MLA – WORKS CITED
Basic Rules Separate page Double space Indenting Page numbers Medium of publication To URL or not to URL???
Basic Rules (cont) Capitalization and punctuation Italics and quotation marks Listing author names More than one work by an author Uh oh…no known author!
Basic Format Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.
Examples Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin, Print. Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. Denver: MacMurray, Print.
Books with More Than One Author Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn, Print.
Electronic Sources Author and/or editor Article name in quotation marks Title of website Any version numbers Publisher info Page numbers? Medium of publication Date you accessed the material URL
Citing an Entire Website Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). Name of Site. Version number. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation (if available). Medium of publication. Date of access. The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, Web. 23 Apr
Page on a Website "How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow. Demand Media, n.d. Web. 24 Feb
An Image Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles IV Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Museo National del Prado. Web. 22 May Klee, Paul. Twittering Machine Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Artchive. Web. 22 May brandychloe. "Great Horned Owl Family." Photograph. Webshots. American Greetings, 22 May Web. 5 Nov
My Pet Peeves Non-alphabetical order Bullets Indentation Obviously messed up citations Citing Google or any other search engine
More info??? The Purdue OWL. Purdue U Writing Lab, Web. 23 Sep rce/747/01/
Annotating Your Bibliography Title Subheadings Annotations Example