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MLA Works Cited Format

Important notes regarding the construction of a list of sources:

¨The primary purpose of a works cited is to list the works sited used in writing your paper. The secondary purpose of the works cited is to assist the reader in finding your sources.

¨Works consulted is used when the title in a list is not confined to works cited.

¨The works cited should document sources including statistics, original quotes, original ideas, theories, and any uncommon knowledge that are cited in your paper.

¨The works cited is single-spaced with one blank space between entries.

¨The first line of each entry is flush left and all subsequent lines are indented five spaces.

¨The works cited is arranged in alphabetical order by author’s last name or first important word in the title.

¨Page numbers are listed in works cited entries only when the item is part of a whole work.

¨When italics are not available, underline.

For additional information, see the MLA Handbook at the library desk.

Here is a sample:

Works Cited

Asha, Herbert B. “Presidential Elections.” The Academic American. CD-ROM, Grolier, Incorporated, Danbury, CT, c1991.

Bruckman, Amy. “Approaches to Managing Deviant Behavior in Virtual Communities.”

pub/asb/papers/deviance-chi-94<ftp:// ftp.media.mit.edu>

(4 December 1994).

“Cleveland.” Encyclopedia Britannica Online.

<http://www.eb.com:180/bol/topic?eu=24745&sctn=1&pm=1>

(18 December 2000).

“Dean Koontz.” Contemporary Authors. Online. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998.

Available: <http://www.galenet.com/servlat/LRC/hits?NA=koontz.>

(31 March 1998)

Dictionary of Literary Biography. Online. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998.

<http://galenet.gale.com/m/mcp/db/dbl.>

(31 March 1998).

Duncan, Mark. “Wintery Weather.” Accunet Photo Archive. 18 February 2000.

Associated Press (18 December 2000). http://accuweather.ap.org>

Eder, Richard. “Those Nights on the Harlem Rooftops.” Los Angeles Times Book

Review, April 19, 1992, pp. 3, 5 Contemporary Literary Criticism Select. Online.

Detroit: Gale Research, 1998. Available:

<http://www.galenet.com/servlet/LRC/hits?NA=morrison&=CLC046DOC0873.>

(31 March 1998).

Franke, Norman. <frankel@11n1.gov> “SoundApp 2.0.2.”

(29 April 1996). Personal e-mail. (3 May 1996).

Frick, Robert. “Investing in Medical Miracles.” Kiplinger’s Personal Finance

Feb. 1999: 80-87. SIRS Researcher. SIRS Knowledge Source. St. Petersburg

Community College Library, St. Petersburg, FL.

(10 February 2000).

Garraty, John A. and Coles, Robert. The Columbia History of the World.

New York: Harper & Row, 1972.

Hartman, Brian. “Lamm to Seek Reform Party Nomination.” Now Politics 9 July, 1999

Online.Available <http://www.politicsnow.com/news/July96/09/pn07091amm/

index.html>

(9 July 1996).

McDonald, Forrest. “Washington, George”;

American National Biography Online. Oxford University Press.

<http://www.anb.org/articles/02/02-00332.html>; Access Date: Mon ,

Dec 18 08:43:16 Eastern Standard Time 2000.

Muller, John. American Indian Pictographs. New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1980.

Schaefer, Bradley E. “Meteors That Changed the World.” Sky and Telescope.

v.96 n6 Dec. 1998: 8pp. Bell & Howell Information and Learning-Proquest Direct.

(29 October 1998).

Quindlen, Anna, New York , letter to Diane Novish, Cleveland, 19 September 1993.

Quindlen, Anna, journalist. Interview by author, Cleveland, 24 November 1993.

Tobias, Sheila. “Math Anxiety and Physics: Some Thoughts on Learning Difficult

Subjects.” Physics Today, June 1985: 60-61.

U.S. Department of Energy. Shipments of Nuclear Fuel and Waste: Are They Really

Safe? Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988.