Bergen Community College © 2005 1 Creating a Works Cited Page Using Sources.

Bergen Community College © 2005 1

Creating a Works Cited Page

Using Sources


Table of ContentsMLA Format 3-4General Rules for Works Cited Pages 5-6General Rules for Works Cited Entries 7General Rules for Web Sources 8Works Cited Entry: Book 9Works Cited Entry: Periodical 10Works Cited Entry: Web Site 11Additional Research Sources/Information 12-14Next Step: Using Quotations 15


My instructor says I need to use MLA format when creating a Works Cited page.

What is that?


MLA Format MLA stands for Modern Language

Association. MLA format, developed by the Modern

Language Association, provides the style most instructors in the humanities require for papers.

There are other formats that can be used, such as APA (American Psychological Association) or the Chicago Manual of Style. Each format has its own set of rules.


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.


OK: so what does it look like?

“Hanging”

Indent

CenteredTitle

Everything is double-

spaced, and there are no line spaces

between entries.


General Rules forWorks Cited Entries

The author is usually first in a Works Cited entry, followed by the source’s title(s) and publication information.

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, short prepositions, or conjunctions).


More Rules for a Works Cited Page

Include publication medium (Print or Web) in each citation.

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 Entryfor a Book

The ideal context for identity

formation is “a supportive and

respectful family” (Levine 169).

Works Cited

Levine, Madeleine, Ph.D. See No Evil: A Guide to Protecting Our Children

from Media Violence. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998. Print.

In-text Citation

Works Cited Entry

Wow! Look at the connection!


Works Cited Entryfor a Periodical

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

Wilgoren, Jodi. “Shooting Rampage by Student Leaves 10 Dead on

Reservation.” New York Times 22 Mar. 2005, sec. 1: A-1+. Print.

In-text Citation

Works Cited Entry


Works Cited Entry for a Web Site

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

“Research on the Effects of Media Violence.” Media Awareness Network.

2005. Web. 12 Mar. 2005

In-text Citation

Works Cited Entry


Hmm… what if I am using something else as a research source?


Additional Research Sources

Lecture or Speech Chapter in a Book CD-ROM Email Interview Television or Film Advertisement


For More Information

Visit the Purdue Online Writing Lab for more information about formatting various Works Cited entries in MLA format.(http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/print/ research/r_mla.html)

Quick Check

1. What does MLA stand for?2. What is used after the first line of every

entry?3. Which words are NOT capitalized in

titles?4. What two dates are needed for Web

sources?5. Where should you go if you have MLA

questions?Bergen Community College © 2005 15

Quick Check Answers

1. Modern Language Association2. A hanging indent3. Articles, short prepositions, and

conjunctions4. The date the source was updated and the

date the information was accessed5. Purdue On-line Writing Lab

(http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/print/ research/r_mla.html)


Today… Find and print a credible source for your group’s

research project if you haven’t already done so. Meet with your group to decide what articles and

sidebar/”pullout information” you plan to include in your brochure/newsletter.

Assign one article/sidebar for each group member.

Highlight information you plan to use in your article.

As a group, create a graphic organizer for your newsletter.



Now I need to learn how to use the information from my sources in my

paper.

How can I use quotations and avoid

plagiarism?

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