MLA Works Cited: Websites (NOT CHS Databases like Opposing Viewpoints) Citation Formula for a Website: Author (if known). Full Title of the Work in Quotation Marks. Full Title of the Complete Work (if applicable) Italicized. Publisher or Sponsor (if not available use N.p.), Date of Publication (if not available use n.d.)web. Date of your visit. Note: Cite authors on websites in the same format as you would cite them for a book. Website Example with No Author First new stem cell lines approved for funding under Obama guidelines. CNN.com. Cable News Network, 2 Dec. 2009. Web. Website Example with One Author Kelley, Raina. Facebook Made Me Do It: Seven lies we tell ourselves about social networking. Newsweek.com. Harman Newsweek, LLC., 20 Feb. 2009. Web. Website Example with Two Authors Duffy, Michael, and Mark Thompson. What We Can Learn from Flight 253. Time.com. Time Inc., 30 Dec. 2009. Web. Website Example with Three Authors Johnson, Kevin, Jack Gillum and William M. Welch. Rep. Giffords still critical after deadly shooting spree. USAToday.com. USA Today, 9 Jan. 2011. Web. Website Example with MORE than Three Authors Carbone, Nick, et. al. Time-Worn Tabby: At 39, Is Lucy the Oldest Cat in the World? Time.com. Time Inc., 9 Jan. 2011. Web. Ms. Salona Page 1 of 10 Research Paper, 2011
Website Example with Corporate Author National Institutes of Health. Research Ethics and Stem Cells. Stem Cell Information. National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 24 Mar. 2009. Web. Another Website Example with Corporate Author Governors Highway Safety Association. Cell Phone Driving Laws: January 2010. GHSA.com. Governors Highway Safety Association, 2010. Web. Website Example with Associated Press as author. (Do not include Associated Press in entry.) Koreas Exchange Fire Near Disputed Sea Border. FoxNews.com. Fox News Network, LLC., 27 Jan. 2010. Web. Help Locating Website Information for Your Works Cited Entries: 1. The author is listed at the top of bottom of an article. Sometimes, no author is provided. 2. The Full Title of the Work in Quotation Marks is the title of your article, not the title of the website itself. Examples include: What We Can Learn from Flight 253 ; First new stem cell lines approved for funding under Obama guidelines ; Cell Phone Driving Laws: January 2010 ; Koreas Exchange Fire Near Disputed Sea Border 3. The name of the website/ full title of complete work is typically listed at the top of the website. Some examples include: FoxNews.com, Time.com, IndyStar.com, Stem Cell Research. 4. Almost always, the publisher or sponsor of the website is listed at the very bottom of the webpage. Some examples include: Time Inc.; National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Fox News Network, LLC.; Governors Highway Safety Association; USA Today. If you cannot find a publisher, type N.p. 5. The date of publication is either listed near the title, author or at the bottom of the page. Sometimes you will only find a year or sometimes just a month and a year. That s okay. If no date is provided, type n.d. in the appropriate place. 6. The day you printed out the article is the date you visited the site. Ms. Salona Page 2 of 10 Research Paper, 2011
CHS Opposing Viewpoints Reference Databases Online/ Invisible Web Structure for an Opposing Viewpoints Citation: Author (if known): Full Title of Work in Quotation Marks. Full Title of the Complete Work Italicized. Editor (if provided). Publication City: Publisher (if provided), publication date. page numbers (if available). Name of Reference Database Italicized. Medium of publication (Web). Carmel High School Media Center, IN. date of access. Opposing Viewpoints Database Works Cited Citations Baker, Peter. "Impassioned Senate debate on arms treaty." New York Times 17 Dec. 2010: A8(L). Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. Carmel High School Media Center, IN. Boyle, Patrick. "Teen Curfews Create a Sense of Safety." Youth Today (Nov. 2006): 36-38. Rpt. in Are Teen Curfews Effective? Ed. Roman Espejo. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2009. At Issue. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. Carmel High School Media Center, IN. Brisbane, Arthur S. "Names in the news, before they can read." New York Times 14 Nov. 2010: 8(L). Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. Carmel High School Media Center, IN. "Human Cloning Will Be Accepted When It Is Safe and Effective." The Ethics of Cloning. Ed. David M. Haugen, Susan Musser, and Kacy Lovelace. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2009. At Issue. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. Carmel High School Media Center, IN. "Justice for juveniles." America 5 July 2010: 5. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. Carmel High School Media Center, IN. "Juveniles Should Not Be Placed in Adult Prisons." America's Prisons. Ed. Noah Berlatsky. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2010. Opposing Viewpoints. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. Carmel High School Media Center, IN. Zakaria, Fareed. "We're Safer Than We Think." Newsweek 20 Sept. 2010: 20. