This guide will give examples for Works Cited entries. You will be asked to use this information to create sample Works Cited entries to ensure that you know and use the proper format. After we go through the format, each student will create a practice Works Cited with the five articles that are listed on the following page.

Works Cited lists the sources that you cited in your paper. It appears at the end of your paper. It provides all of the relevant information about the document. How is Works Cited different from Works Consulted?

In order to help you understand the big picture, I have also included a reminder about the role of parenthetical citations in a research paper.

Parenthetical citations appear within your paper. They use parentheses and tell the source where a fact, statistic, or quote was found. Parenthetical citations only include the author name and a page number. If an author is not given, then the title of the article is used.

Template forWorks Cited or Works Consulted Page

Your last name 5
Works Cited
Gelman, David, and Karen Springen. "How Will the Clone Feel?" Newsweek 8 Oct. 1993:
65+. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 16 Oct. 2009. <
Lehrman, Sally. "No More Cloning Around." Scientific American: Aug. 2008: 100. Print.
"Medical Research: Human Embryos Cloned from Skin Cell." Facts on File World News
Digest. N.p.: Facts on File News Services, 31 Jan. 2008. World News
Digest. Web.27 Oct. 2009. <

The Works Cited or Works Consulted page appears at the end of your paper.

The following rules apply to your Works Cited or Works Consulted page:

  • It should be on a separate page from your text.
  • The page should be numbered at the top with your name and the page number of your paper. This can be done by creating a header.
  • The title should be centered, 1” from the top (do not underline, italicize, or bold).
  • All margins should be set to 1".
  • Double-space the entire list.
  • All entries should be listed alphabetically (ignore the words A, An, The).
  • If the entry runs more than one line, indent the subsequent line(s) 1/2".
  • TIP: Use Control+Tab to indent the line desired.

Let’s look at samples from two of our sources. Here is a link to these samples.

– link for Issues and Controversies sample

Issues& Controversies

Article Title.

Issues and Controversies on File (original print source) followed by the date published: page number(s).

  • Use the abbreviation n. pag. if page numbers are not provided.

Issues& Controversies(name of the database).

Web (publication medium).

Date of access.

< URL > as shown in example.

"Capital Punishment."Issues and Controversies. Infobase Learning, 6 Aug. 2014.

Web. 14 Jan. 2015.< >.

***One of the advantages of databases is that they frequently provide a Works Cited entry at the end of the article.

This is a rare case where it is actually acceptable for you to copy and paste information from an article. Once you have copied and pasted the entry into your Works Cited, you will need to make a few changes related to formatting. The way the citation appears in the database probably looks like the sample below. Here are the steps to follow to adjust the formatting for your Works Cited:

Citation Information MLAChicago Manual of Style

“Immigration Policy.”Issues & Controversies.Infobase Learning, 8 Apr. 2013. Web.12 Dec. 2014. <

“Immigration Policy.” Issues & Controversies,April 8, 2013. Accessed December 12, 2014.

  1. Copy and paste the citation. Be sure the circle is filled in that indicates MLA format (NOT Chicago Manual of Style). When you paste the citation, you will have three choices. Use the button in the middle which says “Merge Formatting.”
  1. Make sure the font is Times New Roman 12. If necessary, change the font to Times New Roman 12.

Be sure to double space the Works Cited.

  1. Hanging indent needs to be used. The start of the first line should be flush to the margin. The second, third, and all lines after that need to be indented. To indent, place your cursor in front of the line that you want to indent. Then, hold down the CONTROL (CTRL) button and then hit TAB. This will move only a single line rather than the whole entry.

Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Opposing Viewpoints could have articles from either books, magazines, or newspapers. The example below is for a magazine article. Click on this link to see samples for a book or newspaper.

link for sample for Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Sowell, Thomas, and John J. Dululio, Jr. "The Death Penalty is a Deterrent." Opposing

Viewpoints: The Death Penalty. Ed. Paul A. Winters. San Diego: Greenhaven Press,

1997. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 19 June 2009.

Author, if given.

"Article Title."

Title of publication the article came from.

Editor's name, if given, preceded by Ed then first name and last name.

City of publication:Publisher, year published.

  • Use the abbreviations N.p. (no place of publication, n.p. (no publisher) or n.d. (no date of publication) if information is not provided.

Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context (name of the database).

Web (publication medium).

Date of access.

< URL >.

  • You may choose the document URL (permanent link) shown at the bottom of the article or the abbreviated root URL as shown in the following example. DO NOT COPY the words Document URL.

Steps for you to take:

  1. Copy and Paste the citation and the URL. Then delete the words “Document URL”
  1. You may include the entire URL. The other option that most people use is to simply include the shortcut. For Gale Opposing Viewpoints , you may use the shortcut

<

Simply paste that shortcut directly after the date accessed (which is the final piece of info given in the first part of the entry.)

By the end of class, please submit your sample Works Cited with the five sources you were given. Once you finish, then apply the same principles in creating a Works Cited for your two database articles for your actual essay. (We will go

over the format for a general internet article tomorrow.)

Works Cited

Create a Works Cited page for these 5 articles. Place your name as a header (Smith 4) in the top right corner. List the sources alphabetically. Do NOT skip lines. Do NOT number the sources. Use a hanging indent. Refer to the samples that are given above. For both of these databases, the article citation appears at the bottom of the article.

The first two articles do NOT provide authors. They will be listed alphabetically according to the first word of the title.

From Issues and Controversies:

1. “Police Brutality”

2. “Paying College Athletes”

The next three articles have authors. To find these articles you should copy and paste the exact full title into the search box. NOTE: There are a number of articles that have titles that are close to these titles. Be sure you find these exact articles.

From Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context:

1. “Human Activities Threaten the World's Oceans and Coastal Regions”

2. “Legalized Gambling Benefits Local Economies”

3. “Internet Gambling Should Be Banned to Protect Children”