citing your sources you will create a list of the resources you used for your research there is a...
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Rules to remember Title this page: Works Cited It is centered on your page and you skip two lines and begin your citations The works are in alphabetical order Skip one line between citations First line of each different citation is at the margin, second, third, fourth…lines are indented (reverse indention)TRANSCRIPT
Citing your sources• You will create a list of the resources you
used for your research• There is a pattern! You are using MLA
style, but there are many other styles• We will cite a book together, then you will
cite one on your own
Example:Works Cited
Braswell, Karen. I Have Traveled Through Time. Las Cruces: Harbrow
Publications, 1999. Print.
Wolfe, Emerson. What are you Driving? El Paso: Mills and Luna Association,
2007. Print.
Rules to remember
• Title this page:Works Cited
It is centered on your page and you skip two lines and begin your citations
• The works are in alphabetical order• Skip one line between citations• First line of each different citation is at the
margin, second, third, fourth…lines are indented (reverse indention)
Author’s name:
Gibaldi, Joseph.
author’s last name, first name.
• Two authors• List first author, and second author.Webber, Elizabeth, and Mike Feinstilber.
Italicize the title of the book, use capital letters appropriately:
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.
Editions
If your book has an edition number:• Add information after the title• Example: 3rd ed.
6th ed.Use Rev. ed. for “Revised edition”Use Abr. ed. for “Abridged edition”Then continue with the city of publication…
City of publication (not state): and Publisher,
New York: The Modern Language Association of America,
After listing the publisher, place a comma
Copyright year, check for the most recent year:It looks like 2003 but if you keep looking…
Here a more recent date is on second page
Multiple years listed: go with most recent
Multiple copyright dates:select the most recent
Other things to look at:
Information is listed within first two/three pages
Title and Author are on cover,titles are capitalized, articles and
prepositions are not
This book has been published in many cities
Always list first city listed
List up to two authors, more than that refer to the formula
Always cite your sources. Give credit where credit is due.
Check your…
• paper for the correct punctuation• periods in correct places• capitalization• skip lines between each citation• alphabetizing of all citations • reverse indention• correct style for book, internet and
database, they vary
• I believe in you, you can cite correctly!
• You are good looking and smart too!
• The end!
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. New
York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2004. Print.