The Works Cited Page MLA Works Cited Basics

The Works Cited Page

MLA Works Cited Basics ❖ Works Cited page Format ❖ Alphabetical Order ❖ Capitalization and Punctuation ❖ More than one work by an author ❖ Works with more than one author ❖ Works with no author ❖ When in doubt: OWL Purdue will help you!

Works Cited Page Format ❖ “Works Cited” as a title at the top of the page ❖ Alphabetical order by author or article (if there is no author) ❖ Indentation of the second line of each entry (also called the Hanging Indent) ❖ Double-spaced ❖ Include shortened versions of URL’s ❖ Quotes around Article Titles ❖ Where the article was cited ❖ Date

Works Cited Dean, Cornelia. "Executive on a Mission: Saving the Planet. " The New York Times, 22 May 2007, www. nytimes. com/2007/05/22/science/earth/22 ander. html? _r=0. Accessed 12 May 2016. Ebert, Roger. Review of An Inconvenient Truth, directed by Davis Guggenheim. rogerebert. com, 1 June 2006, www. rogerebert. com/reviews/an-inconvenienttruth-2006. Accessed 15 June 2016. Gowdy, John. "Avoiding Self-organized Extinction: Toward a Co-evolutionary Economics of Sustainability. " International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, vol. 14, no. 1, 2007, pp. 27 -36. An Inconvenient Truth. Directed by Davis Guggenheim, performances by Al Gore and Billy West, Paramount, 2006. Leroux, Marcel. Global Warming: Myth Or Reality? : The Erring Ways of Climatology. Springer, 2005. Milken, Michael, et al. "On Global Warming and Financial Imbalances. " New Perspectives Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 4, 2006, p. 63. Nordhaus, William D. "After Kyoto: Alternative Mechanisms to Control Global Warming. " American Economic Review, vol. 96, no. 2, 2006, pp. 31 -34. ---. "Global Warming Economics. " Science, vol. 294, no. 5545, 9 Nov. 2001, pp. 1283 -84, DOI: 10. 1126/science. 1065007. Regas, Diane. “Three Key Energy Policies That Can Help Us Turn the Corner on Climate. ” Environmental Defense Fund, 1 June 2016, 2016/06/01/3 -key-energy-polici Revkin, Andrew C. “Clinton on Climate Change. ” The New York Times, 17 May 2007, www. nytimes. com/video/world/americas/1194817109438/clinton-on-climate-cha Shulte, Bret. "Putting a Price on Pollution. " US News & World Report, vol. 142, no. 17, 14 May 2007, p. 37. Ebsco, Access no: 24984616. Uzawa, Hirofumi. Economic Theory and Global Warming. Cambridge UP, 2003.

Alphabetical Order ❖ ❖ By author’s last name: Clinton, Bill. “Chapter Four: Small Donations. ” Giving. Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Strausser, Jeffrey. Painless Writing, Second Edition. Barrons, 2009. Or, if an author is unknown, by the name of the book, article, web page, or journal. “Chapter Four: Small Donations. ” Giving. Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Strausser, Jeffrey. Painless Writing, Second Edition. Barrons, 2009.

Capitalization and Punctuation ❖ Capitalize all parts of titles, authors’ names, and anything after a period (which is many items), and put quotes around article and chapter titles. Capitals are in bold, punctuation is in red. Clinton, Bill. “Chapter Four: Small Donations. ” Giving. Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Strausser, Jeffrey. Painless Writing, Second Edition. Barrons, 2009.

More than One Work by One Author ❖ ❖ List the author once with the first book/article in alphabetical order first. Put dashes for the author’s name instead of repeating the author’s name. Example: Burke, Kenneth. A Grammar of Motives. Piedmont, 2003. ---. A Rhetoric of Motives. Penguin, 2005.

Works with More than One Author ❖ ❖ ❖ List all authors. Put an “and” between their names if there are two. List with commas and an “and” if there are more than two. Example: Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn, 2000. Gillespie, Paula, Ballard, Caroline, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn, 2000.

No Author ❖ ❖ List by the article or chapter title, then the book or web page (NOT website) title. Example: Encyclopedia of Indiana. New York: Somerset, 1993.

Note on Wikipedia ❖ ❖ You CAN use Wikipedia, but you MUST find the original source. Original sources are at the bottom of every Wikipedia page. They are often difficult to track down in terms of what content came from where, so I advise against it. But if you can be certain of where the ORIGINAL quote is from and can cite that then, go ahead!

Checklist ❖ ❖ In alphabetical order A to Z, by last name of the author or work if no known author. Capitalizations are correct—only the article and preposition words (i. e. a, an, the, on, in) are not capitalized. ❖ Book, Website, Magazine, Journal, Film, and Newspaper titles are in italics. ❖ Article, chart, and chapter titles are in “quotation marks” and NOT italicized. ❖ URL’s (shortened versions) are included if it is from an online resource. ❖ For authors, list them in the order they appear in the article: Last Name, First Name and First Name, Last Name. ❖ Double-space ❖ Use hanging indents (all lines except the first are indented). ❖ Do NOT number or use bullet points. ❖ Same author, different works—put the works in alphabetical order and - - instead of the author’s name for the every citation by that author after the first one.