1. Bibliographies and Works Cited Lists

2. What’s the Difference?
A Bibliography lists all the sources consulted in research for a specific essay.
A Preliminary Bibliography or Working Bibliography lists all the sources the writer thinks s/he will be using in the essay
A Works Cited lists all the works actually cited in the text of the essay.
Both a Bibliography and Works Cited list are formatted in the same way.

3. Overall Format
The title -- Bibliography or Works Cited -- is centered at the top of the page. It is not underlined, italicized or quoted. It should be the same font size as the rest of the citations.
The citation list is double-spaced throughout.
The citation list is alphabetized.
If there is no author, the citation begins with the title of the work – quoted if an article or poem, underlined or italicized if a book.
The first line of each citation is at the margin; subsequent lines should be indented about ten spaces.

4. Sample Citations: MLA FORMAT

5. A Book
author title of book
Bragg, Rick. Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2000.
subtitle of book city of publication
publisher year of publication

6. Chapter in a Book Bragg, Rick. “Country Club Meets the Enemy:
author title of chapter
Bragg, Rick. “Country Club Meets the Enemy:
Country Music and Pigs.” Rpt. Somebody
Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg.
Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P,
original publication date reprint
title of book subtitle of book
city publisher year of publication
inclusive chapter pages

7. Article in a Multi-Volume Reference Work
author title of work
Larkin, Joan. "Frontiers of Language: Three Poets."
1974. Exc. in "Audre Lord.” Contemporary
Literary Criticism. Vol. 18. Ed. Sharon R.
Gunton. Detroit: Gale Research,
excerpted title of article title of reference work
original date volume editor
city publisher year of publication
inclusive pages of work

8. Article in a Journal Maxwell, Bill. “Angry Young Man.” Forum:
author title of article name of journal
Maxwell, Bill. “Angry Young Man.” Forum:
The Magazine of the Florida Humanities Council.
XXII.2 (Summer 1999): 8-17.
volume number date inclusive pages of article

9. Article in a Journal found in an Online Database
author title of article
Eder, Richard, "The Greatest Woman Poet Since
Sappho." Los Angeles Times Book Review
18 Mar Galenet: Literature
Resource Center. LINCC. 10 Jan
name of journal
date pages publisher database
provider date accessed

10. Article found on an Internet Site
author title of webpage date posted
Lu Yanguang. "Madame Li." 1997. 
Asia Pac: 100 Celebrated Chinese Women.
Trans. Kate Foster. 10 Feb. 2000
< > .
name of website
translator date accessed
URL: web address

11. Work in an Anthology
original publication date
author title of work title of book
Whitman, Walt. “Osceola.” Florida in Poetry:.
A History of the Imagination. Eds. Jane Anderson
subtitle of book editors
city
Jones and Maurice O’Sullivan. Sarasota:
Pineapple Press,
publisher year of publication
inclusive pages of work

12. Poems from Online Sources
McKay, Claude. “Spring in New Hampshire.”
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online.
2008. Columbia University Press. 22 May
2008. <
Rich, Adrienne. “Diving Into the Wreck.”
Poet’s.Org American Academy of Poets.
22 May < viewmedia.php/prmMID/15228 >.

13. Bios from Online Sources
“Adrienne Rich.” Poet’s Org
Academy of American Poets. 22 May <
“Claude McKay (1889–1948)”. Columbia Granger's World
of Poetry Online Columbia University Press.
22 May <

14. Bibliography
Bragg, Rick. “Country Club Meets the Enemy: Country Music and
Pigs.” Rpt. Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories
of Rick Bragg. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P,
______. Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg.
Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2000.
Eder, Richard, "The Greatest Woman Poet Since Sappho." Los Angeles
Times Book Review 18 Mar Galenet: Literature
Resource Center. LINCC. 10 Jan

15. Larkin, Joan. "Frontiers of Language: Three Poets." 1974. Exc. in
"Audre Lord.” Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 18.
Ed. Sharon R. Gunton. Detroit: Gale Research,
Lu Yanguang. "Madame Li." 1997.  Asia Pac: 100 Celebrated
Chinese Women. Trans. Kate Foster. 10 Feb. 2000
< > .
Maxwell, Bill. “Angry Young Man.” Forum: The Magazine of the
Florida Humanities Council. XXII.2 (Summer 1999): 8-17.

16. Whitman, Walt. “Osceola.” 1892. Florida in Poetry: A History of the
Imagination. Eds. Jane Anderson Jones and Maurice O’Sullivan.
Sarasota: Pineapple Press,

17. REMEMBER…
The title -- Bibliography or Works Cited -- is centered at the top of the page. It is not underlined, italicized or quoted. It should be the same font size as the rest of the citations.
The citation list is double-spaced throughout.
The citation list is alphabetized.
If there is no author, the citation begins with the title of the work – quoted if an article or poem, underlined or italicized if a book.
The first line of each citation is at the margin; subsequent lines should be indented about ten spaces.

18. For Further Information
Jane Jones’ Tools for Writing and Research:
Manatee Community College's Writing and Citing Help:
MLA Online:
Using MLA Style from the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL):
Color-coded MLA Citations from Long Island University:
Slate Citation Machine will help format sources automatically: