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MLA - Works Cited Page

The list of works cited appears at the end of your paper and, as its title suggests, lists only the works you have cited in your paper.  Here are a few of the basic guidelines involved in the preparation of the works cited page: paginate the Works Cited section as a continuation of your text; double-space between successive lines of an entry and between entries; begin the first line of an entry flush left, and indent successive lines five spaces or one-half inch; list entries in alphabetical order according to the last name of the author; if you are listing more than one work by the same author, alphabetize the works according to title; and instead of repeating the author’s name, type three hyphens and a period, and then give the title.

SAMPLE ENTRIES IN THE WORKS CITED

A Book by One Author
Boorstin, Daniel J. The Creators: A History of the Heroes of the Imagination.

New York: Random, 1992.

Two or More Books by the Same Author
Garreau, Joel. Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. New York: Doubleday, 1991.

---. The Nine Nations of North America. Boston: Houghton, 1981.

A Book by Two or More Authors
Vare, Ethlie Ann, and Greg Ptacek. Mothers of Invention: Forgotten Women

and Their Unforgettable Ideas. New York: Morrow, 1988.

Atwan, Robert, Donald McQuade, and John W. Wright.  Edsels, Luckies, and

Frigidaires: Advertising the American Way. New York: Dell, 1979.

A Work in an Anthology
Silko, Leslie Marmon. “The Man to Send Rain Clouds.”  Imagining America: Stories

from the Promised Land. Ed. Wesley Brown and Amy Ling. New York:

Persea, 1991. 191-95.

A Government Document
United States. Cong. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Immigration and

Nationality Act with Amendments and Notes on Related Laws. 7th ed.

Washington:  GPO, 1980.

An Unpublished Dissertation
Geissinger, Shirley Burry. “Openness versus Secrecy in Adoptive Parenthood.”

Diss. U of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1984.

Corporate Author
Fidelity Investments. Mutual Fund Services Handbook. Boston: Fidelity

Investments, 1991.

Editor
Dubus, Andre, ed. Into the Silence: American Stories. Cambridge: Green Street,

1988.

Author with an Editor
Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography and Other Writings. Ed. Kenneth

Silverman. New York: Penguin, 1986.

ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS

Signed Article from a Daily Newspaper
Barringer, Felicity. “Where Many Elderly Live, Signs of the Future.” New York

Times 7 Mar. 1993, nat. ed., sec. 1: 12.

An Article from a Monthly or Bimonthly Magazine
Willis, Gary. “The Words That Remade America: Lincoln at Gettysburg.” Atlantic

June 1992: 57-79.

An Article from a Weekly or Biweekly Magazine
Trillin, Calvin. “Culture Shopping.” New Yorker 15 Feb. 1993: 48-51.

An Article in a Journal with Continuous Pagination
Elbow, Peter. “Ranking, Evaluating, and Linking: Sorting Out Three Forms of

Judgment.” College English 55 (1993): 187-206.

An Article in a Journal That Numbers Pages in Each Issue Separately
Seely, Bruce. “The Saga of American Infrastructure: A Republic Bound Together.”

Wilson Quarterly 17.1 (1993): 19-39.

OTHER SOURCES

Bible
Bible, Revised Standard.

Interviews
Smith, James. Personal interview. 20 Dec. 1989.

Films, Radio and Television Programs
The Last Emperor. Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci. With John Lone and Peter O’Toole.

Columbia, 1987.

“If God Ever Listened: A Portrait of Alice Walker.” Horizons. Prod. Jane Rosenthal.

NPR. WBST, Muncie. 3 Mar. 1984.

“The Hero’s Adventure.” Moyers: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth. Prod.

Catherine Tatge. PBS. WNET,  New York. 23 May 1988.

Recordings
Mozart, Wolfgang A. Cosi Fan Tutte. Record. With Kiri Te Kanawa, Frederica von

Stade, David Rendall, and Philippe Huttenlocher. Cond. Alain Lombard.

Strasbourg Philharmonic Orch. RCA, SRL3-2629, 1978.

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Last Updated: 11/18/11