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Learn the essentials of creating a Works Cited page for academic papers, following MLA guidelines. Includes formatting tips, citation rules, and examples for books and journals.
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WORKS CITED How to do it properly!
What is the Works Cited page? • This is the page in your paper (or research plan) that lists all the resources that you cited in your paper. • It does NOT list all of the sources that you read, just those you CITED.
Information from Basic Paper Format Packet Your Works Cited List • The Works Cited list should appear at the end of your paper. It is also part D of the ISEF paperwork research plan. It provides the information necessary for a reader to locate and be able to read any sources you cite in the essay. Each source you cite in the paper must appear in your Works Cited list; likewise, each entry in the Works Cited list must be cited in your text.
Information from Basic Paper Format Packet List Format • Begin your Works Cited list on a separate page from the text of the paper. • Label the works cited list Works Cited(do not underline the words Works Cited nor put them in quotation marks) • Center the words Works Cited at the top of the page - no more than 14pt in font size.
Information form Basic Paper Format Packet • Make the first line of each entry in your list flush left with the margin. • Subsequent lines in each entry should be indented one-half inch. This is known as a hanging indent. • Double space all entries, with no skipped spaces between entries.
Information form Basic Paper Format Packet • Keep in mind that underlining and italics are equivalent; you should select one or the other to use throughout. Be consistent. • Alphabetize the list of works cited by the first word (unless “The” or “A”) in each entry (usually the author's last name). • Do not number or put bullets before each entry.
Format of Works Cited page • Written on a separate page in the paper. • Follow the MLA style. • You must have a minimum of five sources. • You must have a variety of sources (no more than half can be websites).
How do I Cite a Source? • Authors' names are inverted (last name first); if a work has more than one author, invert only the first author's name, follow it with a comma, then continue listing the rest of the authors. • If you have cited more than one work by a particular author, order them alphabetically by title, and use three hyphens in place of the author's name for every entry after the first. • When an author appears both as the sole author of a text and as the first author of a group, list solo-author entries first. • If no author is given for a particular work, alphabetize by the title of the piece and use a shortened version of the title for parenthetical citations.
How do I Cite a Source? • Capitalize each word in the titles of articles, books, etc. This rule does not apply to articles, short prepositions, or conjunctions unless one is the first word of the title or subtitle. • Underline or italicize titles of books, journals, magazines, newspapers, and films. • Use quotation marks around the titles of articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers. Also use quotation marks for the titles of short stories, book chapters, poems, and songs. • List page numbers efficiently, when needed. If you refer to a journal article that appeared on pages 225 through 250, list the page numbers on your Works Cited page as 225-50.
MLA Style • MLA Style is geared more towards humanities writing than science. • We are using the 7th version. • If you use an on-line style writer, be sure to check it afterwards to make sure the works was cited correctly.
MLA Format: books Books Author(s). Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Print. Book with one author Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. Denver: MacMurray, 1999. Print.
MLA Format: books Book with more than one author Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn, 2000. Print. • If there are more than three authors, you may list only the first author followed by the phrase et al. (the abbreviation for the Latin phrase "and others") in place of the other authors' names, or you may list all the authors in the order in which their names appear on the title page.
MLA Format: journals An article in a scholarly journal Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal Vol (Year): pages. Print. "Vol" indicates the volume number of the journal. If the journal uses continuous pagination throughout a particular volume, only volume and year are needed, e.g. Modern Fiction Studies 40 (1998): 251-81. If each issue of the journal begins on page 1, however, you must also provide the issue number following the volume, e.g. Mosaic 19.3 (1986): 33-49.
MLA Format: journals Journal with continuous pagination Allen, Emily. "Staging Identity: Frances Burney's Allegory of Genre." Eighteenth-Century Studies 31 (1998): 433-51. Print. Journal that pages each issue separately Duvall, John N. "The (Super)Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Mediation in DeLillo'sWhite Noise." Arizona Quarterly 50.3 (1994): 127-53. Print.
MLA Format: journals JOURNAL ARTICLE - PRINT Valetta, E., D. Ulmi, I. Mabboni, F. Tomasselli, and L. Pinelli. “Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Celiac Disease in Type 1 Diabetes: A Longitudinal, Case-Control Study”. Medical and Surgical Pediatrics 29 (2007):99-104. JOURNAL ARTICLE – ONLINE DATABASE (Periodical Publication in an Online Database) Valetta, E., D. Ulmi, I. Mabboni, F. Tomasselli, and L. Pinelli. “Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Celiac Disease in Type 1 Diabetes: A Longitudinal, Case-Control Study”. Medical and Surgical Pediatrics 29 (2007):99-104. PubMed. Web. 12 Sep. 2010. <http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/pudmed/17461097>.
Electronic Sources • You may use .gov and .edu sources without question (unless it is a professor’s homepage – then you must get permission). • These sites are generally peer reviewed and thus can be assumed to be the most accurate.
