63. Create a Works Cited Page

63. Create a Works Cited Page:

At the end of an essay which has parenthetical notation, you must have a Works Cited page. You must list all of the works in alphabetical order according to the author’s last name or other entry. Follow the guide below.

A Bibliography contains all of the works read in preparation for the paper but not necessarily cited in the paper. This is used in a Research Paper. A Works Cited Page contains only the works quoted in the paper.

Here is a Works Cited entry for a book:

Last Name, First Name. Title. Place of Publishing: Publisher, Date of Publishing.

For example:

Thoreau, Henry. Walden. Boston: Little Brown, 1989.

If the citation is longer than one line, indent the second line to the end of the author’s name. This allows the author’s name to standout out for quick reference.

For multiple works by the same author, list the title, place of publishing, publisher, and date below the first citation and indent beyond the author’s name.

For short stories or essays within a book, place the title in quotations before the title of the book and offset it from the title of the book with a comma.

Works Cited Notation:

WORLD WIDE WEB:

Citing Web sources is constantly changing and evolving. A good source for information is from the Trinity College Library. It is easy to use and gives good examples in the MLA format. If you don’t see what you need here, go to this website: MLA Style; Purdue OWL

You’ll need to collect the following information:

• • Author and/or editor names (if available)

  • Article name in quotation marks.

  • Title of the website, project, or book in italics.

  • Any version numbers available, including editions (ed.), revisions, posting dates, volumes (vol.), or issue numbers (no.).

  • Publisher information, including the publisher name and publishing date.

  • Take note of any page numbers (p. or pp.) or paragraph numbers (par. or pars.).

  • Date you accessed the material (Date Accessed).

  • URL (without the https://) DOI or permalink.

General format:

Last name of author, First name. "Post Title." Site Title, Post date or last update (if available), URL. Accessed [date].

The final format is:

Lundman, Susan. "How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow, www.ehow.com/how_10727_make-vegetarian-chili.html. Accessed

6 July 2015.

An entire website:

Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. Purdue U, 28 Nov. 2003, www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/.

Accessed 10 May 2006.

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.

A page on a website:

"Athlete's Foot - Topic Overview." WebMD, 25 Sept. 2014, www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/tc/athletes-foot-topic-overview.

Lundman, Susan. "How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow, www.ehow.com/how_10727_make-vegetarian-chili.html. Accessed 6 July 2015.

An article in a web magazine/newspaper:

Bernstein, Mark. "10 Tips on Writing the Living Web." A List Apart: For People Who

Make Websites, 16 Aug. 2002, alistapart.com/article/writeliving. Accessed 4 May

2009.

An email:

Kunka, Andrew. "Re: Modernist Literature." Received by John Watts, 15 Nov. 2000.

Neyhart, David. "Re: Online Tutoring." Received by Joe Barbato, 1 Dec. 2016.

A tweet:

@tombrokaw. "SC demonstrated why all the debates are the engines of this campaign." Twitter, 22 Jan. 2012, 3:06 a.m., twitter.com/tombrokaw/status/160996868971704320.

@PurdueWLab. "Spring break is around the corner, and all our locations will be open next week." Twitter, 5 Mar. 2012, 12:58 p.m., twitter.com/PurdueWLab/status/176728308736737282.

A YouTube Video:

“8 Hot Dog Gadgets put to the Test.” YouTube, uploaded by Crazy Russian Hacker, 6 Jun. 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBlpjSEtELs.

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

A Comment on a Website or Article:

Not Omniscent Enough. Comment on "Flight Attendant Tells Passenger to ‘Shut Up’ After Argument After Pasta." ABC News, 9 Jun 2016, 4:00 p.m., abcnews.go.com/US/flight-attendant-tells-passenger-shut-argument-pasta/story?id=39704050.

Kindle or e-books:

Theile, Verena and Linda Tredennick, editors. New Formalism and Literary Theory. Kindle ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

For Example:

WORKS CITED:

Berry, Wendell. Recollected Essays. San Francisco: North Point Press,

1981.

Branch, Michael. “Ecocriticism: The Nature of Nature in Literary Theory

and Practice,” Weber Studies. Vol. 11, No. 1, Winter 1994.

Buell, Lawrence. The Environmental Imagination. Cambridge: Harvard

University Press, 1995.

Glotfelty, Cheryll. The Ecocriticism Reader. Athens: University of Georgia

Press, 1996.

Huss, Phil. Online Discussion Web. <http://207.14.177.8/Engl/web_disc/index2.html> Accessed: April 29, 2003.

Lopez, Barry. Crossing Open Ground. New York: Vintage Books, 1989.

