1. MLA Citations and Creating Your Works Cited Page

2. Purpose of Citations and the Works Cited Page
Give credit to the sources from which you found your information
Avoid plagiarism
Any plagiarism = 0 = failing 4th quarter
Help your reader locate information about your topic

3. Creating MLA Citations
There are certain pieces of information that are required in order to properly cite a source
These usually include information about the author, title, publisher, dates, etc.
There are several websites that will create citations for you
Easybib.com
Citationmachine.net

4. Steps to Writing Your Works Cited Page
Create your citations using a citation creator
Begin your Works Cited page on a separate page at the end of your research paper. It should have the same one-inch margins and last name, page number header as the rest of your paper.
Put your sources in alphabetical order by the author’s LAST name, OR the first unique word in the title of the article or website
Words like the, and, a, an, etc. don’t count as “unique words”

5. Works Cited
Start your Works Cited Page by typing “Works Cited” at the top of the page, centered (just like above)
Do NOT use a large size font or a fancy font
Make sure you spell it correctly!

7. Double Spacing The Works Cited Page should be double spaced throughout
Start each new entry at the left margin
The reader knows when you have a new entry because it will start at the left margin

8. Hanging Indents
If your works cited entry is too long for one line, then you use a “hanging indent” format for the second line.
Looks like this:
Author’s last name, first name. Title of Book. Publishing City: Publishing Company, Year.
This is the hanging indent; first line is at the left margin and the second and third lines are indented 5 spaces.

10. Keep Going!
Continue adding sources to your Works Cited page IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
Your goal was to have 5 or more sources listed
Only list the sources from which you plan to take notes and use for your paper