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Works Cited Info
--A complete list of every source that you make reference to in your project/presentation
--Provides the information necessary for a reader to locate and retrieve any sources cited in
your essay
--Most citations should contain the following basic information:
Author’s name
Title of work
Publication information
-Each followed by a period and 2 spaces!
MLA Formatting and a Works Cited page:
1. alphabetical order by author’s last name or title (whichever comes first)
2. Must have pagination in header (will be its own page and in numerical order with rest of
the paper)
3. “Works Cited” should be typed in center top of paper
4. Don’t number, bullet, or do anything to sources
5. Use hanging indent—format, paragraph, special, hanging
6. DOUBLE SPACE THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT!
7. Every source used for the paper MUST be included in Works Cited and in parenthetical
documentation!
For more info on Works Cited pages, see www.mla.org, your literature book, a grammar handbook, or
owl.english.purdue.edu, OR your SHS agenda!
Thank you to Owl English at Purdue University for providing the majority of this lesson!
www.owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/pp/MLA
http://library.williams.edu/citing/styles/mla.php#online
(used with permission—copyright 2007)
MLA Format for Websites
A reference for a website should follow this model:
Author’s last name, first name. “Title of article.” Name of home website. Date listed, if any, that the
article was published on the site. Type of medium. Date you accessed the article. <URL in angled
brackets>.
Pilgrim, David. "The Brute Caricature." Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia. Ferris State
University. Nov. 2000. Web. 20 May 2009.
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(If your instructor requires it, include the URL immediately following the date of access, a period,
and a space. Enclose the URL in angle brackets (<>), and follow it with a period. For more details
on citing works on the Web, see section 5.6 of the MLA Handbook).
NOTE: You may not have all of the information asked for in the model. In that case, skip to the next
item. Authors are often not given for websites, and the Works Cited entry then begins with the
article title.
Another Example:
Reuben, Paul P. “Chapter 10: Late Twentieth Century--Eudora Welty.” Perspectives in American Literature:
A Research and Reference Guide. 24 July 2001. Web. 9 Nov. 2001
<http://www.csustan.edu/English/reuben/pal/chap10/welty.html>.
NOTE: If the website does not provide the date of publication, use the abbreviation “n.d.” (“no
date”) after the name of the website:
“Job Competencies, Soft Skills and Competency-Based Performance Management.” Corporate
Perspectives, Inc. n.d. Web. 6 Feb. 2002. <http://corporateperspectives.com/cbl.html>.
Note: If a website does not give the author’s name, use the title of the article, which should be
the first item in the Works Cited entry, in your reference. Because your source is electronic, you
need not include page numbers in either the Works Cited entry or the citation. However, if
paragraph or section numbers are present, use them in your citation. It is increasingly becoming
preferred that book titles, journal and magazine titles, etc. are italicized rather than underlined;
underlining is still acceptable, but the advent of online information sometimes makes underlining
confusing. See http://www.mla.org for more information and examples.
FOR OTHER SOURCE NEEDS, PLEASE VISIT THE PURDUE OWL WEBSITE:
www.owl.english.purdue.edu
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Works Cited
“Job Competencies, Soft Skills and Competency-Based Performance Management.” Corporate
Perspectives, Inc. n.d. Web. 6 Feb. 2002. <http://corporateperspectives.com/cbl.html>.
Pilgrim, David. "The Brute Caricature." Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia. Ferris State
University. Nov. 2000. Web. 20 May 2009.
Reuben, Paul P. “Chapter 10: Late Twentieth Century--Eudora Welty.” Perspectives in
American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide. 24 July 2001. Web. 9 Nov. 2001
<http://www.csustan.edu/English/reuben/pal/chap10/welty.html>.
This is what your Works Cited page should look like upon completion. Note that entries are
alphabetized; they are all similar in organization; the entire document is double spaced; the title
is centered and the page number is given in upper right hand corner. DO NOT put a standard
MLA heading on the left hand side. Works Cited pages are always at the end of the
document—thus, we place the pagination in the upper right hand corner.
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Parenthetical Documentation: IN-TEXT Citations
Citing Non-Print or Sources from the Internet
With more and more scholarly work being posted on the Internet, you may have to cite
research you have completed in virtual environments. While many sources on the
Internet should not be used for scholarly work (reference the OWL's Evaluating Sources
of Information resource), some Web sources are perfectly acceptable for research.
When creating in-text citations for electronic, film, or Internet sources, remember that
your citation must reference the source in your Works Cited.
Sometimes writers are confused with how to craft parenthetical citations for electronic
sources because of the absence of page numbers, but often, these sorts of entries do
not require any sort of parenthetical citation at all. For electronic and Internet sources,
follow the following guidelines:
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Include in the text the first item that appears in the Work Cited entry that corresponds
to the citation (e.g. author name, article name, website name, film name).
You do not need to give paragraph numbers or page numbers based on your Web
browser’s print preview function.
Unless you must list the website name in the signal phrase in order to get the reader to
the appropriate entry, do not include URLs in-text. Only provide partial URLs such as
when the name of the site includes, for example, a domain name, like CNN.com or
Forbes.com as opposed to writing out http://www.cnn.com or http://www.forbes.com.
Ex. I wrote the novel The Great Gatsby in the 1929 because I wanted to show the world the
escapism of the roaring twenties (“The Life of F.Scott Fitzgerald”).
OR
In my memoir, “The Life of F.Scott Fitzgerald,” I noted the impact of my novel on a new
generation of readers in the 50’s and 60’s.
Notes: