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Creating a Works Cited Page

Using Sources

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My instructor says I need to use MLA format when creating a Works Cited page.

What is that?

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MLA Format MLA stands for Modern Language

Association. MLA format, developed by the Modern

Language Association, provides the style most instructors in the humanities require for papers.

There are other formats that can be used, such as APA (American Psychological Association) or the Chicago Manual of Style. Each format has its own set of rules.

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A Works Cited page is a listing of all the bibliographies (sources) that you used in composing a written piece of work.

What?

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Why?• To give credit to the author of your research

• To allow your reader to look up further details about your research

How?• Maintain bibliographies for each of the sources you use to

complete your research• Alphabetize your bibliographies• Type your bibliographies in the form of a list• Use a hanging indent for each bibliography

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Hanging Indent

•A hanging indent is when the second line of a bibliography is indented. Look at the example below

Georges, Henry. How to Fix a Motorcycle. New York: Princeton Publishing Co, 1990.

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General Rules for Works Cited Pages

in MLA Format

Double space everything on a Works Cited page.

Center the title Works Cited (no bold, italics, or underlining) and place it at the top of the page.

Use a “hanging indent” after the first line of each entry.

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OK: so what does it look like?

“Hanging”

Indent

CenteredTitle

Everything is double-

spaced, and there are no line spaces

between entries.

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General Rules forWorks Cited Entries

The author is usually first in a Works Cited entry, followed by the source’s title(s) and publication information.

Place the titles of smaller works (articles, short stories, book chapters, poems, songs) in quotation marks.

Italicize the titles of larger works (books, journals, magazines, newspapers, and films).

Capitalize the first letter of each word in titles (except articles, short prepositions, or conjunctions).

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Works CitedType the words Works Cited, centered at the top of the page. Remember to capitalize W and C.

Alberts, Jennifer. Cats. Atlanta: Southern Printing Press, Inc., 2003.

Banks, Bethany. The World of Mammals. New York: Scholastic Press, 1999.

Smith, Jeffrey. Domesticated Pets. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Press, 1997.

Zelensky, James. How to Train Your Cat. Columbus: Books Are Us Printing, 1995.

Remember to alphabetize each bibliographies

Remember to use a hanging indent

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More Rules for a Works Cited Page

Include publication medium in each citation. (Tell if it is Print or Web)

All Web sources need two dates: 1. the date that the Web page was last updated and 2. the date the information was accessed from the Internet.

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Works Cited Entryfor a Book

The ideal context for identity

formation is “a supportive and

respectful family” (Levine 169).

Works Cited

Levine, Madeleine, Ph.D. See No Evil: A Guide to Protecting Our Children

from Media Violence. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998. Print.

In-text Citation

Works Cited Entry

Wow! Look at the connection!

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Works Cited Entryfor a Periodical

A graphic example is the series of school shootings that have occurred in recent

years—the most recent occurred on March 21, 2005, at Red Lake High School on

an Indian reservation in Minnesota, where a seventeen-year-old male, who had just

killed his grandparents, shot and killed five students, a teacher and a security guard,

wounded many others and then turned the gun on himself (Wilgoren A-1).

Works Cited

Wilgoren, Jodi. “Shooting Rampage by Student Leaves 10 Dead on

Reservation.” New York Times 22 Mar. 2005, sec. 1: A-1+. Print.

In-text Citation

Works Cited Entry

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Works Cited Entry for a Web Site

Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Johnson spent seventeen years

recording the viewing habits of children in 707 families in Upstate New

York and found that the ones “who watched one to three hours of television

each day . . . were 60% more likely to be involved in assaults and fights as

those who watched less TV” (“Research”).

Works Cited

“Research on the Effects of Media Violence.” Media Awareness Network.

2005. Web. 12 Mar. 2005

In-text Citation

Works Cited Entry

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Hmm… what if I am using something else as a research source?

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Additional Research Sources

Lecture or Speech Chapter in a Book CD-ROM Email Interview Television or Film Advertisement

Works Cited

Alberts, Jennifer. Cats. Atlanta: Southern Printing Press, Inc., 2003.

Banks, Bethany. The World of Mammals. New York: Scholastic Press, 1999.

Smith, Jeffrey. Domesticated Pets. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Press, 1997.

Zelensky, James. How to Train Your Cat. Columbus: Books Are Us Printing, 1995.

Pop-Quiz TimeWhat is a Works Cited Page?

Where do you place the words Works Cited on the page?

How do you organize each bibliography?

What type of indent do you use?

Pop-Quiz TimeWhat is a Works Cited Page?

A page listing all bibliographies

Where do you place the words Works Cited on the page?

Centered at the top of the page

How do you organize each bibliography?

Alphabetical—according to the first word in each bib.

What type of indent do you use?

Hanging Indent

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Pop-Quiz Cont.

Examine the next slide. What is wrong with the Words Cited page?

WORKS cited

1. Alberts, Jennifer. Cats. Atlanta: Southern Printing Press, Inc., 2003.

2. Zelensky, James. How to Train Your Cat. Columbus: Books Are Us Printing, 1995.

3. Smith, Jeffrey. Domesticated Pets. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Press, 1997.

4. Banks, Bethany. The World of Mammals. New York: Scholastic Press, 1999.

WORKS cited

1. Alberts, Jennifer. Cats. Atlanta: Southern Printing Press, Inc., 2003.

2. Zelensky, James. How to Train Your Cat. Columbus: Books Are Us Printing, 1995.

3. Smith, Jeffrey. Domesticated Pets. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Press, 1997.

4. Banks, Bethany. The World of Mammals. New York: Scholastic Press, 1999.

Works Cited should not be underlined.

Only the W and C should be capitalized.

Each bibliography should NOT be numbered.

3. Each bibliography needs to be alphabetized.

Each bibliography needs to use a hanging indent.

Works Cited

Alberts, Jennifer. Cats. Atlanta: Southern Printing Press, Inc., 2003.

Print

Banks, Bethany. The World of Mammals. New York: Scholastic Press,

1999. Print

“Research on the Effects of Media Violence.” Media Awareness Network.

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September 2010. Web.

Smith, Jeffrey. Domesticated Pets. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Press,

1997. Print

Zelensky, James. How to Train Your Cat. Columbus: Books Are Us

Printing, 1995. Print