Welcome to the Macopin Media Center
Mrs. Carol Schunke
Media Specialist
(973) 697-5691 ext. 171
All databases for research can
be accessed from your home computer.
The information below will assist you in completing your assignments
WORKS CITED INFORMATION
NOTE: all information and guidelines presented here are taken from the
MLA (Modern Language Association)
Handbook for Writers of Research
Papers,5th edition.
Include name and page number in the upper right-hand corner as you do
with all other pages and center the title Works Cited (not underlined or in
quotations) one inch from the top of the page. Double space between the
title and the first entry.
Arrange the list in alphabetical order according to the last name of the
author or the first letter of the first main word in a title where no author is
cited (ignore "a," "an," and "the.").
Begin the first line of an entry at the left margin; for any lines following
the first, indent five spaces
Double-space within and between entries.
Do not number works cited entries.
SAMPLE ENTRIES
Book with single author
Henley, Patricia. "The Hummingbird House." Denver: MacMurray, 1999.
Book with multiple author
Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. "The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring." Boston: Allyn, 2000.
"HOW TO" SITES
"On Line" Citation Styles
www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite5.html
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