MLA style requires you to list your sources with full bibliographic information at the end of the paper. The usual title is "Works Cited." The list begins on a new page and continues the paper's page numbers. Like other page numbers, the page number appears in the upper-right hand corner, half an inch from the top and flush with the right margin (all margins are one inch).
The title is centered, an inch from the top of the page. Double-space between title and the first entry. Each entry begins flush with the left margin, and is then indented half an inch (learn how to do hanging indents in your word processor of choice to manage this; in a pinch, indent five spaces from the left margin). The whole list is double-spaced with no blank line between entries.
Alphabetizing Citation Rule:
List names in alphabetical order by last name of the forst author using letter-by-letter system.
For Example:
Gold, Thomas M.
Golding, Sandra.
Golding, Terence.
Example of a "Works Cited" page
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Works Cited
Brindle, Reginald Smith. "The Search Outwards: The Orient, Jazz, Archaisms." The New Music:
The Avant-Grade since 1945. New York: Oxford UP, 1975. 133-45.
Burneett, James. "Ellington's Place as a Composer." Gammond 141-55
(Continue the list on as many pages as necessary)
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Samples on the Humanities Style and Scientific Style
Humanities Style
To cite files available on the WWW, give the author's name, last name first (if known); the full title of the work, in quotation marks; the title of the complete work (if applicable), in italics; any version or file numbers; and the date of the document or last revision (if available). Next, list the protocol (e.g., "http") and the full URL, followed by the date of access in parentheses.
Burka, Lauren P. "A Hypertext History of Multi-User Dimensions." MUD History.
1993. <http://www.utopia.com/talent/ lpb/muddex/essay> (2 Aug. 1996).
Scientific Style
Give the author's last name and initials (if known) and the date of publication in parentheses. Next, list the full title of the work, capitalizing only the first word and any proper nouns, in italics; any version or file numbers, enclosed in parentheses; the protocol and address, including the path or directories necesssary to access the document; and finally the date accessed, enclosed in parentheses.
Burka, L. P. (1993). A Hypertext History of Multi-user Dimensions.
MUD history. <http://www.utopia.com/talent/ lpb/muddex/essay> (2 Aug. 1996)
