1. Works Cited How Do I Get Started? Mr. Slaby’s Class 12/5/02

2. What is a Works Cited page? List of all sources you used to write your paper. Alphabetical by author’s last name. Last page of your paper. Protects writer from accusations of plagiarism. Helps researchers who want to know where to find more info on the subject.

3. The book you will use in college.

4. Helpful Hints

5. Works Cited Title: centered, top of new page No quotes, underlining, etc.

6. First line of citation at margin, Indent next lines 5 spaces Called a “hanging indent” Example: Kitchen, Chris. Eric Lyndros. New York: Chelsea House, 1989.

7. Double space all references. ______________ ______________Single Space _______________ Double Space ______________

8. Capitals Do capitalize: each word in a title of an article, book, etc. Don’t capitalize: short prepositions, for, about, of, to, or conjunctions, and, but, yet articles, a, an, the unless it is the first word.

9. Author’s Names Invert (last name, first name) Work with more than one author: Invert only first author’s name put a comma after it, add other author’s names Eisenberg, Michael B., and Robert E. Berkowitz

10. Correct punctuation & spacing

11. Underline or Italicize: Book Titles Magazines Periodicals Journals Newspapers Films The Hummingbird House Newsweek Psychology Today Library Journal Washington Post Gone with the Wind

12. Quotations around... Article Titles Short Stories Book chapters Poems Songs Plays “Taming Saddam” “Gift of the Magi” “Why are the Olympics so Popular?” “Casey at the Bat” “Star Spangled Banner” “Samantha Fair”

13. Works Cited Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5 th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1999. Kunka, Jennifer. “Using MLA Format.” OWL Online Writing Lab. Dec. 2000. Purdue University. 3 Dec. 2002. <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/ print/research/r_mla.html>