Works Cited

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Works Cited

• Listing Sources Books

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All papers which contain in-text citations
require a bibliography. The Modern Language
Association recognizes two types of bibliography

• 1. The shorter Works Cited, which only lists
  works referenced in your essay.
• The longer Works Consulted, which lists all works
  you may have examined during the preparation of
  your text.

For our purposes, the simpler Works Cited page
will suffice.
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The Works Cited page is the last page (or more)
of your essay.

• The page is numbered, just like all the other
  pages of your essay, and the title will be set up
  as follows

Hershberger 8 Works Cited
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Order of Operations

• Book entries are alphabetized in a specific
  order
• 1. Author, by last name.
• 2. Minor title.
• 3. Major title.
• 4. Date of original publication.
• 5. Place of publication.
• 6. Publisher.
• 7. Year of publication.
• 8. Pages cited.
• This order applies, with minor variations, to
  most other types of entry.

Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment The
Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales.
1976. New York Vintage, 1989. 6-7.
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Locating Bibliographic Information

• To locate key bibliographic information, open
  your book to its main title page. A detailed
  record of publication data will be found on the
  back of this page.

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Hershberger 1 Works Cited
Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment
The Meaning and Importance of Fairy
Tales. 1976. New York Vintage,
1989. Sale, Roger. Fairy Tales and After
From Snow White to E.B. White.
Cambridge, Massachussetts Harvard
UP, 1979. 37-8. Zipes, Jack. Dont Bet On
the Prince Contemporary Feminist
Fairy Tales in North America and England.
1987. New York Routledge, 1989.
Note, too, that the first line of each
bibliographic entry is left justified and that
all subsequent lines are indented. This makes it
very easy to see the authors last name.
Note that the title Works Cited is centered, but
it is not underlined, bolded, or in quotation
marks.
No matter what you may have been taught in the
past, Works Cited entries are neither numbered
nor bulleted.
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Non-Book Sources

• There are, of course, specific methods for
  citing newspapers, periodicals, magazines,
  videos, television programs, films, works of art,
  interviews, Web sites, the Internet, maps,
  documents, tapes, etc. Our concern today is
  books.
• Remember, your reference texts outline
  appropriate citation methods for all sources and
  you should, therefore, familiarize yourself
  thoroughly with the MLA section of The Norton
  Field Guide to Writing.
• Should the Field Guide fail to answer your
  questions, the MLA Handbook is available in the
  reference section of the Library.

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No normal human being can be expected to remember
all of the ins and outs of MLA styleparticularly
as these evolve over time to embrace new
technologies and needs. When in doubt, turn to
the MLA Handbook, or to your Writers Reference.
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PowerPoint Presentation by Mark A. Spalding, BA,
MEd, MA, 2007.
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