Works Cited

How Do I Get Started?Mr. Slaby’s

Class 12/5/02

What is a Works Cited page?

• List of all sources you used to write your paper.• Alphabetical by author’s last name.• Last page of your paper.• Protects writer from accusations of plagiarism.• Helps researchers who want to know where to

find more info on the subject.

MLA Handbook for Writers.htm

The book you will use in college.

Helpful Hints

Works Cited

• Title: centered, top of new page

•No quotes, underlining, etc.

First line of citation at margin, Indent next lines 5 spacesCalled a “hanging indent”

Example:

Kitchen, Chris. Eric Lyndros. New

York: Chelsea House, 1989.

Double space all references.

______________ ______________Single Space

_______________

Double Space

______________

Capitals

• Do capitalize: each word in a title of an article, book, etc.• Don’t capitalize: short prepositions, for, about, of, to, or conjunctions, and, but, yet

articles, a, an, the unless it is the first word.

Author’s Names

• Invert (last name, first name)• Work with more than one author:

Invert only first author’s nameput a comma after it, add other author’s

names

Eisenberg, Michael B., and Robert E.

Berkowitz

Correct punctuation & spacing

Underline or Italicize:

• Book Titles• Magazines• Periodicals• Journals• Newspapers• Films

• The Hummingbird House• Newsweek• Psychology Today• Library Journal• Washington Post• Gone with the Wind

Quotations around . . .

• Article Titles• Short Stories• Book chapters

• Poems• Songs• Plays

• “Taming Saddam”• “Gift of the Magi”• “Why are the Olympics

so Popular?”• “Casey at the Bat”• “Star Spangled Banner”• “Samantha Fair”

Works CitedGibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research

Papers. 5th ed. New York: Modern Language

Association of America, 1999.

Kunka, Jennifer. “Using MLA Format.” OWL Online

Writing Lab. Dec. 2000. Purdue University. 3 Dec.

2002. <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/

print/research/r_mla.html>