Works Cited Page Always follow the guidelines for a Works Cited page. This is the most important page in a research paper.

Sources for material in this presentation: Ackley, Katherine Anne. Ed Sources for material in this presentation: Ackley, Katherine Anne. Ed. Perspectives on Contemporary Issues: Readings Across the Disciplines. 5th ed. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage 2009. Print. Hacker, Diana, and Nancy Sommers. A Pocket Style Manual. 6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s 2012. Print.

General Guidelines for Creating a List of Works Cited Begin on a new page after the conclusion. Center the title “Works Cited.” Alphabetize the list. Begin the first line of each entry in the left margin and indent the subsequent lines. Double-space within and between all entries.

Guidelines continued Begin with the author’s LAST name, followed by a comma and then the first name. A period follows the full name/names. Italicize the titles of books, journals, magazines, newspapers and websites. End each entry with a period. Start with the name of the article if there is no author.

Examples of books: Cummings, Clair Hope. Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds. Boston: Beacon, 2008. Print. Leitch, Vincent B., et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 2010. Print.

Example of book, two authors: Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale UP, 1979. Print.

Examples of articles: Allen, Paul. “Dickens in Composition Classrooms.” College English 92.4 (Mar. 2011): 325-33. Print. Tannen, Deborah. “We Need a Higher Quality Outrage.” Perspectives on Contemporary Issues: Readings Across the Disciplines. 5th ed. Ed. Katherine Anne Ackley. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage. 2009. 54-57. Print.

Example without an author: “44 Ways to Kick-Start Your New Year.” success.com. Success Media, 30 Nov. 2009. Web. 12 October 2010.