MLA STYLE WORKS CITED PAGE
A) INFORMATION NEEDED TO CITE A WEBSITE:
Author/Editor (if given)
Title of page
Name of Host of Website (Go back to the first “/” and see what it says)
Date of last update to website
Date you use the website (day month year)
Web Address
How it appears on your Works Cited page:
Ovid. Apollo and Daphne. Mythology Guide. 2002. 8 Dec. 2003. http://www.online-mythology.com/apollo_daphne/. Web.
B) INFORMATION NEEDED TO CITE A BOOK:
Author/Editor
Title
Place Published
Publisher
Date
How it appears on your Works Cited page:
Smith, Robert. Life in the Rainforest. New York: Greenwood Press, 1999. Print.
C) INFORMATION TO CITE A REFERENCE BOOK WITH EDITORS:
Author of article (if given)
Title of Article
Name of Encyclopedia or other Reference
Publication Date
How it appears on your Works Cited page
Jones, Emma. “Birds.” World Book Encyclopedia. 2001. Print.
D) FOR JUST ABOUT ANY SOURCE, FOLLOW THIS PATTERN:
Author Last Name, Author First Name. “Article.” or Title. Place of Publication: Publisher, year. Media. (See below for citing class notes. You can also cite the Power Point program on-line.)
Your Works Cited page should look something like the following example. List your sources in alphabetical order, beginning with whatever information you have first. Bring it to the margin first and then indent. If there is no author listed, begin at the margin with the title. If there is no title, begin with the next thing.
Works Cited
Erdoes, Richard, and Alphonzo Ortiz, eds. “Earth Making.” American Indian Myths and Legends. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1984: 105-107. Print.
Euripides. Iphigeneia at Aulis. Trans. W.S. Merwin and George E. Dimock, Jr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Print.
Jones, Emma. “Birds.” World Book Encyclopedia. 2001. Print.
Ovid. Apollo and Daphne. Mythology Guide. 2002. 8 Dec. 2003. http://www.online-mythology.com/apollo_daphne/. Web.
Rienzi, William. Philosophy in Our Life. Power Point Class Notes. 18 Mar. 2001.
“Zillions of Miracles.” Journal of International Wonders. June 2004:14-16. Print.
For citations within your paper: You may use the E-Z method:
· Every time you paraphrase a source, put the author and page number in parentheses after the period. (Natasha 10)
· “Every time you quote a source, put the author and page number within the sentence” (Boris 5).
· If there is no author, use the title of the article shortened to its first word. For example, an article titled, “Lusty Pirates in the New World” could be shortened to (“Lusty” 8). If there is no page number, leave it out.
· The more correct way to cite sources within the paper is to leave the author’s name out if your previous citation was the same work. And, if you mention the name of the author and the book within your paragraph, you need only cite the page number.
· For literary references, you need only provide a citation if you use a direct quote. This would be a page number for novels, Act and Scene for plays, and line numbers for verse. If you paraphrase or cite events, no citation is necessary, as long as the source for the information is clear.
Check the citation maker link which will format your sources for you!
http://secondary.oslis.org/cite-sources/mla-secondary-citation