MLA Style Tip Sheet for Work Cited Page

MLA Style Tip Sheet for Work Cited Page Double space the entire page, both between and within entries. Use a hanging indent if the entry is more than one line. (Format, Paragraph, Indention/Special, Hanging, By 0.5 ) Indicate the medium of publication (material type) Print, Web, DVD, etc. Alphabetize your reference list by the authors last names. If there is no author, list the title first, and alphabetize the source by the title. If the title begins with a number, alphabetize as though the number were spelled out. (9 Short Stories would be alphabetized as though it were Nine Short Stories). Titles of short stories, chapters of books, or magazine articles: Use quotation marks. Capitalize important words (not prepositions, a, an, the, etc., except at the beginning of the title). End with a period inside the quotation marks. Titles of books, journals, or magazines: Italicize the title Capitalize important words (not prepositions, a, an, the, etc., except at the beginning of the title). End with a period. Title within a title If the title within a larger title is normally in quotes, retain the quotes. Use single quotes on the interior title if the main title is in quotes: New Perspectives on Poe s The Raven. (article about a poem) If the title within a larger title is normally in italics: If the larger title is in quotes, retain the italics on the title within: The Saint as a Young Man: A Reappraisal of The Catcher in the Rye. (article about a book) If the larger title is in italics, use regular type for the title within; do not use italics or quotes: Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Catcher in the Rye (book about a book) Abbreviations (see section 7 in the MLA Handbook for more): Ed. or Eds. Editor or Editors (used before the editor(s) name(s)) ed. or eds. editor or editors (used after the editor(s) names(s)) ed. edition Vol. Volume (as in Vol. 5) vols. volumes (as in 5 vols.) N.p. or n.p. no place of publication or no publisher n.d. no date of publication Most common abbreviations can be capitalized without using periods (CD, DVD, CD-R, USA, etc.) Initials should be capitalized with periods and spaces between the letters (J. R. R. Tolkein). Use U and P for university press publishers. (Ohio State UP, U of Georgia P) Online resources: Include the web addresses (URL) if the teacher requests them. Place the URL in angled brackets at the end of the citation: Haws, Jeff. Eagles, Wildcats take to National Stage: Games are Precursors for State Tournament. Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Cox Media Group, 18 Jan. 2007. Web. 12 Feb. 2007. <http://www.ajc.com/search>. If the URL is too long to fit on one line, break after a slash or a dot by inserting a space. Do not insert a hyphen: <http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/printzaward/printz,_michael_l Award. htm> If your word processing program automatically turns the URL into a link (blue, underlined), click Edit and Undo to remove the link, or highlight the link, right click, select Remove Hyperlink. [Reference: MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009. Print.]

MLA Style Samples of Bibliographic References Books: Book with one author: author: title of book city of last name first in italics publication publisher date medium Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York: Knopf, 1992. Print. Book with two authors: Dean, Ruth, and Melissa Thompson. Women of the Middle Ages. San Diego: Lucent, 2003. Print. Book, revised or edition other than first edition. Add revision or edition number after book title: Aldrin, Buzz. The Return. 2nd ed. New York: Forge, 2000. Print. Book with an editor if there is no author: Hinman, Charlton, ed. The Harlem Renaissance. New York: Norton, 1994. Print. Book with an author and an editor: Frye, Northrop. Northrop Frye on Shakespeare. Ed. Robert Sandler. New Haven: Yale UP, 1986. Print. Introduction: Doctorow, E. L. Introduction. Sister Carrie. By Theodore Dreiser. New York: Bantam, 1982. vii-xvii. Print. Anthology, Collection, or Compilation: Original article/chapter (not a reprint) in a collection of articles by different authors. (American Writers, British Writers, Dictionary of Literary Biography, etc.) If the article is from a book in a multivolume set, include the volume number of the book after the editor. article author: title of article last name first in quotation marks title of book - in italics editor volume Foster, Richard. Norman Mailer. American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies. Ed. Leonard Unger. Vol. 3. city of pub. Publisher date page(s) medium New York: Scribner s, 1974. 26-49. Print. Anthology, Collection, or Compilation: Reprinted article/chapter in a collection of articles by different authors. The articles were previously printed in another source. (CLC, TCLC, NCLC, SC, 20 th Century Interpretations, Twentieth Century Views, Modern Critical Views, etc.) Reprinted article/chapter in a single volume or in a multivolume set: Cite the original source. Indicate that the article is a reprint (Rpt. in). Cite the book in which you found the article. If the source is a multivolume set, place the volume number after the editor s name. To determine if the original source was a book or a journal: Book citations have publishers and the date is generally a year. Journal citations do not list publishers, and the date may include a month or quarter. Reprinted journal article: article author title of article original source volume. reprinted current source last name first in quotation marks title of journal - in italics issue date page(s) in title of book - in italics Gardner, John. John Knowles. The Southern Review 16.1 (1969): 127-29. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary editor volume city publ. date page(s) medium Criticism. Ed. Carolyn Riley. Vol. 4. Detroit: Gale, 1971. 271-76. Print. Reprinted book excerpt: Burgess, Anthony. The Novel Now: A Guide to Contemporary Fiction. N.p.: Norton, 1967. 184-87. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Carolyn Riley. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1973. 206. Print. Miller, James E., Jr. Boats Against the Current. F. Scott Fitzgerald, His Art and His Technique. New York: New York UP, 1964. 105-126. Rpt. in Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Great Gatsby. Ed. Ernest Lockridge. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice, 1968. 61-69. Print.

