MG updated 6/2011

Whenever you do research and take information from another source, you need to tell your reader where you got
by using a Works Cited page. Not citing your sources is plagiarism, which is cheating!!!

Include as much information in the entry as possible. However, if you cannot find all the information (websites
are always tricky), put down as much as you can.
Works Cited pages are arranged alphabetically by the first item in the citation!
MLA dates are: Day Month Year; Works Citeds only use the first 3 letters of the month. (Jan, Feb, etc )
Medium refers to the mediums of publication means the type of publication the source was found in. Most
common are Print (actual paper copies) and Web (online). Other media are: Podcast, Documentary, Blog,
Video, Video Blog, etc.
All titles are now italicized.

Below is the format for some common works cited entries you will have to make:

Book with One Author*
Author LastName, FirstName. Book Title. City Published: Publication Company, Year. Medium.

*For an editor, place ed after the editor:
Editor LastName, FirstName, ed. Book Title. City Published: Publication Company, Year. .

Book with Two Authors or Editors
First Author Last Name, FirstName and Second Author FirstName LastName. Book Title. City Published:
Publication Company, Year. Medium.

Any work with three or more authors
List only the first author, then add , et. al. This indicates three or more authors.

Article in a Book
Article Author LastName, FirstName. Article Title. Book Title. Ed. Editors FirstName LastName. Number
of Book Volumes. City Published: Publication Company, Year. Page number(s) of article. Medium.

A Website
Site Author LastName, FirstName (if an author, not an institution). "Name of Specific Page." Name of Entire
Site. Name of institution/organization publishing the site (often found near copyright statements). Date
of Posting/Revision. Medium. Date you accessed the site <URL>.

Article in a Newspaper
Article Author LastName, FirstName. Article Title. Newspaper Name Date of Article, edition: page number.
Medium ***.

Article in a Magazine
Article Author LastName, FirstName. Article Title. Magazine Name Publication Date: Pages. Medium***.

Article in a Scholarly Journal
Article Author LastName, FirstName. Article Title. Journal Name Volume number.Issue Number
(Publication Date): Page Number(s). Medium ***.

***When you find a newspaper article, magazine article, or scholarly journal article online, copy the
Works Cited Entry as you would if you had found the hard copy, up until where you would put the page
number. Then, add the online information for the article: Page numbers(s) or put n. pag. instead of page
numbers if there is no page pr the number+ if you know what page the article begins on but not the one it ends
on. Database Name. Medium of Publication. Date you accessed the article. Database Homepage URL.
MG updated 6/2011


Works Cited
Bradbury, Ray. At What Temperature Do Books Burn? The Writer 80 (1967): 18-20. Print.
Eggins, Suzzane, and Diana Slade. Analysing Casual Conversation. London: Cassell, 1997. Print.
Elderly Drivers Must Be Tested. The Enterprise 12 Feb. 2008, weekday ed. Web. 13 Feb. 2008.
<http://enterprise. southofboston.com>
Le Patourel, John. Normans and Normandy. Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Ed. Joseph R. Strayer.
13 vols. New York: Scribners, 1987. Print.
Lopate, Phillip, ed. The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Cassical era to the Present.
New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1994. Print.
Mehta, Pratap Bhanu. Exploding Myths. New Republic 6 Jun. 1998: 17-19. Print.
Purdue OWL Family of Sites, The. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue University. 2011.
Web. 14 Mar. 2011 <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/>.
Quirk, Randolph, et al. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman,
1985. Print.
Widdman, Richard A. How 'Fahrenheit 451' Trends Threaten Intellectual Freedom. Committee for
Open Debate on the Holocaust. 2 Sep. 2006. Web. 17 Mar. 2007.
<http://www.codoh.com/F451.html>.
Womack, Kenneth. Authorship and the Beatles. College Literature 34 (01 Jul. 2007): 161+.
Elibrary. 12 Feb. 2008. <http://www.elibrary.com>
Please note: Your works cited page should visually look like
the one above. The labels to the right are just for your
information.