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ECC - Citation Libguide: MLA Works Cited Page

An indepth libguide for APA and MLA citations

Basic Rules

  • Begin your Works Cited page on a separate page at the end of your research paper. It should have the same one-inch margins and last name, page number header as the rest of your paper.
  • Label the page Works Cited (do not italicize the words Works Cited or put them in quotation marks) and center the words Works Cited at the top of the page.
    • Only the title should be centered. The citation entries themselves should be aligned with the left margin.
  • Double space all citations, but do not skip spaces between entries.
  • Indent the second and subsequent lines of citations by 0.5 inches to create a hanging indent.
  • List page numbers of sources 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 pp. 225-50 (Note: MLA style dictates that you should omit the first sets of repeated digits. In our example, the digit in the hundreds place is repeated between 225 and 250, so you omit the 2 from 250 in the citation: pp. 225-50). If the excerpt spans multiple pages, use “pp.”   Note that MLA style uses a hyphen in a span of pages.
  • If only one page of a print source is used, mark it with the abbreviation “p.” before the page number (e.g., p.157). If a span of pages is used, mark it with the abbreviation “pp.” before the page number (e.g., pp.157-68).
  • If you're citing an article or a publication that was originally issued in print form but that you retrieved from an online database, you should type the online database name in italics. You do not need to provide subscription information in addition to the database name.

 

*Information copied directly from the MLA works Cited Page by the OWL at Purdue

Books

Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. City of Publication,           Publisher, Publication Date.

*Note: the City of Publication should only be used if the book was published before 1900, if the publisher has offices in more than one country, or if the publisher is unknown in North America.

 

BOOK WITH ONE AUTHOR

Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. Penguin,            1987.

 

BOOK WITH MORE THAN ONE AUTHOR

Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon              Guide to Peer Tutoring. Allyn and Bacon, 2000.

Information provided from the OWL at Purdue

Magazines

ARTICLE IN A MAGAZINE

 

Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Periodical, Day Month         Year, pages.

Poniewozik, James. "TV Makes a Too-Close Call." Time, 20         Nov. 2000, pp. 70-71.

 

ARTICLE IN A NEWSPAPER

Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Title of                        Newspaper, Day Month Year, Page.

Brubaker, Bill. "New Health Center Targets County's                  Uninsured Patients." Washington Post, 24 May 2007, p.         LZ01.

 

Information taken from the OWL at Purdue

Electronic Resources

E-BOOK

Silva, Paul J. How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to              Productive Academic Writing. E-book, American                  Psychological Association, 2007.

 

ARTICLE IN AN ONLINE SCHOLARLY JOURNAL

Alonso, Alvaro, and Julio A. Camargo. “Toxicity of Nitrite to         Three Species of Freshwater                                               Invertebrates.” Environmental Toxicology, vol. 21, no.         1, 3 Feb. 2006, pp. 90-94. Wiley Online Library,                 doi:10.1002/tox.20155. Accessed 26 May 2009.

 

YOUTUBE VIDEO

McGonigal, Jane. “Gaming and Productivity.” YouTube,             uploaded by Big Think, 3 July 2012,                                   www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkdzy9bWW3E.

 

CITING AN ENTIRE WEB SITE

Author, or compiler name (if available). Name of Site.               Version number (if available), Name of                               institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor       or publisher), date of resource creation (if available),           DOI (preferred), otherwise include a URL or permalink.       Date of access (if applicable).

The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL       at Purdue and Purdue U, 2008,                                           owl.english.purdue.edu/owl. Accessed 23 Apr. 2008.

 

INSTAGRAM PHOTO OR VIDEO

Lastname, F. M. or Name of Group [@username]. (Year,            Month Date). Content of the post up to the first 20              words [Type of post]. Site Name. URL

BBC [@bbc]. (2020, January 12). Skywatchers have been          treated to the first full moon of 2020-known as a “wolf        moon”-at the same time as a [Photograph].                    Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/B7OkWqbBwcf/

Information taken from the OWL at Purdue