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. Carmel High School Media Center, IN. Opposing Viewpoints Database MLA Citation Shortcut: 1. Open your Opposing Viewpoints article on Opposing Viewpoints. Simply type the article s title in the Search Box at the top of the Opposing Viewpoints page if you have already printed the article and need to find it again. 2. Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the article. 3. The MLA Works Cited source citation appears at the very bottom of your article directly beneath Source Citation. You can copy and paste it to use as your Works Cited entry. 4. Type Carmel High School Media Center, IN after Web and before your date of access. 5. DO NOT COPY the Document URL or Gale Document Number. Ms. Salona Page 3 of 10 Research Paper, 2011
6. Make sure to highlight and change the font to 12 point, Times New Roman, double-spaced after pasting it onto your Works Cited page. STEP ONE: This is an example of an article from the Opposing Viewpoints Database. STEP TWO: Scroll to the bottom of the Opposing Viewpoints Database article. Under Source Citation, highlight, select and copy the citation. Paste it onto your Work Cited page. Type Carmel High School Media Center, IN. after Web. DO NOT COPY and paste the Document URL or the Gale Document Number beneath the source citation. Ms. Salona Page 4 of 10 Research Paper, 2011
A works cited page lists all the sources that you acknowledged in your paper. It is the last page of your paper and should have your last name in the HEADER (12 pt font, Times New Roman) Only those articles/ sources you referenced in the paper should be included in the works cited. Use 12 point font, Times New Roman, and double space from top to bottom. Guidelines Arrange your sources in alphabetical order by the author's last name. If an entry has two or three authors, use the first author's last name. An entry that has no author should be alphabetized by the first word of the aritcle title, not counting A, An, or The. If you have more than one source by the same author, alphabetize these by their article titles. Capitalize all major words in the titles of books, articles, etc. Begin the first line of each entry at the left margin, and indent succeeding lines of each entry five spaces from the left margin. Double space the entire page, between and within entries. Center the words Works Cited at the top of the page, but don t italicize or underline them. Make sure your spacing is set correctly; otherwise you will have problems. On Word 2007, click on the Home tab. Then, click on the small arrow in the bottom right corner of Paragraph. Make sure your Spacing is set at 0 pt next to Before and After. Also, make sure your line spacing it set at Double. MLA Month Abbreviations: On your Works Cited page, make sure to use these month abbreviations. January Jan. February Feb. March Mar. April Apr. May May June June July July August Aug. September Sept. October Oct. November Nov. December Dec. TURN OVER FOR WORKS CITED PAGE EXAMPLE Ms. Salona Page 5 of 10 Research Paper, 2011
Works Cited Brisbane, Arthur S. "Names in the news, before they can read." New York Times 14 Nov. 2010: 8(L). Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. Carmel High School Media Center, IN. Elias, Marilyn. Is adult prison best for Juveniles? USAToday.com. USA Today, 20 Sept. 2006. Web. "Justice for juveniles." America 5 July 2010: 5. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. Carmel High School Media Center, IN. "Juveniles Should Not Be Placed in Adult Prisons." America's Prisons. Ed. Noah Berlatsky. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2010. Opposing Viewpoints. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. Carmel High School Media Center, IN. Kahn, Huma. Juvenile Justice: Too Young for Life in Prison? ABCNews.com/Politics. ABC News, 12 July 2010. Web. Your last name goes in the HEADER. Make sure it is 12 pt, Times New Roman font Smith Ms. Salona Page 6 of 10 Research Paper, 2011
Parenthetical Citations: After paraphrasing or summarizing information which is not common knowledge or inserting a quotation, you must use parenthetical citations/ documentation. Parenthetical refers to parentheses and documentation refers to the corresponding Works Cited entry. It is also known as an internal citation or parenthetical citation. General Rules: After you have written your Works Cited page, look at the first item in the entry. It will be the author, if you have an author. If not, it will be the title of the article/text. Parenthetical Citation when there is No Author: Some of your sources may not have an author. If there is not an author, look at the title of the work. You will need to keep the same punctuation as you did on the works cited page. If it is a short article title, use the entire article. Long titles may be abbreviated by the first good word. Woman gives birth to identical invitro triplets. CNN.com. Cable News Network, 5 Mar. 2008. Web. 5 Jan. 2011. Parenthetical Citation: ( Woman ). [Notice you need to keep the quotation marks around the word]. Parenthetical Citation for One Author: Elias, Marilyn. Is adult prison best for Juveniles? USAToday.com. USA Today, 20 Sept. 2006. Web. You will place the last name of the author in the parentheses. Parenthetical Citation: (Elias). Parenthetical Citation for Two Authors: Duffy, Michael, and Mark Thompson. What We Can Learn from Flight 253. Time.com. Time Inc., 30 Dec. 2009. Web. Use both authors last names in your citation. Parenthetical Citation: (Duffy and Thompson). Ms. Salona Page 7 of 10 Research Paper, 2011