Electronic Sources • If you want to use .com, .org, .net, etc. you must get permission from Mrs. Brim. • To get permission, go to Brim’s science fair website: Here are some criteria to go through when determining if a website is okay to use as a source. If the website you want to use is not pre-approved (not .edu or .gov), then you will need to fill out this form and return it to Mrs. Brim to request permission to use the website.
Electronic Sources • Download the form • Fill in the required information • Return it Mrs. Brim via e-mail • She will review it and let you know.
MLA Format: electronic source Basic Formats for Electronic Sources • If no author is given for a web page or electronic source, start with and alphabetize by the title of the piece and use a shortened version of the title for parenthetical citations. • The date of posting or revision is usually at the bottom of the page – scroll down to the bottom.
MLA Format: electronic source • Author(s). Name of Page. Name of institution/ organization affiliated with the site, Date of Posting/Revision. Web. Date of Access. <URL>. • Author(s)."Article Title." Title of web site. Name of institution/organization affiliated with site, Date of posting/revision. Web. Date of access. <URL>.
MLA Format: electronic source Examples Felluga, Dino. Undergraduate Guide to Literary Theory. Purdue University, 17 Dec. 1999. Web. 15 Nov. 2000. <http://omni.cc.purdue. edu%7Efelluga/theory2.html>. Purdue Online Writing Lab. Purdue University, 2003. Web. 10 Feb. 2003. <http://owl.english.purdue.edu>.
MLA Format: electronic source Poland, Dave. "The Hot Button." Roughcut. Turner Network Television. 26 Oct. 1998. Web. 28 Oct. 1998. <http://www.roughcut.com>. "Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format." Purdue Online Writing Lab. Purdue University, 2003. Web. 6 Feb. 2003. <http://owl.english.purdue.eduhandouts/ research/r_mla.html>.
Online Journal Article JOURNAL ARTICLE - PRINT Valetta, E., D. Ulmi, I. Mabboni, F. Tomasselli, and L. Pinelli. “Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Celiac Disease in Type 1 Diabetes: A Longitudinal, Case-Control Study”. Medical and Surgical Pediatrics 29 (2007):99-104. JOURNAL ARTICLE – ONLINE DATABASE (Periodical Publication in an Online Database) Valetta, E., D. Ulmi, I. Mabboni, F. Tomasselli, and L. Pinelli. “Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Celiac Disease in Type 1 Diabetes: A Longitudinal, Case-Control Study”. Medical and Surgical Pediatrics 29 (2007):99-104. PubMed. Web. 12 Sep. 2010. <http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/pudmed/17461097>.
Works Cited Page • There are many different kinds of sources • Each has its own format. • Use your Basic Paper Format or other reliable source to make sure your have cited your course correctly. • The following is a sample Works Cited page.
Works Cited "Blueprint Lays Out Clear Path for Climate Action." Environmental Defense Fund. Environmental Defense Fund, 8 May 2007. Web. 24 May 2009. < http://www.edf.org/article.cfm?contentID=5828>. Clinton, Bill. Interview by Andrew C. Revkin. “Clinton on Climate Change.” New York Times. New York Times, May 2007. Web. 25 May 2009. <http://video.on.nytimes.com/>. Dean, Cornelia. "Executive on a Mission: Saving the Planet." New York Times. New York Times, 22 May 2007. Web. 25 May 2009. <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/science/earth/22ander.html>.
Ebert, Roger. "An Inconvenient Truth." Rev. of An Inconvenient Truth, dir. Davis Guggenheim. Rogerebert.com. Sun-Times News Group, 2 June 2006. Web. 24 May 2009. <http://rogerebert.suntimes.com>. GlobalWarming.org. Cooler Heads Coalition, 2007. Web. 24 May 2009. Gowdy, John. "Avoiding Self-organized Extinction: Toward a Co-evolutionary Economics of Sustainability." International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology 14.1 (2007): 27-36. Print. An Inconvenient Truth. Dir. Davis Guggenheim. Perf. Al Gore, Billy West. Paramount, 2006. DVD.
Leroux, Marcel. Global Warming: Myth Or Reality?: The Erring Ways of Climatology. New York: Springer, 2005. Print. Milken, Michael, Gary Becker, Myron Scholes, and Daniel Kahneman. "On Global Warming and Financial Imbalances." New Perspectives Quarterly 23.4 (2006): 63. Print Nordhaus, William D. "After Kyoto: Alternative Mechanisms to Control Global Warming." American Economic Review 96.2 (2006): 31-34. Print. ---. "Global Warming Economics." Science 9 Nov. 2001: 1283-84. Print. Shulte, Bret. "Putting a Price on Pollution." Usnews.com. US News & World Rept., 6 May 2007. Web. 24 May 2009. < http://www.usnews.com/usnews/ news/articles/070506/14climate.htm>.
Research Plan • For your paperwork, you must have a part D, Bibliography. • This is your Works Cited information. • You must have 5+ sources, cited in MLA style with no more than one half coming from the internet.