MLA Formatting Works Cited and Annotated Bibliography

General Rules 12 point font Times New Roman Double Space Italicize Book Titles, Movies, Plays, any large work Put quotes around “Short Stories,” “Poems,” “Songs,” other short pieces

Essay First Page Header: Right justified last name and page number Body of your paper: Your Name Teacher’s name Class and period Date (1 Jan 2999) ONLY PUT YOUR LAST NAME AND PAGE NUMBER IN THE HEADER!!! Original Title- Center justified Indent the first line of each paragraph ½”

Works Cited Hanging Margin- Instead of the usual paragraph indent, the indents are reversed. The first line of each entry is aligned to the left, while the rest of the lines are indented ½” Periods- separate each individual aspect: author, title, publication, etc. Be careful! Some aspects, like publication information, will also use commas and/or colons. More on that later

Common Examples Full Book Citation Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date. Article in a Newspaper or Scholarly Journal (mag) Last Name, First Name. “Title of Article.” Title of Periodical, Day Month Year, pages. Films/Movies Title. Directed by First Name Last Name, performances by First name Last Name, FL, and FL. Distributor or Film Studio, Year. Note: ALL of these are technically accessible through websites, which would be a container within a container (More on that later)

Which resource is Which? Identify the following as a book citation, a periodical, or a film. The Usual Suspects. Directed by Bryan Singer, performances by Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Stephen Baldwin, and Benecio del Toro, Polygram, 1995. Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. MacMurray, 1999. Krugman, Andrew. "Fear of Eating." New York Times, 21 May 2007, late ed., p. A1. nytimes.com/fear-eating.

Works Cited The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, 2008, owl.english.purdue.edu/owl. 23 Apr, 2008.