Works Cited
Directions: These sources were used to write a recent research paper. Write them in the correct MLA format for a works cited or bibliography page below.
Magazine Article
Author: Anne McGrath
Article Title: A New Read on Teen Literacy
Magazine Title: U.S. News & World Report
Date: February 28, 2005
Pages: 68-70
Book
Author: Edward Cornish
Title: Futuring: The Exploration of the Future
City of Publication: Bethesda, Maryland
Publisher: World Future Society
Date: 2004
Newspaper Article from the internet
Author: James ‘ONeill
Article Title: Richland is Given Award for Quality Management
Newspaper Title: Dallas Morning News
Date: April 20, 2006
Date of access: use today’s date
Pages: 6B
Website:
Journal Article
Author: Markus Greiner, Olaf Mandel, Tilman Esslinger, Theodor W. Hänsch and Immanuel Bloch
Article Title: Quantum Phase Transition from a Superfluid to a Mott Insulator in a Gas of Ultracold Atoms
Journal Title: Nature
Date: January 3, 2002
Volume: 415
Issue: 6867
Pages: 39-44
Website
Title of Page: Children’s Alliance: Child Obesity
Title of Site: Children’s Alliance
Date of access: use today’s date
URL (Web address):
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Works Cited
Cornish, Edward. Futuring: The Exploration of the Future. Bethesda, Maryland: World Future Society, 2004.
Greiner, Markus, Olaf Mandel, Tilman Esslinger, Theodor W. Hänsch and Immanuel Bloch. “Quantum Phase Transition from a Superfluid to a Mott Insulator in a Gas of Ultracold Atoms”. Nature. January 3, 2002: 39-44
McGrath, Anne.“A New Read on Teen Literacy.” U.S. News & World Report 28 Feb.2005: 68-70
‘ONeill, James. “Richland is Given Award for Quality Management.” Dallas Morning News [Dallas, TX] 20 Apr. 2006. 18 May 2012. < >
Unknown. Children’s Alliance: Child Obesity. Children’s Alliance. Web. 18 May 2012. <
MLA documentation: in-text citations
MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author's last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author's name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:
Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263).
Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263).
Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).
Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth.
Circle the letter of the MLA in-text citation that is handled correctly.
Example:
The student is quoting from page 163 of the following book:
Hentoff, Nat. Listen to the Stories. New York: Harper, 1995. Print.
a. An interviewer explains that country musician Merle Haggard “is not happy about much that iscurrently being packaged as ‘country.’ He will name no names but is manifestly disgusted bymost of what’s on the charts” (Hentoff 163).
b. An interviewer explains that country musician Merle Haggard “is not happy about much that iscurrently being packaged as ‘country.’ He will name no names but is manifestly disgusted bymost of what’s on the charts” (163).
1. The student is quoting from page 148 of the following magazine article:
Als, Hilton. “Wayward Girl.” New Yorker 18-25 Aug. 2003: 147-49. Print.
a. Als describes Cat Power as “a storyteller . . . [who] cares more about how she sayssomething than about what she says.” (148)
b. Als describes Cat Power as “a storyteller . . . [who] cares more about how she sayssomething than about what she says” (148).
2. The student is quoting from page 281 of the following article:
Mead, Rebecca. “Sex, Drugs, and Fiddling.” Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000. Ed.
PeterGuralnick and Douglas Wolk. Cambridge: Da Capo, 2000. 281-93. Print.
a. One startling description of fiddler Ashley MacIsaac begins, “Although wrecking a hotelroom is standard rock-star behavior, it is unusual for the instrument of destruction tobe a bucketful of freshly cooked lobsters” (Mead 281).
b. One startling description of fiddler Ashley MacIsaac begins, “Although wrecking a hotelroom is standard rock-star behavior, it is unusual for the instrument of destruction tobe a bucketful of freshly cooked lobsters” (Guralnick and Wolk 281).