Parenthetical Citation for Three Authors: Johnson, Kevin, Jack Gillum and William M. Welch. Rep. Giffords still critical after deadly shooting spree. USAToday.com. USA Today, 9 Jan. 2011. Web. Use all three authors names in your citation. Parenthetical Citation: (Johnson, Gillum and Welch). Parenthetical Citation for More than Three Authors: Carbone, Nick, et. al. Time-Worn Tabby: At 39, Is Lucy the Oldest Cat in the World? Time.com. Time Inc., 9 Jan. 2011. Web. If there are three or more authors, use the first author s last name followed by et al. Parenthetical Citation: (Carbone et. al.). Parenthetical Citation for a Corporate Author or Institution: National Institutes of Health. Research Ethics and Stem Cells. Stem Cell Information. National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 24 Mar. 2009. Web. If an institution or corporation is the author of your source, use the corporation s name in your citation. After you the entire name on time, you may be able to abbreviate for subsequent uses. Parenthetical Citation: (National Institutes of Health). Then, (NIH) for future citation uses. Parenthetical Citation for a Reference within a Source (Secondary Source): If you cite a person s statement within your source who is not the author of your source, indicate he or she was quoted in your source. For example, if your source is the Woman gives birth to identical invitro triplets, and you reference a scientist s commentary, write (qtd. in Woman ), but make sure you write the name of the person speaking as a lead in to your sentence. Dr. Victor Klein, the mother s doctor, remarked, This is the first one we're aware of in the literature in the country in which they only put back one embryo and a woman gave birth to triplets (qtd. in Woman ). Ms. Salona Page 8 of 10 Research Paper, 2011
If you have two works by the same author, list the author s last name and the first good word in the title. However, you must still include the author on both. Linder, Douglas O. Mississippi Burning Trial. Famous Trials. University of Missouri-Kansas School of Law, 2011. Web. Linder, Douglas O. Oklahoma City Bombing Trial. Famous Trials. University of Missouri-Kansas School of Law, 2011. Web. Parenthetical Citations for Above Sources: (Linder, Mississippi ) (Linder, Oklahoma ) If you have two works with no author and the same title, you need to look at the next item in the works cited entry to differentiate them. However, you still must include the title. Stem Cells. NYTimes.com. The New York Times Company, 10 Sept. 2010. Web. Stem Cells. Learn Genetics. The University of Utah, 2011. Web. Parenthetical Citations for Above Sources: ( Stem Cells, NYTimes.com). ( Stem Cells, Learn Genetics). Always keep the punctuation the same as it is on the works cited page. If it is italicized on the works cited page, italicize it in the parenthetical documentation. What parenthetical documentation looks like in your paper: Because so many of Darrow s witnesses testimonies were inadmissible in court, he called Bryan to the witness stand as an expert on the Bible; what followed was the most amazing court scene on Anglo-Saxon history (De Camp 45). Bryan began his testimony in calm and collected manner as he defended the literal meaning of the Bible as pertaining to Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and the snake in the Book of Genesis. Although Darrow made his questions regarding the Bible difficult, Bryan was able to support his beliefs until Darrow asked Ms. Salona Page 9 of 10 Research Paper, 2011
about a whale swallowing Jonah and Joshua making the sun stand still. A frustrated and humiliated Bryan finally contended that everything in the Bible should not be taken literally and began to accuse of Darrow of atheism (Linder 2). Darrow ended this famous confrontation by saying, I object to your statement, and to your fool ideas that no intelligent Christian on earth believes (qtd. in Linder 5). Judge Raulston ruled that this evidence be stricken from evidence; however, the spectators high opinions of Bryan were tarnished forever (De Camp 53). The following day the trial was over. Works Cited De Camp, Sprague L. The Great Monkey Trial. Garden City: Doubleday, 1968. Print. Linder, Douglass O. State v. John Scopes. Jurist: Legal Intelligence. University of Pittsburgh School Of Law, 9 Mar. 2005. Web. 5 Jan. 2010. NOTE: Your works cited page will be its own page. This is only an example. You may view the entire research paper and works cited page on my website. Ms. Salona Page 10 of 10 Research Paper, 2011