The Works Cited Page

1. The Works Cited Page Literary Research

2. Step One: • As you’re researching, make sure you note all the bibliographic material you’ll need to do the works cited page • Author’s name; • Book or article title; • Journal name; • Relevant dates and publication sites; • Page numbers;

3. Step Two: • Your works cited page should be a separate page attached to the end of your essay; • It should not come to me as a separate file

4. Step Three • Make sure your word processor program is set to double space; • Give the page its title and center it;

6. Step Four • Set your word processing program for “hanging indent” • Select “format” from your tool bar (Microsoft Word or Word Perfect—the sample slides which follow are for Microsoft Word )

7. Select Format

8. Step Four • Set your word processing program for “hanging indent” • Select “format” from your tool bar; • Then select “paragraph”:

9. Choose “paragraph”

10. Step Four • Set your word processing program for “hanging indent” • Select “format” from your tool bar; • Then select “paragraph”: • When that window opens, make sure that • Alignment is set to “left” • Line spacing is set to “double”

12. Step Four • Set your word processing program for “hanging indent” • Select “format” from your tool bar; • Then select “paragraph”: • When that window opens, make sure that • Alignment is set to “left” • Line spacing is set to “double” • Open the window labeled “special” and select “hanging” and then select “OK”

14. Now you’re ready to start. . . • The works cited citation depends on what kind of source you have; • Basically, you’ll have three kinds of sources: • Books • Journals • Online

15. Books • One author • Multiple authors • Anthology

16. One author Anthology Multiple authors

17. Multiple authors Single author Anthology Alphabetize by the author’s last name

18. Journals • Journals with continuous pagination; • Journals with each issue pages separately; • Monthly magazine;

19. Monthly Continuous pagination means that all of the issues of one volume have consecutively number pages; thus the first issue of the volume might contain pages 1-145 and the second issue of the volume might contain pages 146-290, etc. Weekly magazine--Note that volume numbers are not listed for magazines. The article title is placed in quotation marks, and periodical titles should be underlined. Non-Continuous Pagination means that each issue begins pagination separately; the first, second, third, etc. issues of a volume will each begin with page 1.

20. Online • For this essay, you cannot use the Internet; • You can, however, use an article from OC’s online data base.

21. Go to the LRC’s site

22. Click on this link

23. For this assignment, these are the two most useful databases

24. Off-campus, your user name is your student ID number and your password is your first initial, last name, i.e., dsmith

25. You’ll cite the source according to what kind it is—journal article, book chapter, etc—but then you’ll have a reference to the database in which you found it

26. The Essay and General Literature Index • This is a print index that lists essays published in book form, as part of a collection of essays; • OC has bought books listed in this index for years, so you’re likely to find research material using this index. • Each volume covers a different set of years and contains different sources;

27. How to Use It • Look up the writer that you’re researching, alphabetically by last name • Shakespeare, William

28. Normally. . . • If the author is important, there will be multiple sections under his/her name • General essays about the author • Essays about specific works arranged alphabetically by the work’s title

29. General essays about the author

30. Essays about a particular work

31. Let’s look at an entry more closely

32. To find the essay, you have to find the book that it’s in—in this case, the book by J. Bayley, The Uses of Division, unity and Disharmony in Literature. This is the name of the person who wrote the essay This is the name of the essay itself This is the name and author of the book where the particular essay exists. Look for the word in and the information that follows it Look at this entry

34. There’s one more citation form to teach you: • The Gale Series • This is reference book that compiles critical essays from other sources into edited volumes, kind of like Readers’ Digest; • You can use this for just one of your sources; • What follows is help for how to cite from the Gale series

35. In your works cited entry, you must provide the information that will let a reader find the article either in the original source or in the Gale source. That means you’ll need to look for the article’s original citation. In the earlier volumes, it comes at the end of the article

36. In more recent volumes of Gale, the bibliographic information is at the beginning of the article Wherever you find it, you’ll need to be able to recognize what the original source was, i.e., journal, book, etc. Write the works cited entry as you would if you had read the critical essay in its original source.

37. The volume The book’s name The editor’s name Publisher and place of publication But you also need to note the information from the Gale reference book you’re using. Go to the title page of the reference book.

38. You also need the date of publication, which is on the back of the title page. Date published

39. Here’s the Gale entry