Your works cited page

Your Works Cited Page

This is a research paper.

You must show the sources of your information.

Without a Works Cited page, your research and parenthetical citations mean nothing.

Why Do I Need One?

You may have already started your Works Cited page.

If you copied and pasted the MLA citation from a source directly onto a Word document, then you have already started!

Keep those right where they are

What have you already done?

If you have written information about your source onto cards then do the following:

Go to easybib.com or bibme.com and enter the information from the card or list into the website and create citations.

After you have done this for all your sources, save or copy and paste these entries into your Works Cited page.

What about my Source Cards?

Alphabetical Order!!

Example:

Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulations. [...]

Boring Postcards USA. [...]

Burke, Kenneth. A Rhetoric of Motives. [...]

What Order do I Put Them In?

Begin your Works Cited page on a separate page at the end of your research paper.

Label the page Works Cited center the words Works Citedat the top of the page.

Double space all citations, but do not skip spaces between entries.

Indent the second and subsequent lines of citations five spaces so that you create a hanging indent.

List page numbers of sources efficiently, when needed. If you refer to a journal article that appeared on pages 225 through 250, list the page numbers on your Works Cited page as 225-50.

Basic Rules