• EN100, Text Citation Exercise

Materials: A Pocket Style Manual, or other style guide; laptop or computer

Using A Pocket Style Manualor other style guide for reference, work to rearrange each of the below entries into one, correct, properly formatted Works Cited page. Note that each example is out of order.

  1. Begin my looking at your source material. Decide what type of source it is: book? journal article? magazine?
  2. Find the “Directory of works cited materials” (the source index for each formatting style) in your style guide and go to the page for the specific source you need.
  3. Format each entry into the proper order according to the order as outlined in your style guide.
  4. Once you have each entry properly formatted, find the “Sample list of works cited” page example in your style guide. Using this page as reference, place each entry into a proper Works Cited page, one page for MLA and one page for APA.

Example:

Title: Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination

Place of Publication: Boulder

Year: 2006

Author: Neal Gabler

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday

MLA Style (Single author):

Gabler, Neal. Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination. Knopf Doubleday, 2006.

APA Style(Single author):

Gabler, N. (2006). Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination. Boulder: Knopf Doubleday.

  1. Title: A Pocket Style Manual

Place of Publication: Boston, MA

First Author: Diana Hacker

Year of publication: 2015

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin’s

Second Author: Nancy Sommers

  1. Page: 110

Title of Article: How Safe is Your Nail Salon?

Month: August

Author: Matlin Jessica

Title of Magazine: Cosmopolitan

Year: 2015

  1. Article Title: Cyberbullying: Causes, Effects, and Remedies

Issue: 5

First Author: Diane Hoff

Pages: 652-665

Date: 2009

Volume: 47

Journal Title: Journal of Educational Administration

Second Author: Sidney Mitchell

  1. First Editor: Jack Zipes

Place of Publication: New York, NY

Third Editor: Lynne Vallone

Author of Selection: Charles Perrault

Year: 2005

Second Editor: Lissa Paul

Page: 343

Title of Selection: Little Red Riding Hood

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company

Title: The Norton Anthology of Children’s Literature

  1. Author: David Kanigan

Title of Blog Post: Monday Morning Wake-UpCall

Dates Posted: December 26, 2016

Title of Blog: Live & Learn

Publisher/Sponsor: Wordpress

URL/Retrieved:

  1. Author: Sara Boboltz

Title of Web site: The Huffington Post

Article Published: June 25, 2014

Title of Short Work: These Quotes From Students Nail Everything That’s Wrong With School Dress Codes

URL/Retrieved: