Transcript MLA Works Cited Formatting

MLA Works Cited Formatting
Go to the OWL at Purdue
• https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resourc
e/747/06/
• This link is also posted on my webpage.
Why do we have to do this?
• Including references to reliable resources makes
you look good! The reader can trust what you
have to say because you have referenced the
experts.
• If you don’t include in-text citation and/or a works
cited page, your work is considered plagiarized.
Not only can plagiarism get you in trouble in the
real world, but it will earn you a ZERO on your
assignment. In college, you could even be
kicked out of the class, department, or school. In
your job, you could be fired or lose credibility.
Electronic Resources
• Mainly, you will be citing pages on a website, but
sometimes you’ll cite the entire website if your
information comes from multiple pages of one
website.
• Your works cited page source should look like
this (but double-spaced, Times New Roman):
Author Last Name, First Name. “Article Title: Subtitle if Needed.” Website
Title. Organization or Sponsor, Day# Mon. Year last updated.
Web. Day# Mon. Year accessed by you. <URL>.
Example:
"How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow. Demand Media, n.d. Web. 24
Feb. 2009. <www.how-to-make-vegetarian-chile.ehow.com>.
Electronic Resources
A Closer Look…
Every period, comma, quotation mark, etc. is intentional. Use the OWL at Purdue
guide to make sure you put each part in its proper place.
Author Last Name, First Name. “Article Title: Subtitle if Needed.” Website
Title. Organization or Sponsor, Day# Mon. Year last updated. Use the
European style
Web. Day# Mon. Year accessed by you. <URL>.
Example:
"How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow. Demand Media, n.d. Web. 24
Feb. 2009. <www.how-to-make-vegetarian-chile.ehow.com>.
This example starts with
the article title because
no author was listed on
the website.
MLA guidelines do
not require the URL,
but leave it up to the
teacher’s discretion.
I would like you to
include it!
of dating. #
Month
(abbreviated)
Year
The “n.d.” here indicates
“no date,” meaning that
no date was given for
the last time the site was
updated.
Books
• Your Works Cited entry should look like
this (but double-spaced, Times New
Roman):
Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of
Publication. Medium of Publication.
Example:
Wiesel, Elie. Night. Upper Saddle River: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2000. Print.
Books
A Closer Look…
Author Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher,
Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.
Example:
Wiesel, Elie. Night. Upper Saddle River: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2000. Print.
When I looked on the title
page of the book, several
cities were listed, so I
turned to the copyright
page. The city listed with
the copyright is the one to
use.
The publisher’s
name has a comma
in it. You still need to
include a comma
after it to separate
the name from the
year of publication.
The copyright
date can be used
as the year of
publication. If
there are multiple
listed, pick the
most recent.
Anything
physically
printed,
on paper,
will be
considere
d a “print”
medium.
In-Text Citations:
General Guidelines
• Use the first word of the works cited entry
and keep any formatting.
• Include page numbers for books.
• Put this information in parenthesis.
• Put the period outside the parenthesis.
• See the OWL at Purdue for irregular
documentation (multiple authors, a work
within another work, etc.)
In-Text Citation: Books
If this is your works cited
entry…
Wiesel, Elie. Night.
Upper Saddle
River: PrenticeHall, Inc., 2000.
Print.)
Your in-text citation
should look like this…
Encyclopedia of Indiana.
New York:
Somerset, 1993.
Print.
(Encyclopedia
783).
(Weisel 32).
These numbers represent the
page numbers where the
information was found. Notice
that there is just a space and
no comma or “pg.” before the
number. Just list the number.)
In-Text Citation: Website
If this is your works cited entry…
Your in-text citation should look like
this…
"How to Make Vegetarian
Chili." eHow. Demand
Media, n.d. Web. 24
Feb. 2009.
<www.how-to-makevegetarianchile.ehow.com>.
(“How”).
Purdue OWL Family of Sites,
The. The Writing Lab
and OWL at Purdue
and Purdue U, 2008.
Web. 23 Apr. 2008.
(Purdue)
Note that there are no page or
paragraph numbers. Since this is
a website, you do not need to list
them.