Gale For Students series (Novels for Students, Poetry for Students, Shakespeare for Students, etc.): Text not attributed to a particular author (Themes, Style, etc.): The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen. Vol.1. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 8-9. Print. Criticism written especially for the For Students series: James, Pearl. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 8-9. Print. Criticism reprinted in the For Students series from a journal: Baumbach, Jonathan. The Saint as a Young Man: A Reappraisal of The Catcher in the Rye. Modern Language Quarterly 25.4 (1964): 461-72. Rpt. in Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 133-36. Print. Criticism reprinted in the For Students series from a book: Adams, Timothy Dow. Richard Wright: Wearing the Mask. Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography. U of North Carolina P, 1990. 69-83. Rpt. in Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 59-61. Print. General and subject encyclopedias: Encyclopedia with a signed article: Davis, Judy. Fawn. Collier s Encyclopedia. 18th ed. 1969. Print. Encyclopedia with an unsigned article: Georgia. The World Book Encyclopedia. 1994 ed. Print. Subject encyclopedia: Ore, Oysgein. James Drew. Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Ed. Charles Coulston Gillispie. Vol. 1. New York: Scribner s, 1970. 12-17. Print. Periodicals: Note: If the article is printed on consecutive pages, list the page numbers as you normally would (2-5). If the article is printed on non-consecutive pages, list the first page, followed by a plus sign (2+). Article from a monthly, weekly, or biweekly magazine: title of article author title of article magazine last name first in quotation marks in italics date page(s) medium Davis, Curtis. Duke and his Band. Ebony 4 Oct. 1992: 56-57. Print. If the article is from a scholarly journal, add volume # and issue # after journal title and put year s date in parenthesis. article author title of article volume. last name first in quotation marks title of journal - in italics issue date page(s) medium Gardner, John. John Knowles. The Southern Review 16.1 (1969): 127-29. Print. Article from a daily newspaper, no author: Cease-fire Broken in Ivory Coast. Atlanta Journal-Constitution 5 Nov. 2004: A3. Print. Article from a daily newspaper, with an author: Herman, Kevin. Bush to Spend Political Capital. Atlanta Journal-Constitution 5 Nov. 2004: A1+. Print. Audiovisual: Holiday, Billie. God Bless the Child. Rec. 9 May 1941. The Essence of Billie Holiday. Columbia, 1991. CD. Hudson, Jennifer, perf. And I Am Telling You I m Not Going. Dreamgirls: Music from the Motion Picture. Sony BMG, 2006. MP3 file. Dances with Wolves. Dir. Kevin Costner. Perf. Kevin Costner, Mary McConnell, and Graham Green. 1990. Orion, 1991. DVD. (or Videocassette.) Campaign Finance. Narr. Steve Kroft. Sixty Minutes. CBS. 28 Nov. 2010. Television.