Love, Glen A. “Et in Arcadia: Pastoral Theory Meets Ecocriticism,” Western American Literature. Vol. 27, No. 3,

Nov. 1992.

Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. New York: North Point Press, 1990.

- No Nature. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.

Wordsworth, William. The Prelude: 1805. New York: Norton, 1979.

-commentary: notice how the author’s last name is prominent because the second line does not begin until the author’s first name.

BOOKS

By a single author:

Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land, the Great Black

Migration and How It Changed America. New York:

Knopf, 1991.

Two authors:

Gibaldi, Joseph, and Walter S. Achtert. MLA Handbook for

Writers of Research Papers. 3rd ed. New York: Modern Language Association, 1988.

Three authors:

Venolia, Jean P., Georgio Cordini, and Joseph Hitchcock.

What Makes a Literary Masterpiece. Chicago: Hudson, 1995.

More than three authors:

Bailyn, Bernard, et al. The Great Republic. Lexington,

MA: D. C. Heath, 1977.

Unknown author:

The Bible, a New Translation. Trans. James Moffatt. New

York:Harper and Row, 1954.

Multi-volume Work:

Doriva Bernard. Twentieth Century Painters. 2 vols. New York: Universe

Books, 1958.

Collection produced by an editor:

Guernsey, Otis L., Jr., and Jeffrey Sweet, eds. The Burns

Mantle Theater Yearbook of 1989-90. New York: Applause, 1990.

One essay or article from an anthology or a collection:

Margulies, Donald. “The Loman Family Picnic, a Play in Two

Acts.” The Burns Mantle Theater Yearbook of 1989-90. New York: Applause,1990. 131-50.

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REFERENCE SOURCES

A simplified citation is commonly used for general encyclopedias. Include publication information for subject encyclopedias. Include volume or page number(s) only if the articles are not in alphabetical

order.

Article in a general encyclopedia:

Trainen, Martha. “New York State.” Encyclopedia

Americana. 1992.

PERIODICAL ARTICLES

Each periodical entry must include author’s name (when shown), title of article, periodical name and page numbers. Journal citations should also include the volume and issue number, and the

publication year. For magazine and newspaper citations, omit the volume and issue number and include the complete date. For articles from electronic sources, see Full-Text Articles below.

Journal articles:

Wernerfelt, Birgner. “Advertising Content When Brand

Choice Is a Signal.” Journal of Business 63.1 (1990): 91-98.

Articles in weekly publications:

Ryback, Timothy W. “Letter from Salzburg.” New Yorker 30

Dec. 1991: 62-75.

Articles in monthly publications:

Alford, Jeffrey. “Ap Nam? Kin Khao? Feeling at Home in

Thai Kitchens.” Eating Well Jan. - Feb. 1992: 44-55.

Newspaper Articles:

Miller, David. “Tightening the Belt.” Seattle Times 5 Jan.

1992: A1.

Anonymous Articles:

“Saddam’s Republican Guards.” Time 4 Feb. 1991: 24.

Editorials:

Schmemann, Serge. “The World According to Gorbachev Disappears.” Editorial. New York Times 8 Dec. 1991: E3.

FULL-TEXT ARTICLES FROM ELECTRONIC DATABASES

A citation for an article from a Full-text Periodical database starts off much like any periodical citation, except for some changes with the punctuation and underlining. Add the format of the database

(i.e., CD-ROM) and the publisher and publication date of the database. For articles that do not have URLs, cite the main page for the database and include the library through which you gained

access.

For other Full-text databases, include the author (if applicable), name of the piece, name of the database, format of the database, and the publisher and publication date of the database.

Periodical Database accessed on the WWW:

Keegan, John, and Tom Wolfe. “Who Should be Person of the

Century?” Time 30 August 1999: 15+ ProQuest Direct. Bell & Howell Learning and Information. Seattle Central Community College Lib. 25 Sep. 1999. <http://www.umi.com/pdqauto>.

PAMPHLETS

Treat a pamphlet as you would a book:

Outsmarting Crime: A Guide to Safer Living. n.p.:

Washington Criminal Justice Training Commission, 1990.

AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS

In general, citations for AV materials must include author (if available), title, producing company and date. Other elements vary depending on the type of material, so refer to the MLA Handbook. For music, if you are using a format other than compact disc (CD), indicate as shown in the examples below.

Videos:

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dir. Denise Guyen. Videocassette. SVE Inc.,

1988.

Television or Radio Program:

“Cuba and Cocaine.” Narr. Bill Moyers. Frontline. Documentary

Consortium. PBS. WTVS, Miami. 18 Jan. 1990.

Citing Web pages:

Parenthetic notation in the text:

(www.nameofsite.org Date last visited)

(www.nytimes.com April 29, 2003)