Creating a Works Cited Page MLA Style Bergen

Table of Contents MLA Format General Rules for Works Cited Pages General Rules for Works Cited Entries General Rules for Web Sources Works Cited Entry: Book Works Cited Entry: Periodical Works Cited Entry: Web Site Additional Research Sources/Information Next Step: Using Quotations Bergen Community College © 2005 3 -4 5 -6 7 8 9 10 11 12 -14 15 2

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

MLA Format n n n 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. Bergen Community College © 2005 4

General Rules for Works Cited Pages in MLA Format n n n 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. Bergen Community College © 2005 5

OK: so what does it look like? Centered Title “Hanging” Indent Everything is double-spaced,

General Rules for Works Cited Entries n n 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). Bergen Community College © 2005 7

More Rules for a Works Cited Page n n 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. Bergen Community College © 2005 8

Works Cited Entry for a Book In-text Citation Wow! Look at the connection! 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, 1998. Print. Bergen Community College © 2005 9

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. Bergen Community College © 2005 10

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 Bergen Community College © 2005 11

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

Additional Research Sources n n n n Lecture or Speech Chapter in a Book

For More Information Visit the Easybib website to help you format additional types of sources in proper MLA style. http: //www. easybib. com **All database sources are correctly cited at the end of each article. YOU MUST RE-TYPE OR COPY EACH EXACTLY AS IT IS SHOWN. Bergen Community College © 2005 14