Citing your sources You will create a list of the resources you used for your research There is a pattern! You are using MLA style, but there are many other styles We will cite a book together, then you will cite one on your own

Example: Works Cited Braswell, Karen. I Have Traveled Through Time. Las Cruces: Harbrow Publications, Print. Wolfe, Emerson. What are you Driving? El Paso: Mills and Luna Association, Print.

Rules to remember Title this page: Works Cited It is centered on your page and you skip two lines and begin your citations The works are in alphabetical order Skip one line between citations First line of each different citation is at the margin, second, third, fourth…lines are indented (reverse indention)

Author’s name: Gibaldi, Joseph. author’s last name, first name.

Two authors List first author, and second author. Webber, Elizabeth, and Mike Feinstilber.

Italicize the title of the book, use capital letters appropriately: MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.

Editions If your book has an edition number: Add information after the title Example: 3 rd ed. 6 th ed. Use Rev. ed. for “Revised edition” Use Abr. ed. for “Abridged edition” Then continue with the city of publication…

City of publication (not state): and Publisher, New York: The Modern Language Association of America,

After listing the publisher, place a comma

Copyright year, check for the most recent year: It looks like 2003 but if you keep looking…

Here a more recent date is on second page

Multiple years listed: go with most recent

Multiple copyright dates: select the most recent

Other things to look at:

Information is listed within first two/three pages

Title and Author are on cover, titles are capitalized, articles and prepositions are not

This book has been published in many cities

Always list first city listed

List up to two authors, more than that refer to the formula

Always cite your sources. Give credit where credit is due.

Check your… paper for the correct punctuation periods in correct places capitalization skip lines between each citation alphabetizing of all citations reverse indention correct style for book, internet and database, they vary

I believe in you, you can cite correctly! You are good looking and smart too! The end!

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6 th ed. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, Print.