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Psychology of Codes
PAGE HEADER
Davy Jones A page header includes the last
FORMAT Running head: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CODES name of the paper’s author and
Professor Mills

Double space, and use a English 2010 the page number. Headers
standard typeface and type size, should appear in the top right
7 July 2004
such as 12-point Times New corner of every page.
Roman. Understanding Whitman’s Poetry
The Psychology of Western Military Codes
TITLE By examining sectional divisions in Walt Whitman’s Song of IN-TEXT CITATIONS
The title should be 12-point font John Q. Cipher
In-text citations should be used
and centered, but not underlined, Myself, we can show that 1891 revisions underscore the function of
Utah Valley State College after quoting, paraphrasing, or
italicized, bolded, or put in each section as a unit of meaning governed by its own rhythm summarizing. State the
quotation marks. Dr. Simon Gilmore
(Strauch 64). Fred Mitchell calls this “group size pattern”:
author’s last name and the
Psychology 4890 page number in parentheses
BLOCK QUOTATIONS Whitman is doing more than simply distributing a pattern of without a comma. If the
Block quotations are
author is named in the text,
quotations longer than four groups in some sensible fashion over the lines of a poem,
only cite the page number. If
lines. Indent 1” from the set creating what some critics are calling a group/line pattern. the author is unknown, use the
margin when using a block
first few words from the title.
quotation. Do not use Whitman is also conscious of the size of his groups and of
The period is placed after the
quotation marks, and put the their progression in terms of size pattern. (16) citation. If there is no page
period before the citation.
Such an analysis demonstrates the method governing Whitman’s number, include the author
and title within the text rather
MARGINS formation of stanzas and the meter governing the lines and verses of than using a parenthetical
Use 1-inch margins on all 4
notation.
sides of each page.
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CITING INDIRECT SOURCES

WORKS CITED To cite information that your
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source has taken from a
TITLE
Works Cited different source, put the
The title “Works Cited” should Asay, Ronald. “How the Americans Made Transcendentalism.” original author of the
be centered, but not underlined information in the text and
or punctuated.
Journal of American History 23 (1978): 345-357. write “qtd. in” in your in-text
Frank, Sarah. The Man Who Invented Poetry. New York: Nerd citation followed by the author
and page number of the work
HANGING INDENT Press, 2001. you found the material in.
Use a hanging indent for entries
Example: (qtd. in Asay 352).
longer than one line. Indent 1/2” Harvard, Neil and Allen Gregory. The Literary Executioners.

from the set margins after the London: Oxford UP, 1954.
first line of each entry. QUOTATIONS
Mitchell, Fred. “Understanding Poetry.” Daily News 5 May 1987,
If you need to make additions to
SOURCES late ed.: F1, F9. a quotation, put your own words
List only the works you used, in square brackets [ ]. To omit
Strauch, Ronald. “Leaving Cambridge.” Whitman: The Man. Ed.
not everything you read. words, use ellipses (three
Taylor Roger. New York: Harcourt and Brace, 1998. 123-134. periods, with a space after each).
ALPHABETICAL ORDER Example: “She was . . .
Alphabetically arrange works unhappy.”
cited entries according to the
first word in the entry, ABBREVIATIONS Abbreviations
ignoring a, an, and the. in works cited entries are
acceptable if they are clear
(University Press=UP).
 Style Guides MLA Format
The following list includes some of the most common sources included in a Works Cited page. For more
information, see pages 144-235 of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th edition or visit
The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/1/).
BOOK BY A SINGLE AUTHOR
Last Name, First Name and Initial (if given). Title. Location: Publisher, Year. Medium of Publication.
Wilson, Frank R. The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain. New York: Pantheon, 1998. Print.

BOOK BY TWO OR MORE AUTHORS

Last Name, First Name and Initial (if given), and First Name Last Name. Title. Location: Publisher, Year. Medium of
Publication.
Welsch, Roger L., and Linda K. Welsch. Cather's Kitchens. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P. 1987. Print.
NOTE: If a reference has more than three authors, give the first author's name and "et al." Example: Jones, Bob, et al.

TEXT IN AN ANTHOLOGY OR EDITED BOOK

Last Name, First Name (of author of the article). “Article Title.” Anthology Title. Ed. First Name Last Name (of
editor). Location: Publisher, Year. pages. Medium of Publication.
Gomez, Isabel. “From Within.” Stories from the South. Ed. Thomas Nitsche. New York: Plume, 1992. 82-92. Print.

ARTICLE IN A REFERENCE BOOK

“Article Title.” Book Title. Edition Number. Publication Year.
Medium of Publication.
“Noon.” The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 1989. Print.

ARTICLE IN A MAGAZINE
Last Name, First Name. “Article Title.” Magazine Title Day Month Year: pages. Medium of Publication.
Mehta, Pratap Bhanu. “Exploding Myths.” New Republic 6 June 1998: 17-19. Print.

ARTICLE IN A JOURNAL
Last Name, First Name. “Article Title.” Journal Title Volume Number. Issue (Year): pages. Medium of Publication.
Craner, Paul M. “New Tool for an Ancient Art.” Computers and the Humanities 25.2 (1991): 303-13.
ARTICLE IN A NEWSPAPER
Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Newspaper Day Month Year: pages. Medium of publication.
Jones, Anna. “Deadly Change.” Daily Post 1 June 2002: B3+. Print.
NOTE: If the newspaper is a less well-known or local publication, include the city name and state in brackets after the title
of the newspaper.
PERSONAL INTERVIEW OR COMMUNICATION
Last Name, First Name (person being interviewed). Interview type (Personal, Telephone, E-mail). Day Month Year.
Takyrbashev, Lewis P. E-mail interview. 8-12 June 2003.

ENTIRE WEBSITE (Include all information that is available and applicable.)

Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). Name of Site. Version number. Name of institution/organization
affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation (if available). Medium of publication.
Date of access.
Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. Purdue U, 28 Nov. 2003. Web. 10 May 2006.
WORK FROM LIBRARY SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE
(The first part of the citation will vary, depending on whether the work comes originally from an online book, periodical article, etc.
[See MLA Handbook, pages 216-224]. For works from print sources, give all standard information for such a source that is provided.)
Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Internet site or Database Ed. First name Last
Name. Identifying volume number (Date of Publication): (If no vol. number is available, date of
publication appears without parenthesis) page no.Name of Publisher. Web. Day Month Year when
source was accessed.
Kunkel, Louis M. "Cloning of the DMD Gene." American Journal of Human Genetics. 76.2 (2005): 205. Academic Search
Premier. Web. 28 Aug. 2009. (journal articleEBSCOhost

Sources: Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2003.
The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, 2008. Web. 21 Jul. 2011.
“MLA list of Works Cited Examples.” Northeast Mississippi Community College. Northeast Mississippi Community College, Feb. 2011. Web. 21
Jul. 2011.