"WORKS CITED"
BIBLIOGRAPHY LAYOUT RULES
- “Works Cited” should be
at the top center of the page (without quotation
marks).
- A header consisting of the
student’s last name and page number of the Works Cited page
should appear in the upper right-hand corner of the page.
- There should be a one-inch margin
on all sides of the page.
- All entries in the Works Cited
page must correspond to an in-text citation of one kind or
another. In other words, in your papers, you must reference the
source document (electronic or print) somewhere in the text of
your paper.
- All entries must be alphabetized
by the last name of the author or, if there is no listed author,
by the first word that is not an article (a, an, or the) in the
title of the web page or document. For example, in the below
bibliography, "After Abortion ...." comes before "Muller, Jerry
..."
- All lines must be double
spaced.
- A period must follow every
section of each Works Cited entry.
- Second and additional lines of a
long Works Cited entry must be indented five (5) characters from
the left.
- information may not be available
for every section of a citation. Eliminate those sections for
which information is lacking.
- For the way a citation should be
formatted, see the MLA Handbook (which also has an example "Works
Cited" page) in the library (I recommend buying your own, latest
edition style manuals) or see the MLA's own "How
do I document sources from the Web in my works-cited
list?"
EXAMPLE LAYOUT OF
A WORKS CITED PAGE.
- NOTES: Because
this is a web page, it does not display exactly how a printed page
should appear.)
