1. Creating your Works Cited Page and Title Page

2. General Rules for Works Cited Pages in MLA Format
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.

3. General Rules for Works Cited Entries
The author is usually first in a Works Cited entry, followed by the source’s title(s) and publication information.
If there is no author, the article title should be first
Place the titles of smaller works (articles, short stories, book chapters, poems, songs) in quotation marks.
Italicize the titles of larger works (books, journals, magazines, newspapers, and films).
Capitalize the first letter of each word in titles (except articles (a, an, the), short prepositions, or conjunctions).

4. More Rules for a Works Cited Page
Sources are listed in alphabetical order by author’s last name
If there is no author, then alphabetize by the first major word in the article title (not “A”, “An”, or “The”)
ONLY INCLUDE SOURCES THAT YOU ACTUALLY CITED IN YOUR PAPER ON YOUR WORKS CITED PAGE!

5. OK: so what does it look like?
Centered Title
“Hanging” Indent
I can’t edit this page because of the way it was created.
Everything is double-spaced, and there are no line spaces between entries.

6. Works Cited Entry for a Book
Wow! Look at the connection!
In-text Citation
The ideal context for identity
formation is “a supportive and
respectful family” (Levine 169).
Works Cited Entry
Works Cited
Levine, Madeleine, Ph.D. See No Evil: A Guide to Protecting Our Children
from Media Violence. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Print.

7. Works Cited Entry for a Periodical
In-text Citation
A graphic example is the series of school shootings that have occurred in recent
years—the most recent occurred on March 21, 2005, at Red Lake High School on
an Indian reservation in Minnesota, where a seventeen-year-old male, who had just
killed his grandparents, shot and killed five students, a teacher and a security guard,
wounded many others and then turned the gun on himself (Wilgoren A-1).
Works Cited Entry
Works Cited
Wilgoren, Jodi. “Shooting Rampage by Student Leaves 10 Dead on
Reservation.” New York Times 22 Mar. 2005, sec. 1: A-1+. Print.

8. Works Cited Entry for a Web Site
In-text Citation
Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Johnson spent seventeen years
recording the viewing habits of children in 707 families in Upstate New
York and found that the ones “who watched one to three hours of television
each day were 60% more likely to be involved in assaults and fights as
those who watched less TV” (“Research”).
Works Cited Entry
Works Cited
“Research on the Effects of Media Violence.” Media Awareness Network.
2005. Web. 12 Mar. 2005

9. The Title Page Center everything on your title page
About 1/3 from the top of the page, place the title of your paper
In the middle of the page, place your full name
Towards the bottom of the page, place the following info (each on a different line):
Course name
Instructor’s name
Due Date

10. Sample Title Page