MLA Works Cited Formatting Go to the OWL

MLA Works Cited Formatting

Go to the OWL at Purdue • https: //owl. english. purdue. edu/owl/resourc e/747/06/ • This link is also posted on my webpage.

Why do we have to do this? • Including references to reliable resources makes you look good! The reader can trust what you have to say because you have referenced the experts. • If you don’t include in-text citation and/or a works cited page, your work is considered plagiarized. Not only can plagiarism get you in trouble in the real world, but it will earn you a ZERO on your assignment. In college, you could even be kicked out of the class, department, or school. In your job, you could be fired or lose credibility.

Electronic Resources • Mainly, you will be citing pages on a website, but sometimes you’ll cite the entire website if your information comes from multiple pages of one website. • Your works cited page source should look like this (but double-spaced, Times New Roman): Author Last Name, First Name. “Article Title: Subtitle if Needed. ” Website Title. Organization or Sponsor, Day# Mon. Year last updated. Web. Day# Mon. Year accessed by you. <URL>. Example: "How to Make Vegetarian Chili. " e. How. Demand Media, n. d. Web. 24 Feb. 2009. <www. how-to-make-vegetarian-chile. ehow. com>.

Electronic Resources A Closer Look… Every period, comma, quotation mark, etc. is intentional. Use the OWL at Purdue guide to make sure you put each part in its proper place. Author Last Name, First Name. “Article Title: Subtitle if Needed. ” Website Title. Organization or Sponsor, Day# Mon. Year last updated. Use the European style Web. Day# Mon. Year accessed by you. <URL>. of dating. # Month Example: (abbreviated) "How to Make Vegetarian Chili. " e. How. Demand Media, n. d. Web. 24 Year Feb. 2009. <www. how-to-make-vegetarian-chile. ehow. com>. This example starts with the article title because no author was listed on the website. MLA guidelines do not require the URL, but leave it up to the teacher’s discretion. I would like you to include it! The “n. d. ” here indicates “no date, ” meaning that no date was given for the last time the site was updated.

Books • Your Works Cited entry should look like this (but double-spaced, Times New Roman): Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication. Example: Wiesel, Elie. Night. Upper Saddle River: Prentice-Hall, Inc. , 2000. Print.

Books A Closer Look… Author Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Anything Year of Publication. Medium of Publication. Example: Wiesel, Elie. Night. Upper Saddle River: Prentice-Hall, Inc. , 2000. Print. When I looked on the title page of the book, several cities were listed, so I turned to the copyright page. The city listed with the copyright is the one to use. The publisher’s name has a comma in it. You still need to include a comma after it to separate the name from the year of publication. The copyright date can be used as the year of publication. If there are multiple listed, pick the most recent. physically printed, on paper, will be considere d a “print” medium.

In-Text Citations: General Guidelines • Use the first word of the works cited entry and keep any formatting. • Include page numbers for books. • Put this information in parenthesis. • Put the period outside the parenthesis. • See the OWL at Purdue for irregular documentation (multiple authors, a work within another work, etc. )

In-Text Citation: Books If this is your works cited entry… Wiesel, Elie. Night. Upper Saddle River: Prentice. Hall, Inc. , 2000. Print. ) Your in-text citation should look like this… Encyclopedia of Indiana. New York: Somerset, 1993. Print. (Encyclopedia 783). (Weisel 32). These numbers represent the page numbers where the information was found. Notice that there is just a space and no comma or “pg. ” before the number. Just list the number. )

In-Text Citation: Website If this is your works cited entry… Your in-text citation should look like this… "How to Make Vegetarian Chili. " e. How. Demand Media, n. d. Web. 24 Feb. 2009. <www. how -to-makevegetarianchile. ehow. com>. (“How”). Purdue OWL Family of Sites, The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, 2008. Web. 23 Apr. 2008. (Purdue) Note that there are no page or paragraph numbers. Since this is a website, you do not need to list them.