Internet: Basic Website: author: article title website name date updated/ last name first in quotes in italics publisher published medium date accessed. Skidmore, Joel. Apollo. Mythweb. Fleet Gazelle, 30 July 2010. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. <http://www.mythweb.com/gods/apollo.html>. Place the title of a single web page that is within a website in quotation marks. Place the name of the overall website in italics. If no author, start with title of article. If no publisher, put N.p. If no date published/updated, put n.d. Include the web addresses (URL) if the teacher requests them. A rule of thumb could be to include the URL for sites from search engines (Google), but not for subscription databases provided by the school, such as Gale, SIRS, CultureGrams, Pro/Con, and GALILEO. Place the URL in angled brackets at the end of the citation. Article from electronic version of newspaper or popular magazine or from news website, available by search: Haws, Jeff. Eagles, Wildcats take to National Stage: Games are Precursors for State Tournament. Atlanta Journal- Constitution. Cox Media Group, 18 Jan. 2007. Web. 12 Feb. 2007. Tyre, Peg. Standardized Tests in College? Newsweek. Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2007. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. Oppmann, Patrick. Exploring the Anti-Social Side of Social Media. CNN.com. Cable News Network, 22 Nov. 2010, Web. 23 Nov. 2010. ebooks: (Look within the ebooks on the websites for citation information for Gale and Salem ebooks.) Give complete citation information for the book, then the name of the database (italicized), the medium of publication (Web), and the date accessed. Macbeth." Shakespeare for Students: Critical Interpretations of Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry. Ed. Anne Marie Hacht. 2nd ed. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 2007. 435-468. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. Emsley, Sarah. "Pride and Prejudice and the Beauty of Justice." Critical Insights: Jane Austen. Ed. Jack Lynch. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2010. Salem Literature. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. Truman, Harry S. "Harry S. Truman s Statement Announcing the Use of the A-Bomb on Hiroshima: Document Text." Milestone Documents of American Leaders. Ed. Paul Finkelman. 4 vols. Dallas, TX: Schlager Group, 2009. Salem History. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. Databases: Use the information that the databases provide to complete the citation. Be sure to follow the proper format. The citation format provided may vary depending on whether or not the article is also available in print. If the database indicates the article is also in print, give complete citation information for the book or journal article, followed by the name of the database (italicized), the publication medium (Web), and the date of access. "The Historical Context of Macbeth." EXPLORING Shakespeare. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Web. 8 Nov. 2010. Anderson, Jill E. "Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)." American Eras: The Reform Era and Eastern U.S. Development, 1815-1850. Ed. Gerald J. Prokopowicz. Vol. 5. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Discovering Collection. Web. 8 Nov. 2010. Logan, William. "Berryman at Shakespeare." New Criterion 17.9 (1999): 68. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. Web. 23 Nov. 2010. Sanders, Mark. "Selected Poems of Langston Hughes." Magill s Choice: American Ethnic Writers (2000): Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. Web. 23 Nov. 2010. Herva,Vesa-Pekka. "Maps and Magic in Renaissance Europe." Journal of Material Culture 15.3 (2010): 323-343. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. Nakashima, Ellen. "U.S. Seeks Ways to Wiretap the Internet." Washington Post. 28 Sep 2010: A.4. SIRS Researcher. Web. 19 Nov 2010. [Reference: MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009. Print.]

(sample work cited page) Student s Name and Page Number Works Cited Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York: Knopf, 1992. Print. Aldrin, Buzz. The Return. 2nd ed. New York: Forge, 2000. Print. Anderson, Jill E. "Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)." American Eras: The Reform Era and Eastern U.S. Development, 1815-1850. Ed. Gerald J. Prokopowicz. Vol. 5. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Discovering Collection. Web. 8 Nov. 2010. Davis, Curtis. Duke and his Band. Ebony 4 Oct. 1992: 56-57. Print. Dean, Ruth, and Melissa Thompson. Women of the Middle Ages. San Diego: Lucent, 2003. Print. Foster, Richard. Norman Mailer. American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies. Ed. Leonard Unger. Vol. 3. New York: Scribner s, 1974. 26-49. Print. Gardner, John. John Knowles. The Southern Review 16.1 (1969): 127-29. Print. Georgia. The World Book Encyclopedia. 1994 ed. Print. Hinman, Charlton, ed. The Harlem Renaissance. New York: Norton, 1994. Print. "The Historical Context of Macbeth." EXPLORING Shakespeare. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Web. 8 Nov. 2010. Holiday, Billie. God Bless the Child. Rec. 9 May 1941. The Essence of Billie Holiday. Columbia, 1991. CD. James, Pearl. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 8-9. Print. Miller, James E., Jr. Boats Against the Current. F. Scott Fitzgerald, His Art and His Technique. New York: New York UP, 1964. 105-126. Rpt. in Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Great Gatsby. Ed. Ernest Lockridge. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice, 1968. 61-69. Print. Oppmann, Patrick. Exploring the Anti-Social Side of Social Media. CNN.com. Cable News Network, 22 Nov. 2010, Web. 23 Nov. 2010. <http://www.cnn.com/2010/tech/social.media/11/22/social. media.isolation.project/index.html?iref=allsearch>. Skidmore, Joel. Apollo. Mythweb. Fleet Gazelle, 30 July 2010. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. <http://www.mythweb.com/gods/apollo.html>.