THE DREADED WORKS CITED PAGEFollow along on your note sheet!

Keep in Mind—The works cited page…

Should always appear as its own page Should have 1 inch margins Should be Times New Roman, Double

Spaced, Size 12 Should have a page header (Last name

page number) Should be in alphabetical order Should have the words works cited

centered at the top of the page…NO bold or underline

Remember If the citation is more than one line, then

all lines after the first need to be indented one tab.

Book: One AuthorLast name, First Name. Title in Italics. City of Publication: Publishing House, Year of

Publication. Medium.

Example--Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin, 1987. Print.

Book: More than one author The first author always follows the

pattern: last name, first name The subsequent authors appear in first

name last name format ALWAYS list the authors in the order they

appear on the book If more than three (3) authors are

present, then list the first author followed by the phrase et al. There is always a period after the al and

never one after the et

Book: More than one author Examples--Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn, 2000. Print.

Wysocki, Anne Frances, et al. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Logan: Utah State UP, 2004. Print.

Book: Two or more books by the same author

List works alphabetically by title Ignore articles a, an, and the

Provide the author’s last name, first name for the first entry only

For each subsequent entry use three dashes and a period

Book: Two or more books by the same author

Example--Palmer, William J. Dickens and New

Historicism. New York: St. Martin's, 1997. Print.

---. The Films of the Eighties: A Social History. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1993. Print.

Book: Book by a corporate author or organization

List the corporate author or organization in the spot where the author’s name would appear

Example--American Allergy Association. Allergies in Children. New York: Random, 1998. Print.

Book: No author List alphabetically by the title of the

book.

Example--Encyclopedia of Indiana. New York: Somerset, 1993. Print.

Article: Magazine Author’s last name, Author’s first name.

“Title of Article in quotation marks.” Title of Magazine in Italics Day Month Year: page number. Medium.

Example--Poniewozik, James. "TV Makes a Too-Close

Call." Time 20 Nov. 2000: 70-71. Print.

Article: Newspaper Cite just as you would a magazine, but notice the

page numbers are different for a newspaper If it is a local newspaper, then include the city and

state name in brackets

Example--Brubaker, Bill. "New Health Center Targets County's

Uninsured Patients." Washington Post 24 May 2007: LZ01. Print.

Behre, Robert. "Presidential Hopefuls Get Final Crack at Core of S.C. Democrats." Post and Courier [Charleston, SC] 29 Apr. 2007: A11. Print.

Article: Scholarly Journal Always provide the issues number when

possible

Author’s last name, Author’s first name "Title of Article in quotations." Title of Journal in Italics Volume. Issue (Year): pages. Medium of publication.

Example--Bagchi, Alaknanda. "Conflicting Nationalisms: The

Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta Devi's Bashai Tudu." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 15.1 (1996): 41-50. Print.

Electronic: Website MLA no longer requires the URLEditor, author, or compiler name (if

available). Name of Site. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation (if available). Medium. Date of access.

Example--The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing

Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, 2008. Web. 23 Apr. 2008.

Electronic: Website Page To list a specific page from a website,

add the title of the webpage in quotations

Example-- (Note: this example has no author)

"How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow. Demand Media, 2008. Web. 24 Feb. 2009.

Electronic: Database Cite these just as you would print material

Be sure to follow the correct format! Be sure to include the database name in

italics before the medium and also include the date of access.

Example--Langhamer, Claire. “Love and Courtship in

Mid-Twentieth-Century England.” Historical Journal 50.1 (2007): 173-96. ProQuest. Web. 27 May 2009.

Other: Personal Interview A personal interview is one that you

conduct yourself

Name of person interviewed. Personal Interview. Date.

Example--Purdue, Pete. Personal interview. 1 Dec.

2000.

Other: Recorded Film or Movie List by title (italics)Title in italics. Dir. Director’s name. Perf.

Performers names if relevant. Distributor. Release Year. Medium.

Example--Ed Wood. Dir. Tim Burton. Perf. Johnny

Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette. Touchstone, 1994. DVD.

Works Cited“Purdue OWL: MLA formatting and Style

Guide.” The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, 2013. Web. 11 Feb. 2013.

In-text Citations Three types of in-text citations:

Direct quote Paraphrase Summary

Direct Quote A direct quote is a word for word retelling of a

particular statement Quotation marks are used to indicate a direct

quote Example: “Only 6% of Americans donate blood.”

(“Why Donate”) Notice, the in-text citation matches what is on

my Works Cited page. If I reference the article title in my sentence,

then I do not need to place a citation at the end of the sentence. Example: According to the article “Why

Donate Blood,” only “6% of Americans donate blood.”

Direct Quote (con’t.) If the statement I am quoting has a page

number, make sure you indicate that! For instance, if I found information in a book or journal, I would place that information in my citation.

Example: “Love and courtship were drastically different in the 1900s” (Langhamer 173).

Paraphrase A paraphrase is written in your own

words. Essentially, you are taking a component

of your article and writing it in your own words, but the main idea comes from your source.

This will NOT be in quotations.

Summary A summary looks at an article or source

as a whole and sums the whole article in a much shorter version than the original

This is also in your own words