Citing Your Sources in MLA: Works Cited American Literature

Works Cited: Sample Page

Works Cited: The Basics Your Works Cited list goes on a separate page at the end of your paper The margins all stay the same The page should be labeled Works Cited – it is not to be underlined, italicized, or put in quotation marks Citations should be double spaced, but do not skip lines in between entries Indent the second and subsequent lines of each entry to create a hanging indent

Works Cited: Capitalization and Punctuation Capitalize each word in the titles of articles, books, etc, but do not capitalize articles (the, an), prepositions, or conjunctions unless one is the first word of the title or subtitle: Gone with the Wind, The Art of War, There Is Nothing Left to Lose. Use italics (instead of underlining) for titles of larger works (books, magazines) and quotation marks for titles of shorter works (poems, articles)

Works Cited: Listing Author Names Entries are listed alphabetically by the author's last name (or, for entire edited collections, editor names). Author names are written last name first; middle names or middle initials follow the first name: Burke, Kenneth Levy, David M. Wallace, David Foster

Works Cited: Works with No Known Author These works should be listed alphabetically by their title and should be cited using a shortened form of the title in your paper.

Works Cited: Help! Cite your sources in MLA format: EasyBib Print MLA Works Cited from the Mayo library’s research databases Use the Mayo library’s research databases before simply going to Google; the credibility of these sources is already confirmed. Google may be used for brainstorming topic choices

Go to work! Use the Mayo library’s research databases before simply going to Google; the credibility of these sources is already confirmed. Google may be used for brainstorming topic choices Conduct search, read through your findings, evaluate your sources and find at least two credible sources to use in your writing. Identify relevant information in the article/source to answer your question and take notes.  Create a Works Cited page with your sources. Turn in Works Cited page with your notes when you are done. If you finish before the end of class, you may go to the library to prepare for Friday’s small group discussion: read, write Bloom’s Qs, and/or work on role responsibility.

Works Cited "MLA Formatting and Style Guide." Purdue OWL: Online Writing Lab. The Writing Lab at Purdue University, 2014. Web. 27 Apr. 2014. <https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/74 7/01/>.