Your Works Cited List MLA



Formatting an MLA Bibliography

The bibliography should appear at the end of your paper. It provides the information necessary for a reader to locate and be able to read any sources you cite in your work. Each source you cite in your writing must appear in your bibliography.

Format

• Your bibliography should be the last page of your work. It is not a separate document; therefore, the margins, header, and footer will be like all the other pages of your project.

• Center the title “Bibliography” on the page (with no quotation marks, underlining, etc.)

• Make the first line of each entry in your bibliography align left with the margin. Subsequent lines in each entry should be indented one-half inch. This is known as a hanging indentation or reverse indentation. (See example bibliography on next page.)

• Double space all entries, with no skipped spaces between entries.

• Keep in mind that underlining and italics are equivalent; you should select one or the other to use throughout your bibliography (italics looks nicer).

• Alphabetize the list of works cited by the first word in each entry (usually the author's last name).

Basic Rules for Citations

• Authors' names are inverted (last name, first); if a work has more than one author, invert only the first author's name, follow it with a comma, then continue listing the rest of the authors.

• If you have cited more than one work by a particular author, order them alphabetically by title, and use three hyphens in place of the author's name for every entry after the first.

• When an author appears both as the sole author of a text and as the first author of a group, list solo-author entries first.

• If no author is given for a particular work, alphabetize by the title of the piece and use a shortened version of the title for parenthetical citations.

• Capitalize each word in the titles of articles, books, etc.

• Underline or italicize titles of books, journals, magazines, newspapers, and films.

• Use quotation marks around the titles of articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers, titles of short stories, book chapters, poems, and songs.

• If you refer to a journal article, or any source with page numbers, that appeared on pages 225 through 250, list the page numbers on your Bibliography page as 225-50.

• If you're citing an article or a publication that was originally issued in print form but that you retrieved from an online database, you should provide enough information so that the reader can locate the article either in its original print form or retrieve it from the online database. For more about this, see any of the links listed below.

View the sample bibliography on next page and on “A Research Guide for Students,” available at . You can also visit ).

I have tried to include as many different types of citations sources as possible in the example bibliography on the next page. Pay attention to the differences in the sources.

Bibliography

Adams, Paul. "Furious Arafat Is Freed." Globe and Mail [Toronto] 2 May 2002: A1+.

Collins, Ronald K.L., and David M. Skover. The Trials of Lenny Bruce: The Fall and Rise of an

American Icon. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2002.

Continelli, Louise. "A Place for Owls to Heal." Buffalo News 12 Jan. 2003: C2.

"E-Money Slips Quietly into Oblivion." Nikkei Weekly [Tokyo] 22 Jan. 2001: 4.

Gordin, Michael D. "The Science of Vodka." Letter. New Yorker 13 Jan. 2003: 7.

"Ho Chi Minh."  Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2004. . 15 Sept. 2004.

King, Stephen. Black House. New York: Random, 2001.

---. From a Buick 8: A Novel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.

Mitchell, Joni. Both Sides Now. CD. Reprise Records, Time Warner. Dist. Warner Music

Canada, Scarborough, ON, 2000.

"Mug." Def. 2. The New Lexicon Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language.

Canadian ed. 1988.

NASONEX Nasal Spray, Schering. Advertisement. Newsweek. 9 Sept. 2002: 9.

PicoSearch. "Your PicoSearch Account is Reindexed." E-mail to I. Lee. 2 Feb. 2005.

Great Wall of China, Beijing, China. Personal photograph by B. Davenport. 28 Dec. 1996.

Schubach, Erik. "Bugs Bunny." Cartoon. Cartoon World! 1998. 12 Oct. 200.1

Svitil, Kathy A. "Can I Pour You a Pint of Light?" Discover Nov. 2002: 12.

Wolanski, Eric, et al. "Mud, Marine Snow and Coral Reefs." American Scientist Jan.-Feb. 2003:

44-51.

IMPORTANT FORMAT POINTS TO REMEMBER:

• Alphabetical order

• Double spaced

• Reverse indent

• All entries end with a period

• MLA style calls for both the date of publication (or its last update) and the date on which you retrieve the information.

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