Appendix C

Sample Works Cited Page

 

Works Cited

 

 

Barker, Karen  Women of Steel.  New York:  Knopf, 1991.

 

Brown, Charlie.  “My Life in Cartoons.”  Cartoon Week 21 Nov. 1999:7-12.  InfoTrac:

            General Reference Center Gold.  Gale Group.  15 Dec. 1999.

            <http://galenet.gale.com>

 

Evans, Harold.  “Coping With Unruly Children.”  Time 15 Feb. 1994:  25-29.

 

---.  “Bringing Up Billy.”  Newsweek 17 June 2000:  31-33.

 

Goldsmith, Elizabeth.  “The Future is Dim.”  Fresno Bee 5 July 1996:  3A

 

Janke, Jim.  “The American Civil War.”  Updated 5 May 2002.  University of South

            Dakota.  24 June 2002.  <www.usa.coldwar.server.gov/index/coldwar.html>

 

Moyers, Bill, dir.  Maya Angelou.  PBS Home Video, New York, 1991.

 

Pasquier, Roger F.  “Owl.”  Encyclopedia Americana Online.  Grolier, Inc., 2002.

           29 Feb. 2002.  <http://ea.grolier.com>

 

 


Works Cited List Format

  • Begin your works cited list on a separate page from the text of the essay under the label Works Cited (with no quotation marks, underlining, etc.), which should be centered at the top of the page.
  • Make the first line of each entry in your list flush left with the margin. Subsequent lines in each entry should be indented one-half inch. This is known as a hanging indent.
  • Single space between lines of an entry.  Double space between one entry and another.
  • Keep in mind that underlining and italics are equivalent; you should select one or the other to use throughout your essay.
  • Alphabetize the list of works cited by the first word in each entry (usually the author's last name),

Basic Rules for Citations

  • Authors' names are inverted (last name first); if a work has more than one author, invert only the first author's name, follow it with a comma, then continue listing the rest of the authors.
  • If you have cited more than one work by a particular author, order them alphabetically by title, and use three hyphens in place of the author's name for every entry after the first.
  • When an author appears both as the sole author of a text and as the first author of a group, list solo-author entries first.
  • If no author is given for a particular work, alphabetize by the title of the piece and use a shortened version of the title for parenthetical citations.
  • Capitalize each word in the titles of articles, books, etc. This rule does not apply to articles, short prepositions, or conjunctions unless one is the first word of the title or subtitle.
  • Underline or italicize titles of books, journals, magazines, newspapers, and films.
  • Use quotation marks around the titles of articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers. Also use quotation marks for the titles of short stories, book chapters, poems, and songs.
  • List page numbers efficiently, when needed. If you refer to a journal article that appeared on pages 225 through 250, list the page numbers on your Works Cited page as 225-50.
  • If you're citing an article or a publication that was originally issued in print form but that you retrieved from an online database, you should provide enough information so that the reader can locate the article either in its original print form or retrieve it from the online database (if they have access).

 

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