English Composition 1

Preparing the Works Cited Page for Essay 3

This page should help you prepare the Works Cited page for Essay 3. For more information, see Documenting Sources from Online Databases and Citing and Documenting Online Sources.

The Stories

The stories "The Revolt of Mother" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" should be listed on the Works Cited page as indicated below:

Works Cited

Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins. “The Revolt of Mother.” English Composition 1. Illinois Valley Community College, n.d. Web. 10 Aug. 2009.

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “The Yellow Wallpaper.” English Composition 1. Illinois Valley Community College, n.d. Web. 12 Aug. 2009.

Sources from Online Databases

Sources from First Search, ProQuest Direct, EBSCOHost, JSTOR, or other online databases should be listed on the Works Cited page following the format below. See Documenting Sources from Online Databases for more information.

Basic format:

Author's last name, Author's first and middle name. "Title of the Essay." Title of the Journal Volume number.Issue number (year): page numbers. Name of Database. Web. Date you access the information, in the format 16 Aug. 2009.

Example:

Works Cited

Cutter, Martha J. “Frontiers of Language: Engendering Discourse in 'The Revolt of "Mother."'" American Literature 63.2 (1991): 279-91. JSTOR. Web. 28 July 2009.

Other Sources

For online sources except those in subscription databases, you should follow the basic format presented on the Citing and Documenting Online Sources page. However, there are many variations of how to list sources, depending on the information that is provided for the source. If it is given, you should add information such as the title of the online journal, the volume and issue number, the date of publication or posting, and the name of the database. Original publication information should be included for Gilman's essay "Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper.”

Basic format:

Author's last name, Author's first and middle name. "Title of the Essay." Title of the Web site. Publisher or sponsor of the Web site, date of publication. Web. Date you access the information, in the format 16 Oct. 2009.

Examples:

Works Cited

Daniel, Janice. “Redefining Place: Femes Covert in the Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman--Covered, Confined or Enclosed Women.” Studies in Short Fiction Winter 1996. FindArticles. Web. 6 Aug. 2009.

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper.” The Forerunner Oct. 1913. American Literature Since 1865. University of Virginia, n.d. Web 8 Aug. 2009.

Mahin, Michael James. “The Awakening and The Yellow Wallpaper: An Intertextual Comparison of the ‘Conventional’ Connotations of Marriage and Propriety.” Domestic Goddesses. Ed. Kim Wells. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Aug. 2009.

Miscellaneous Information

Works should be listed in alphabetical order, according to the author's last name.
The Works Cited page should be double spaced, with no extra spacing anywhere.
The URL (or Web address) should be included for a source only if you think readers will have difficulty finding the source without the URL or if your instructor requires that you list the URLs. In most cases, the URL is not needed. If the URL is given, it should appear as the last information for the source and should appear in angle brackets, in the format <http://www.completewebaddress/foryoursource.edu>.
The listings on the Works Cited page use a "hanging indent" (first line of a work not indented, each line after the first indented).
The first letter of each important word in titles should be capitalized, regardless of how the titles are presented where the articles appear.