MLA Works Cited Page Exercise 1

MLA Works Cited Page

A Works Cited page is MLA's version of a bibliography. The page is double spaced with entries listed in alphabetical order by the author's last name. If the source does not have an author, then the title is used. If an entry is long enough to require more than one line of text, the subsequent lines are indented a half inch. Entries include three basic elements: author, title, publication information. Book, magazine and journal titles are placed in italics. Article titles are placed in quotation marks.

Basic Types of Print Sources

Sample Book Entry:

Thoreau, Henry, David.  Walden.  Boston:  Penguin Classics, 1954.  Print.

The author is Henry David Thoreau. The book is Walden. It was published in Boston by Penguin Classics in 1954.

Sample Magazine Entry: 

Catchem, Robert.  “The Power of Forgiveness.” Time 23 July 1999:  36.  Print.

The author is Robert Catchem. He wrote the article, "The Power of Forgiveness." It was published in Time magazine on July 23, 1999. It was printed on page 36. The article title comes first because Robert Catchem only wrote that article. He is not responsible for the whole magazine. We include the page numbers because Catchem's work is only found on that page. We don't include page numbers with books because as in the example above, Thoreau wrote the whole work.

Sample Journal Entry:

Zimmer, Norman. “The Shoelace Motif in Finno-Latvian Sonnet Sequences.” PMLA

43.2 (1999):  202-295.  Print.

Norman Zimmer is the author. He wrote the article, "The Shoelace Motif in Finno-Latvian Sonnet Sequences." It was published in PMLA. In order to differentiate magazine and journal entries, we only use the full date with magazines. Whereas with journals, we use the volume (43) and issue (2) numbers with the year in parentheses (1999). Once again, we use the page numbers because Zimmer only wrote the article that appears on those pages. 

Sample Newspaper Entry:

Brubaker, Bill. "New Health Center Targets County's Uninsured Patients." Washington Post 24 May 2007: LZ01.

Print.

Sample Pamphlet Entry:

Women's Health: Problems of the Digestive System. Washington: American College of Obstetricians and

Gynecologists, 2006. Print.

 This is how it would look on a properly formatted Works Cited page.

Works Cited

Brubaker, Bill. "New Health Center Targets County's Uninsured Patients." Washington Post 24 May 2007: LZ01.

Print.

Catchem, Robert.  “The Power of Forgiveness.” Time 23 July 1999:  36.  Print.

Thoreau, Henry, David.  Walden.  Boston:  Penguin Classics, 1954.  Print.

Women's Health: Problems of the Digestive System. Washington: American College of Obstetricians and

Gynecologists, 2006. Print.

Zimmer, Norman. “The Shoelace Motif in Finno-Latvian Sonnet Sequences.” PMLA 43 (1999):  202-295.  Print.

Creating an MLA-formatted Works Cited page

• Create a Works Cited page from the list of sources below.  
• Be sure and put them in alphabetical order.
• Type this in a Word document.
• Click the "Submit" button and follow the directions for submitting your work.

MLA Exercise for Print Sources – Formatting Print Sources for a Works Cited page

Directions:
• Create a Works Cited page from the list of print sources below;
• Be sure and put them in alphabetical order;
• Remember:
  • Alphabetize entries;
  • Double space;
  • When an entry in longer than one line, be sure to indent subsequent lines of text;
  • No numbers nor bullets.

1. The book The Loch Ness Monster: The Evidence was written by Stewart Campbell and published in 1997 by Prometheus Books in Edinburgh, Scotland.
2. On page B9 of its April 16, 2013 issue, the New York Daily News published “Bigfoot Bounty: Olympia Beer Offers OneMillion Dollar Reward to Capture Sasquatch” David Knowles was the author. 
3. On Oct. 11, 2012, pages 14-17, BBC Magazine published “The Murky Alure of the Loch Ness Monster” Chloe Hadjimatheou and Vanessa Barford were the authors.
4. You are interested in Japanese monsters and found an article by D. P. Martinez,  “Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai.” It was published in the 2012 edition of The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. You found the article in volume 14, issue 1 on pages 30 through 51.
5. You're a fan of Bigfoot on Television, and you and your friends are headed to Washington to track him down. You found the perfect pamphlet to guide your journeys, The Sasquatch Field Guide. This guide was published in Aracata, CA by Paradise Bay Publications in 2013 and is written by Dr. Jeff Meldrum.
6. You look at one more source that deals with Sasquatch and American culture: "The Discovery of Sasquatch: Reconciling Culture, History and Science in the Discovery Process." Henry H. Bauer from Virginia Tech is the author. It was published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration in the summer of 2013. You found it in volume 27, issue 2, pages 329-333.
7. Finally, to put you in the mood for monster hunting, you decided to read J. R. R. Tolkiens' The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again. Your edition was published in 1997 by Ballantine Books in New York.

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