Bibliographies and

Works Cited Lists

What’s the Difference?

A Bibliography lists all the sources consulted in research for a specific essay.A Preliminary Bibliography or Working

Bibliography lists all the sources the writer thinks s/he will be using in the essay

A Works Cited lists all the works actually cited in the text of the essay.

Both a Bibliography and Works Cited list are formatted in the same way.

Overall Format The title -- Bibliography or Works Cited -- is centered

at the top of the page. It is not underlined, italicized or quoted. It should be the same font size as the rest of the citations.

The citation list is double-spaced throughout. The citation list is alphabetized. If there is no author, the citation begins with the title

of the work – quoted if an article or poem, underlined or italicized if a book.

The first line of each citation is at the margin; subsequent lines should be indented about ten spaces.

Sample Citations:

MLA FORMAT

A Book

Bragg, Rick. Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2000.

author title of book

subtitle of book city of publication

publisher year of publication

Chapter in a Book

Bragg, Rick. “Country Club Meets the Enemy:

Country Music and Pigs.” 1999. Rpt. Somebody

Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg.

Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2000. 123-25.

author title of chapter

original publication date reprint

city publisher year of publication

inclusive chapter pages

title of book subtitle of book

Article in a Multi-Volume Reference Work

Larkin, Joan. "Frontiers of Language: Three Poets."

1974. Exc. in "Audre Lord.” Contemporary

Literary Criticism. Vol. 18. Ed. Sharon R.

Gunton. Detroit: Gale Research, 1982. 307-08.

author title of work

original date volume editor

city publisher year of publication

inclusive pages of work

excerpted title of article title of reference work

Article in a Journal

Maxwell, Bill. “Angry Young Man.” Forum:

The Magazine of the Florida Humanities Council.

XXII.2 (Summer 1999): 8-17.

author title of article name of journal

volume number date inclusive pages of article

Article in a Journal found in an Online Database

author title of article

name of journalEder, Richard, "The Greatest Woman Poet Since

Sappho." Los Angeles Times Book Review

18 Mar. 1990. 3+. Galenet: Literature

Resource Center. LINCC. 10 Jan. 2004.

date pages publisher database

provider date accessed

Article found on an Internet Site

author title of webpage date posted

name of websiteLu Yanguang. "Madame Li." 1997. 

Asia Pac: 100 Celebrated Chinese Women.

Trans. Kate Foster. 10 Feb. 2000 < http://www.span.com.au/100women/18.html > .

translator date accessed

URL: web address

Work in an Anthology

Whitman, Walt. “Osceola.” 1892. Florida in Poetry:.

A History of the Imagination. Eds. Jane Anderson

author title of work title of book

original publication date

publisher year of publication

inclusive pages of work

subtitle of book editors

Jones and Maurice O’Sullivan. Sarasota:

Pineapple Press, 1995. 30-31.

city

Poems from Online Sources

McKay, Claude. “Spring in New Hampshire.”

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online.

2008. Columbia University Press. 22 May

2008. <http://www.columbiagrangers.org>.

Rich, Adrienne. “Diving Into the Wreck.” 1973.

Poet’s.Org. 2008. American Academy of Poets.

22 May 2008. < http://www.poets.org/ viewmedia.php/prmMID/15228 >.

Bios from Online Sources

“Adrienne Rich.” Poet’s Org. 2008.

Academy of American Poets. 22 May 2008.

<http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/49>

“Claude McKay (1889–1948)”. Columbia Granger's World

of Poetry Online. 2008. Columbia University Press.

22 May. 2008. <http://www.columbiagrangers.org>

Bibliography

Bragg, Rick. “Country Club Meets the Enemy: Country Music and

Pigs.” 1999. Rpt. Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories

of Rick Bragg. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2000. 123-25.

______. Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg.

Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2000.

Eder, Richard, "The Greatest Woman Poet Since Sappho." Los Angeles

Times Book Review 18 Mar. 1990. 3+. Galenet: Literature

Resource Center. LINCC. 10 Jan. 2004.

Larkin, Joan. "Frontiers of Language: Three Poets." 1974. Exc. in

"Audre Lord.” Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 18.

Ed. Sharon R. Gunton. Detroit: Gale Research, 1982. 307-08.

Lu Yanguang. "Madame Li." 1997.  Asia Pac: 100 Celebrated

Chinese Women. Trans. Kate Foster. 10 Feb. 2000 < http://www.span.com.au/100women/18.html > .

Maxwell, Bill. “Angry Young Man.” Forum: The Magazine of the

Florida Humanities Council. XXII.2 (Summer 1999): 8-17.

Whitman, Walt. “Osceola.” 1892. Florida in Poetry: A History of the

Imagination. Eds. Jane Anderson Jones and Maurice O’Sullivan.

Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 1995. 30-31.

REMEMBER… The title -- Bibliography or Works Cited -- is centered

at the top of the page. It is not underlined, italicized or quoted. It should be the same font size as the rest of the citations.

The citation list is double-spaced throughout. The citation list is alphabetized. If there is no author, the citation begins with the title of

the work – quoted if an article or poem, underlined or italicized if a book.

The first line of each citation is at the margin; subsequent lines should be indented about ten spaces.

For Further Information

Jane Jones’ Tools for Writing and Research:http://www.mccfl.edu/Faculty/Jonesj/Tools/tools.html

Manatee Community College's Writing and Citing Help: http://www.mccfl.edu/pages/767.asp

MLA Online: http://www.mla.org/ Using MLA Style from the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL):

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html Color-coded MLA Citations from Long Island University:

http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citmla.htm Slate Citation Machine will help format sources automatically:

http://www.landmark-project.com/citation_machine/cm.php