MLA Works Cited Worksheet (2009, Seventh Edition)



MLA Works Cited Worksheet (2009, Seventh Edition)

Sample formatting:

Last, First. “Title of the Work.” Title of the Web Site. Ed. First Last. Abr. ed. Publisher or Sponsor of the Site, 7 Apr. 2010. Web. 12 Apr. 2011.

The following information goes IN THE ORDER LISTED BELOW on your works cited page.

|Look for: |Hints: |Examples: |My Source: |

|1. Name of the author, |If no author is given, skip this. |Last, First. | |

|compiler, director, |Corporate author is used when it is clear this |Last, First and First Last. | |

|editor, narrator, |organization or commission wants to take credit for |Last, First, First Last, and First | |

|performer, or translator |writing the piece, but no individual is named. |Last. | |

|of the work | |Association or Commission. | |

| | |Last, First, ed. | |

|2. Title of the Work |Use this if it is clearly part of a larger work |“Title of the Work.” | |

| |Do not use this if it is identical to the Web Site’s |Home page. | |

| |overall title |Introduction. | |

| |May sometimes use a label to be clear if no article |Afterward. | |

| |title is used. | | |

|3. Title of the overall |Look on the actual page for this |Title of the Site. | |

|website |This MAY NOT be skipped! | | |

|(editor or creator if not |This will probably be used very infrequently |Ed. First Last. | |

|already listed) |Use only when the editor or creator is not already | | |

| |listed. | | |

|4. Version or edition used|Assume you are viewing the first edition and do not |2nd ed. | |

| |need to mention that unless the site tells you |Rev. ed. | |

| |differently |Abr. ed. | |

| |Rev. = revised |2008 ed. | |

| |Abr. = Abridged | | |

|5. Publisher or Sponsor of|STRONGLY recommended you find this. What does it say |Publisher, | |

|the site |about your site if you don’t know who’s responsible |N.p., | |

| |for this information? | | |

| |Remember this one gets a comma! | | |

| |N.p. = no publisher | | |

|6. Date of publication |Usually found. |4 Apr. 2009. | |

| |May be a copyright date |June 2009. | |

| |Choose the most specific/accurate date |2009. | |

| |n.d. = no date |n.d. | |

| |abbreviate months | | |

| |Do NOT put date ranges | | |

|7. Medium of publication |Can’t skip this! |Web. | |

|8. Date of access |Can’t skip this! |26 Sept. 2009. | |

|Parenthetical Note |The first thing filled in on the chart goes in the |(Last Name). | |

| |parenthetical note. |(Last Name and Last Name). | |

| |Remember to punctuate appropriately. |(Last Name, Last Name, and Last | |

| |qtd. in is used when the information you want to quote|Name). | |

| |already appears in quotations in your source |(Last Name et al.). | |

| | |(“Title of the Work”). | |

| | |(Title of the Website). | |

| | |(qtd. in Last Name). | |

MLA Internet Citation Organizer

Important notes from the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers Seventh Edition:

“Why do I need to learn MLA style?” It is a question we sometimes hear at the Modern Language Association, and the answer is simple. Every time you write a research paper, you enter into a community of writers and scholars. The disciplines in this community all use conventions—think of the ways chemists, mathematicians, and philosophers use symbols and special terms to transmit information. MLA style represents a consensus among teachers, scholars, and librarians in the fields of language and literature on the conventions for documenting research, and those conventions will help you organize your research paper coherently. By using MLA style, you will direct your readers to the sources you consulted in arriving at your findings, and you will enable them to build on your work (xiii).

While it is tempting to think that every source has only one complete and correct format for its entry in a list of works cited, in truth there are often several options for recording key features of a work. For this reason, software programs that generate entries are not likely to be useful. You may need to improvise when the type of scholarly project or the publication medium of a source is not anticipated by this handbook. Be consistent in your formatting throughout your work. Choose the format that is appropriate to your research paper and that will satisfy your readers’ needs (129).

How to do an MLA Internet citation:

FYI: Print periodicals—newspapers, magazines, journals—appear regularly at fixed intervals (136).

I. Non periodical

A. If the source is only available on the web, use the MLA Works Cited Worksheet

B. If the source is also available in print version, grab a copy of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers Seventh Edition

1. See section 5.5 and follow directions

2. Stop before the citation asks you for the medium of publication and add:

a. The title of the database or website

b. Web

c. Date of access (day month year)

II. Periodical (scholarly journal)

A. If the source is available only on the web, grab a copy of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers Seventh Edition

1. See section 5.4 and follow directions except: Put “n. pag.” if there are not page numbers given

2. Stop before the medium of publication and add:

a. Web

b. Date of access (day month year)

B. If the source is a periodical published in an online database (any of the MeL databases), grab a copy of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers Seventh Edition

1. See section 5.4 and follow directions except: Put “n. pag.” if there are not page numbers given

2. Stop before the citation asks you for the medium of publication and add:

a. The title of the database or website

b. Web

c. Date of access (day month year)

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