3. Go to the next line. Make sure the cursor isn t centered anymore. 4. If you saved your Annotated Bibliography file, open it. Highlight/copy the

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1 Works Cited Page 1. After the last paragraph of your essay, hit ENTER until you get to the top of a new page. 2. You must entitle the new page Works Cited (centered).

2 3. Go to the next line. Make sure the cursor isn t centered anymore. 4. If you saved your Annotated Bibliography file, open it. Highlight/copy the source citations for only the articles that you used in your essay and paste them under Works Cited in your research paper. Student Example: Works Cited Henderson, Harry. Perspectives and Issues. Power of the News Media. New York: Facts on File, Student Resources in Context. Web. 13 Nov

3 5. If you didn t save your Annotated Bibliography file, you will have to retype the source citations or cut and paste them from the articles. 6. BE CAREFUL! The Works Cited page is where many students lose the most points! If you kept your graded Working Bibliography (your old list of sources), get it out and follow the corrections I made for the sources that you used in your essay, so you don t make the same mistakes on your Works Cited page. Follow the formats on the next slides, especially if you don t have your graded Working Bibliography, or if you used any sources not on that list.

4 If you got the article from a website found through Google (no more than three), you must type the citation information like this: Author(s) if given (name reversed, comma between). Article Title in Quotation Marks with First Letters of Words Capitalized. Website Title (this should never be Google because Google is only the search engine that took you to the website) Underlined with First Letters of Words Capitalized (if none given, put the words Home page). Sponsor of the Site (if none given, skip to the next part), and last update (if no date given, put the letters n.d.). The word Web. Day Month (abbreviated) Year that you accessed the article. Student Example: Kehoe, Bobby. Secrets of the Preseli Blue Stones. Stonehenge Universe. TechMedia Network, 22 Oct Web. 11 Nov

5 If you got the article from the News section of the database or the Magazine section, you must type the citation information like this: Author(s) if given (name reversed, comma between). Article Title in Quotation Marks with First Letters of Words Capitalized. Newspaper or Magazine Title Underlined with First Letters of Words Capitalized Day Month (abbreviated) Year of the newspaper or magazine: page. Name of Database Underlined with First Letters of Words Capitalized. The word Web. Day Month (abbreviated) Year that you accessed the article. Student Example: Jefferson, Steve. Senate Passes the Pro-Abortion Mikulski Amendment. Life Science Weekly 15 Dec. 2009: 23. Student Resources in Context. Web. 17 Dec

6 If you got the article from the Academic Journals section of the database, you must type the citation information like this: Author(s) if given (name reversed, comma between). Article Title in Quotation Marks with First Letters of Words Capitalized. Academic Journal Title Underlined with First Letters of Words Capitalized Volume.Issue (Year of publication in parentheses): pages. Name of Database Underlined with First Letters of Words Capitalized. The word Web. Day Month (abbreviated) Year that you accessed the article. Student Example: McCrery, James, and John Wickey. Abortion Diminishes Us All. First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life 19.8 (2009): 3+. Student Resources in Context. Web. 17 Oct

7 If the citation information uses the abbreviation Ed. (for editor), or it gives the name of a city, or it uses the word Press, that means it is from a book, not a newspaper, magazine, nor journal. You must type the citation information like this only for a book from the databases: Author(s) if given (name reversed, comma between). Article Title in Quotation Marks with First Letters of Words Capitalized. Book Title Underlined with First Letters of Words Capitalized. Editor s Name in normal order. City: Publishing Company, Year. Name of Database Underlined with First Letters of Words Capitalized. The word Web. Day Month (abbreviated) Year that you accessed the article. Student Example: Harmon, Amy. Aborting a Fetus with a Genetic Disorder Is a Personal Decision. Opposing Viewpoints: Genetic Disorders. Ed. Katherine Swarts. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 17 Dec

8 7. Do not number your list. Instead, list the sources in alphabetical order by authors last names and by first word of article titles if author not given. Do not just stick sources that have no author at the front or the end of the list. You ll have to cut and paste them where they belong to follow the alphabetical flow. For example, if you have a source with the last name Anderson, another source with the last name Christiansen, and an authorless source with the first word in the article title Big, you ll have to cut and paste the source starting with Big in between the sources by Anderson and Christiansen.

9 8. The whole page must have hanging indent : - All lines are indented EXCEPT for the first line of each source. - No extra space between each source. They are double-spaced EVENLY down the page. Works Cited Stallone 6 - You ll have to do hanging indent manually by putting the cursor at the end of the first line of each source, hitting BACKSPACE, ENTER, and then TAB.

10 9. Read through your essay. Every time you mention an author or article in the essay, check to make sure it is listed in your Works Cited page. If it isn t, add it to the list. If the list has a source NOT mentioned in the essay, remove that source from the list. The list must ONLY include the sources that you mentioned in your essay.