Now with 2009 MLA update! MLA DOCUMENTATION STYLE: WORKS CITED PAGE Most humanities disciplines use Modern Language Association (MLA) style to cite sources. MLA-style documents include brief in-text citations (see quicktip on “MLA Documentation Style: In-Text Citations”) in combination with a more detailed listing of sources in a separate Works Cited page at the end of a document. The requirements for what to include in Works Cited entries are designed so that another researcher could find and refer to the same sources you’ve included. Below are guidelines adapted from Diana Hacker’s Pocket Style Manual, 5th ed., that show the basic principles of most forms of MLA citation: Book 1 Author 2 Title and subtitle 3 City of publication 4 Publisher 5 Date of publication 6 Medium 1 3 Black, Laurel Johnson. Between Talk and Teaching: Reconsidering the Writing Conference. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 1998. Print. 4 Article (print) 1 Author 2 Title and subtitle 3 Name of periodical 4 Volume and issue numbers (for scholarly journal) 5 Date or year of publication 6 Page numbers 7 Medium 2 6 5 1 2 Breuch, Lee-Ann Kastman. “The Idea(s) of an Online Writing Center: In Search of a Conceptual Model.” The Writing Center Journal 25.2 (2005): 21–38. Print. 3 4 5 6 7 Short work from a website 1 Author 2 Title of short work 3 Title of website 4 Sponsor of website 5 Update date (“n.d.” if there is no date) 6 Medium 7 Date of access 2 1 3 George Mason University Writing Center. “Who is Allowed to Be Original?” Valuing Written Accents: International Voices in the U.S. Academy. George Mason University, n.d. Web. 13 Aug. 2009. 4 3 5 6 7 Article from a database 1 Author 2 Title and subtitle 3 Name of periodical 4 Volume and issue numbers 5 Date or year of publication 6 Page numbers 7 Name of database 8 Medium 9 Date of access 2 1 3 4 5 Haneda, Mari. “The Joint Construction of Meaning in Writing Conferences.” Applied Linguistics 25.2 (2004): 178–219. ERIC. Web. 13 Aug. 2009. 6 7 8 9 Here is an example of what an MLA-style works cited page typically looks like. Using standard formats for your entries enhances your credibility with academic readers, and alphabetizing your list helps fellow researchers quickly locate the sources that you refer to in the body of your text. For more formats & source types, visit http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/. Every entry begins flush left; additional lines are indented 0.5” from the left margin. Label your page “Works Cited” in the center of the first line. MLA-style Works Cited pages are evenly double-spaced, with one-inch margins all around. Entries are alphabetical by author, or, if no author, by title. Works Cited film or video The Big Lebowski. Dir. Ethan Coen and Joel Coen. Perf. Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, and Julianne Moore. Gramercy, 1998. DVD. work in a print anthology Bruffee, Kenneth. “Collaborative Learning and the ‘Conversation of Mankind.’” The Norton Book of Composition Studies. Ed. Susan Miller. New York: Norton, 2009. 545–62. Print.  online newspaper article Fahim, Kareem. “School Official Apologizes for Removing Photo of Kiss.” New York Times. New York Times, 26 June 2007. Web. 12 Aug. 2009. lecture or public address Gutjahr, Paul. “The Godfather: Seeing Double.” Department of English. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. 18 Nov. 1998. Lecture.  entire website  short work from a website Immigration History Research Center. U of Minnesota, 21 Apr. 2009. Web. 12 Aug. 2009. Lee, Taehohn. “The Financial Crisis and Refugees.” Immigration History Research Center. U of Minnesota, 2 Apr. 2009. Web. 12 Aug. 2009. entire edited print anthology print book with 2+ authors Miller, Susan, Ed. The Norton Book of Composition Studies. New York: Norton, 2009. Print. Peregoy, Suzanne, and Owen F. Boyle. Reading, Writing, and Learning in ESL. New York: Longman, 1997. Print. print book with one author  online book with one author translated print book Puzo, Mario. The Godfather. New York: Signet, 1978. Print. Sherman, Ben. Medic!: The Story of a Conscientious Objector in the Vietnam War. New York: Random House, 2004. Google Books. Google Books, n.d. Web. 12 Aug. 2009. Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina. Trans. Joel Carmichael. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1960. Print. United States. Selective Service System. Fast Facts: Conscientious Objection and Alternative  online government publication print journal article Service. US Selective Service System, 30 Apr. 2002. Web. 12 Aug. 2009. Villanueva, Victor. “Blind: Talking about the New Racism.” The Writing Center Journal 26.1 (2006): 3–19. Print. Wall, Brian. “‘Jackie Treehorn Treats Objects Like Women!’: Two Types of Fetishism in The  work from a database such as Academic Search Premier Big Lebowski.” Camera Obscura 23.69 (2009): 110–135. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Aug. 2009.  = electronic resource