MLA Citation Style
Posted on August 4, 2007
The references you make in your text to other sources are very brief – usually only the author’s last name and page number.
For complete information about the source, your readers will refer to the annotated bibliography that you provide at the end of your paper.
1. List only works you have cited in the text of your paper, not everything you have read (unless your instructor requires additional sources).
2. Begin the list on a new numbered page after the last page of the paper or any endnotes. Center the heading Works Cited. Do not use quotation marks, underlining, or a period with the heading.
3. Begin each entry with the author’s name, last name first (or the corporate name or the title of the work if no author is stated). Give any authors after the first in normal order. If the work has no stated author, list the works alphabetically, by the first main word of each entry. Do not number the entries.
4. Do not indent the first line of each entry, but indent all subsequent lines one-half inch (or five spaces). Double-space throughout.
5. Separate the main parts of each entry – author, title, and publishing information – with a period.
6. Capitalize all words in titles of books and articles except a, an, the, coordinating conjunctions, to in an infinitive, and prepositions unless they begin or end the title or subtitle.
7. Underline the titles of books and names of journals and magazines. Use italics only if your instructor approves and if your printer makes a clear distinction from regular type. Otherwise, underline all titles as in the examples in this section.
8. In the publication information for journals, newspapers, and magazines, abbreviate all months except May, June and July.
9. Give inclusive page numbers for articles and sections of books, but do not use “p.” (“pp.”) or the word page (pages) before page numbers in any reference
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