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WORK CITED LIST

 What is a Work Cited List?


 Importance of Citing Sources
 Work Cited Page should be formatted as:
 The words Works Cited is centered at the top of a new page and is not
bolded, italicized, or underlined.
 Entries that are more than one line should have a hanging indent of 0.5
inches.
 Hanging indent helps reader see where one entry ends and the next
begin.
 Double-space the entire list without extra spaces between entries.
EXAMPLE OF A WORK CITED PAGE
 Capitalize each word in titles except for articles, prepositions, or conjunctions.
 Alphabetize the list of entries by the first author’s last name.
 Elements of Works Cited Entries (MLA):
AUTHOR

 Began each entry with authors last name, followed by a comma, the rest
of their name as it appears in the work, and a period.

 If there is more than one author, list them in the order presented in the
work, and follow it up. The second author’s name is not inverted.
 If there are more than three authors, the following
structure should be followed.

 When there are three or more authors, only list the first author,
followed by a comma and “et al.”
 If the author is an organization don't include initial articles. In addition
don't reverse the name.
TITLE OF SOURCE

List the full title as it is written on the source.


Capitalize all principal words (nouns, verbs, adjectives,
etc.). Do not capitalize articles, prepositions, or
conjunctions when they fall in the middle of a title.
Separate a subtitle with a colon and a space.
Italicize titles if the source is self-contained and
independent. Titles of books, plays, films, periodicals,
databases, and websites are italicized.
 Example of a journal article title which includes the title of a
book: "Unbearable Weight of Authenticity: Zora Neale
Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Theory of 'Touristic
Reading'.”

 Place titles in quotation marks if the source is part of a larger


work. Articles, essays, chapters, poems, webpages, songs, and
speeches are placed in quotation marks.
 Sometimes titles will contain other titles. For example, a journal
article about a novel, short story, play, film, etc. may mention the
title of the work the article is about in the article's title.
TITLE OF CONTAINER

 The title of a container is almost always italicized and


followed by a comma.
 Sometimes sources can have more than one container. If the
container is part of another “larger” container – for
example, if you were to cite an episode of a television series
which you access on Netflix – you would include the larger
container (Netflix) after the smaller container (the TV
series).
 Collection of essays, stories, poems, etc.:

Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Black Cat". Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry,
and Drama, edited by Robert DiYanni, 6th ed., McGraw Hill, 2007, pp.
137-43.
 Print journal, magazine, or newspaper article:

Dukes, Charlene. "Recognizing our Camelot Moment." Community


College Journal, vol. 86, no. 5, Apr./May 2016, p. 1.
 Television series episode:

"Something Nice Back Home." Lost, directed by Stephen Williams,


performance by Matthew Fox, season 4, episode 10, Bad Robot, 2008.
 Comic book:

Byrne, John and Jim Lee. "The Resurrection and the Flesh." X-Men, no.
4, Marvel Comics, Jan. 1992.
CONTRIBUTOR

 This element begins with a description of the other contributor. The


descriptor is capitalized or not depending on the punctuation directly
preceding it - if preceded by a comma, do not capitalize, if preceded by a
period, do capitalize the first word. Some common descriptors include:
 adapted by, directed by, edited by, illustrated by, introduction by, narrated
by, performance by, translated by
• Tynan, Kenneth. "The Kansas Farm Murders." The Critical Response to Truman
Capote, edited by Joseph J. Waldmeir and John C. Waldmeir, Greenwood Press,
1999, pp. 129-34.​
• Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis. Translated by Stanley Corngold, 2013
ed., Modern Library, 1915.
CONTRIBUTOR
 Editors of scholarly works and translators of works generally published in
another language are usually recorded in the documentation because
they play key roles.
 Chartier, Roger. The Order of Books: Readers, Authors
and Libraries in Europe between the Fourteenth and
Eighteenth Centuries.Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane,
Stanford UP, 1994.
 Dewar, James A., and Peng Hwa Ang. "The Cultural Consequences of
Printing and the Internet." Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, edited by Sabrina Alcorn Baron et al., U of
Massachusetts P /Center for the Book Library of Congress, 2007, pp.
365-77.
VERSION

 If available, list the version or edition of a work. This can be


a number (e.g. second edition), a description (e-book
edition, director’s cut, etc.), or a common name (e.g.
Revised Standard Version).
 When including the version, ordinal numbers should use
numerals without superscript (e.g. 2nd ed.).
 Use “rev.” as an abbreviation for “revised” and “ed.” as an
abbreviation of “edition.”
 Miller, Casey and Kate Swift. Words and Women.
Updated ed., HarperCollins Publishers, 1991.
 Newcomb, Horace, editor. Television: The Critical
View. 7th ed., Oxford UP, 2007.
Publisher:
 If a source has co-publishers, include all of them using
a forward slash (“/”) to separate each of them.
 Initial articles and legal corporate status can be
excluded from publisher names (e.g. Inc., Ltd., etc.).
Publication Date:
• If available, cite the date a source was published.
• Dates should be written out “Day Month Year”. The
day and month may be excluded if it is not
immediately relevant to your work. The date may
also include a season (e.g. Fall) or a range of dates.
• If a year is provided in roman numerals, convert it to
Arabic numerals (e.g. “III” should be “3”)
 Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the
Subversion of Identity. 2nd ed., Routledge, 1999.

Location:
 Cite page numbers if a work is part of a larger,
published collection.
 DOIs are preferred for online sources. When citing a
DOI, include “http://” or “https://”
 Cite full URLs for websites, try to find the most concise
URL location of the website. o You can exclude
“http://” or “https://” with your URLS
 Physical locations like a museum or venue should be cited if
relevant to your work (such as if you were asked to visit one
of these locations and analyze items).

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