Chugiak High School General MLA Documentation Style

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GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

 

  1. Document—one inch margins all sides
  2. Center the words Works Cited at the top of the citation page.  (See last page as sample.)
  3. Double space everything.
  4. Use 12-point type, Times New Roman, for all including titles. 
  5. Alphabetize all Works Cited entries by first word. 
  6. Do not use the underlined headings used on this sample sheet (such as Book Generic or CD-Rom); these headings are provided to help you find the appropriate form. 
  7. The second line of each entry in the works cited list must be indented one-half inch—hanging indent.
  8. Pay attention to punctuation, spacing, underlining, and italics in the Works Cited list.  If you do not have access to italic type, you must underline the parts of the citation that would otherwise be in italics.  Also, if it is underlined in the citation, you may replace the underlining with italics. 
  9. Cross-reference all information cited from the Internet with at one print source or two non-linked Internet sources because inaccurate information is prevalent on the internet and that information can be changed easily. (Wikipedia is NOT a reliable source.)
  10. If any information is unavailable (such as author name) begin with the next requirement.  When there is an author in any citation, be sure to include the name (in proper form) as the first part of the citation.

 

GENERAL FORMS FOR WORKS CITED LIST

 

Book Generic

Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.

Book (one author)

Freedman, Richard R. What Do Unions Do? New York: Basic Publishing Co., 1984.

Book (Editor)

Weisser, Susan Ostrov, ed. Women and Romance: A Reader. New York: New York United Press, 2001.

Book (Two or more authors)

Eggins, Suzanne, and Diana Slade. Analyzing Casual Conversation. London: Cassel Publishing, 1997.

CD-Rom

Braunmuller, A. R., ed. Macbeth. By William Shakespeare. CD-ROM. New York: Voyager, 1994.

Encyclopedia (Online Version)

“Fresco Painting.” Encyclopedia Britannica Online. 2002. Encyclopedia Britannica. 8 May 2002. <http://search.eb.com/>.

Encyclopedia (Software, CD or disk)

Encyclopedia of Islam. CD-ROM. Leiden: Brill, 1999.

Newspaper and Periodical

Amelar, Sarah. “Restoration of 42nd Street.” Architecture March 1998: 146-50.

Chang, Kenneth. “The Melting (Freezing) of Antarctica.” New York Times 2 Apr. 2002: F1+.

Personal Interview (listed by name of person you have interviewed)

Perdue, Pete. Personal Interview. 1 Dec. 2000.

Email (Communication Between Two Parties, Not including the Author)

Neyhart, David. “Re: Online Tutoring.” E-mail to Joe Barbato. 1 Dec. 2000.

Entire Web Site

Author Last Name, First Name. Name of Site. Date of Posting/Revision. Name of institution affiliated with the site. Date you accessed the site. <electronic address>.

Works Cited

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA handbook for writers of research papers. 6th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1999.

MLA Format for Annotated Bibliographies. 2006. Lesley Library at Lesley University. 3 November 2006. <http://www.lesley.edu/library/guides/citation/mla_annotated.html>.

The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. 26 Aug. 2005. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue University. 23 April 2006. <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/>.