10/3/20151 Creating a Works Cited Page It is not an easy task to create a correctly formatted Works Cited page. Give yourself a lot of time to do it!

10/3/20152 My instructor says I need to use MLA format when creating a Works Cited page. What is that? What is MLA format?

10/3/20153 MLA Format MLA stands for Modern Language Association. MLA format, developed by the Modern Language Association, provides the style (page layout of the essay, header, quotations, Works Cited, etc.) most instructors in the humanities require for papers. However, there are other formats such as APA (American Psychological Association) or the Chicago Manual of Style. Each format has its own set of rules. For papers in literature you must use MLA format.

10/3/20154 Rules for MLA Format The bibliography is called “Works Cited.” 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.

10/3/20155 Works Cited Berman, Jeffrey. “The Unrestful Cure: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’.” The Talking Cure: Literary Representations of Psychoanalysis. By Jeffrey Berman. New York: New York University Press, Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Paula Kepos. Vol. 37. Detroit: The Gale Group, Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “The Yellow Wall-paper.” The YellowWOther Stories. New York: Modern Library, Print. OK: so what does it look like? All text is double- spaced, and there are no line spaces between entries. Centered Title “Hanging” Indent

More Rules for Works Cited 10/3/20156 The author’s last name is usually first in a Works Cited entry, followed by the source title(s) and publication information. Place the titles of articles, short stories, book chapters, poems, and songs in quotation marks. Italicize the titles of books, plays, journals, magazines, newspapers, and films. Capitalize each word in titles, except articles, short prepositions, or conjunctions. Include publication medium (Print or Web) in each citation.

Works Cited Entry for a Book 10/3/20157 Elaine Showalter would disagree with the interpretation of the demonized baby that poses a threat to the mother, “in particular the weight gain that was considered an essential part of the cure was a kind of pseudo-pregnancy” (247). Works Cited Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Print. In-text Citation Works Cited Entry Wow! Look at the connection!

Works Cited Entry for a Periodical Article from a Database 10/3/20158 In-text Citation Roth, Marty. “Gilman’s Arabesque Wallpaper.” Mosaic 34.4 (2001) Literature Resource Center. Thomson Gale. Web. 27 June Jonathan Crewe claims that “the exasperating effect of pattern wallpaper on invalids was a medical commonplace of Gilman’s time” (qtd. in Roth). Works Cited Entry

10/3/20159 Works Cited Entries for the Gale Literary Criticism Series Treichler, Paula A. “Escaping the Sentence: Diagnosis and Discourse in ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature (1984): Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Paula Kepos. Vol. 37. Detroit: The Gale Group, Print. Hedges, Elaine R. “Afterword.” The Yellow Wallpaper. By Charlotte Perkins Gilman New York: The Feminist Press, Rpt. in Twentieth- Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Dennis Poupard. Vol. 9. Detroit: The Gale Group, Print. Follow the examples below to cite material from the Gale Literary Criticism Series. The first example shows how to cite material originally published in an article; the second illustrates how to cite material reprinted from books:

Rules for Web Sources in Works Cited 10/3/ All Web sources need two dates: the date that the Web page was last updated and the date the information was accessed from the Internet.

Works Cited Entry for a Web Site 10/3/ Deborah Thomas notes that in Charlotte Gilman’s view, “women were constricted to the set parameters that men determined...[and] conditioned to accept these boundaries and remain in place, in the private sphere.” Thomas, Deborah. “The Changing Role of Womanhood: From True Woman to New Woman in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’.” American Literature Research and Analysis Web Site. Florida Gulf Coast University. September Web. 26 June In-text Citation Works Cited Entry

10/3/ Additional Research Sources Lecture or Speech Chapter in a Book Newspapers Interview Television or Film Hmm… what if I am using something else as a research source? Yes, something like this…

10/3/ For More Information Visit the Purdue Online Writing Lab for more information about formatting various Works Cited entries in MLA format atPurdue Online Writing Lab search/r_mla.htmlhttp://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/print/re search/r_mla.html.

10/3/ Now I need to learn how to use the information from my sources in my paper. How can I use quotations and avoid plagiarism?