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MLA Documentation and
the "Works Cited" Page |
There are
many different types of sources you might use in a paper
and a specific and correct way to document each type of
source on the "Works Cited" page. Below are
models for the ways you should document the two most
common types of sources.
A book with
one or more authors
| Last name of
author, First name of author. Title of Book.
City of publication: |
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name of publisher, year of publication. |
An article or work in a collection of articles
or works by different authors
| Last name of
author of article, First name of author.
"Title of Article." Title of |
|
Book. Ed(s). Name of editor(s) of book.
City of publication: name of |
|
publisher, year of publication. page
numbers of article (such as 125-46). |
The spacing
and punctuation in the examples above is correct. Any
other punctuation or spacing is incorrect.
Miscellaneous
Information about the "Works Cited" Page
- Every work listed on
the "Works Cited" page must be cited in
the paper, and every work cited in the paper must
appear on the "Works Cited" page.
- All entries on the
"Works Cited" page should be
double-spaced, with no extra spaces between
entries. The words "Works Cited" (with
no quotation marks) should be centered at the top
of the page, with double double-spacing
separating the words "Works Cited" from
the first entry. (If your paper is double spaced,
just press [Enter] twice after typing "Works
Cited.")
- Entries are listed in
alphabetical order, according to the
author’s last name. If no author's name is
given, begin with the title of the source and
alphabetize the source according to the first
word of its title.
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