Works

Cited / Bibliography Page

At the end of every research paper you MUST have a works cited or bibliography page. A
works cited page lists all of the works you referred to in your paper. This is dierent than
a bibliography which lists all of the sources you used in your research. Your works cited/
bibliography page should be the nal page of your research paper.
* Remember to provide the full bibliographic informa6on for each source you have used!*

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Sample List:

Works Cited
Ali, Agha Shahid. Call Me Ishamel Tonight: A Book of Ghazals. New York: Norton,
2003.
Barea, Arturo. Lorca: The Poet and His People. Trans. Ilsa Barea. New York:
Harcourt, Brace, & Company, 1949.
Blackwell, Frieda H. DeconstrucLng NarraLve: Lorcas Romancero Gitano and
the Romance sonmbulo. CAUCE 26 (2003): 31-46.
Celik, Ipek Azime. AlternaLve History, Expanding IdenLty: Myths Reconsidered
in Mahmoud Darwishs Poetry. Mahmoud Darwish: Exiles Poet: CriPcal
Essays. Ed. Hala Khamis Nassar and Najat Rahman. Northampton:
Interlink, 2008.

Text Based Sources

The following secPon lists the MLA citaPon format for text-based sources.
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Basic Entry for a Book
Last name, First name. Title of Book. City of PublicaLon: Publisher, Year of PublicaLon.
For example:
Bringhurst, Robert. The Tree of Meaning: Language, Mind, and Ecology. Berkeley:
Counterpoint, 2008.
Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin, 1987.
Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. Denver: MacMurray, 1999.

Books with Two Authors

Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston:
Allyn, 2000.

Books with Three or More Authors

Wysocki, Anne Frances, et al. WriPng New Media: Theory and ApplicaPons for
Expanding the Teaching of ComposiPon. Logan: Utah State UP, 2004.
Wysocki, Anne Frances, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Cynthia L. Selfe, and Georey Sirc.
WriPng New Media: Theory and ApplicaPons for Expanding the Teaching of
ComposiPon. Logan: Utah State UP, 2004.

Translated Books
Foucault, Michel. Madness and CivilizaPon: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason.
Trans. Richard Howard. New York: Vintage-Random House, 1988.

An EdiEon of a Book
Crowley, Sharon, and Debra Hawhee. Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. 3rd
ed. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2004.

Books by an OrganizaEon or Company

American Allergy AssociaLon. Allergies in Children. New York: Random, 1998.
Two or More Books by the Same Author:
(Make sure to list the books alphabeEcally by Etle, not including arLcles like the or
and.)
Palmer, William J. Dickens and New Historicism. New York: St. MarLn's, 1997. Print.
---. The Films of the EighPes: A Social History. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1993.
Print.

Works in an Anthology (essays, arEcles, poems, short stories)

Last name, First name. "Title of Essay." Title of CollecPon. Ed. Editor's Name(s). City of
PublicaLon: Publisher, Year. Page range of entry.

Examples
Swanson, Gunnar. "Graphic Design EducaLon as a Liberal Art: Design and Knowledge in
the University and The 'Real World.'" The EducaPon of a Graphic Designer. Ed.
Steven Heller. New York: Allworth Press, 1998. 13-24.
Burns, Robert. "Red, Red Rose." 100 Best-Loved Poems. Ed. Philip Smith. New York:
Dover, 1995. 26.
Kincaid, Jamaica. "Girl." The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories. Ed.
Tobias Wol. New York: Vintage, 1994. 306-07.

Online Sources
The following secPon lists the MLA citaPon format for online-based sources.
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An EnEre Website
Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). Name of Site. Name of insLtuLon/
organizaLon aliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource
creaLon. Medium of publicaLon. Date of access.
Examples
The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The WriLng Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U,
2008. Web. 23 Apr. 2008.
Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and CriPcal Theory. Purdue U, 28 Nov. 2003. Web. 10
May 2006.

A Page on a Website
Author. "Title of Page." Name of Site. InsLtuLon/organizaLon aliated with the site,
date of resource creaLon. Medium of publicaLon. Date of access.
Example
(Author, if they are listed.) "How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow.com. eHow, n.d. Web.
24 Feb. 2009.

An ArEcle in an Online Magazine/Newspaper

Bernstein, Mark. "10 Tips on WriLng the Living Web." A List Apart: For People Who
Make Websites. A List Apart Mag., 16 Aug. 2002. Web. 4 May 2009.

ArEcle from an Online Journal Database (like JSTOR)

Authors Name. Title of ArLcle. Name of Journal Date it was published: Page range.
Name of Online Database. Web. Date accessed.
Examples:
Junge, Wolfgang, and Nathan Nelson. Nature's Rotary Electromotors. Science 29 Apr.
2005: 642-44. Science Online. Web. 5 Mar. 2009.
Langhamer, Claire. Love and Courtship in Mid-TwenLeth-Century England. Historical
Journal 50.1 (2007): 173-96. ProQuest. Web. 27 May 2009.

Other Kinds of Sources

The following secPon lists the MLA citaPon format for other types of sources.
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ArEcles in Magazines
Author(s). "Title of ArLcle." Title of Periodical Day Month Year: pages.
Poniewozik, James. "TV Makes a Too-Close Call." Time 20 Nov. 2000: 70-71.

ArEcles in Newspapers
Brubaker, Bill. "New Health Center Targets County's Uninsured PaLents." Washington
Post 24 May 2007: LZ01.
Krugman, Andrew. "Fear of EaLng." New York Times 21 May 2007 late ed.: A1.

Personal Interview
This is when you interview someone else. So for example, I interviewed my mom. I will
write in my Works Cited:
Milligan, Elizabeth. Personal Interview. 11 February 2012.

Published Interviews
List the interview by the name of the person being interviewed:
Gaitskill, Mary. Interview with Charles Bock. Mississippi Review 27.3 (1999): 129-50.
Amis, Kingsley. Mimic and Moralist. Interviews with Britains Angry Young Men. By
Dale Salwak. San Bernardino: Borgo, 1984.

Visual Art (painEngs, photos, sculpture, etc.)

If you saw it in real life:
Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles IV. 1800. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
If you saw it in a book:
Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles IV. 1800. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Gardener's
Art Through the Ages. 10th ed. By Richard G. Tansey and Fred S. Kleiner. Fort
Worth: Harcourt Brace. 939.
Movies
Films mean movies you saw in a theater:
The Usual Suspects. Dir. Bryan Singer. Perf. Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz
Palminteri, Stephen Baldwin, and Benecio del Toro. Polygram, 1995. Film.

For movies you see on DVD, say so:

Ed Wood. Dir. Tim Burton. Perf. Johnny Depp, MarLn Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker,
Patricia Arqueoe. Touchstone, 1994. DVD.

Radio or Television Program

"The Blessing Way." The X-Files. Fox. WXIA, Atlanta. 19 Jul. 1998. Television.