English 102, danika brown (http://www.u.arizona.edu/~danika)
Work Cited Guidelines
Be sure to check in the Student's Guide for information regarding
"Works Cited" pages and internal documentation of sources. You can find
on-line information for traditional print sources at: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/Files/33.html
and for on-line source documentation at: http://falcon.eku.edu/honors/beyond-mla/.
Here is some general information and samples.
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The actual page must be titled, centered, Works Cited
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The page should be single spaced except double spaces between entries.
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The first line of the entry begins at the left margin, the second and any
additional lines are indented 5 spaces.
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The entries must be in alphabetical order by author's last name.
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If an entry has no author, the entry is alphabetized by the first word
in the article (not including articles such as "a," "the," etc.).
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If there are multiple authors, you must keep the author's in the same order
as they appear on the publication.
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Use italics rather than underlining in the title of books, journals, etc.
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Pay close attention to where items are divided by commas, periods, or colons.
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Every entry should end with a period.
Sample entries: (these examples are taken from the Purdue
On-line Writing Center Handout)
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an article in a newspaper
Strout, Richard L. "Another Bicentennial." Christian Science Monitor
10 Nov. 1978: 27.
"Drunkproofing Automobiles." Time 6 Apr. 1987: 37.
United States Dept. of Labor. Bureau of Statistics. Dictionary of
Occupational Titles. 4th ed. Washington: GPO, 1977.
Acura. Advertisement. Rolling Stone. 16 May 1996: 8-9.
IBM. Advertisement. CNN. 4 May 1996.
Electronic sources
Danford, Tom. "Monday Greetings." E-mail to Terry Craig. 13 Sept. 1993.
Shaumann, Thomas Michael. "Re: Technical German." 5 Aug. 1994. Online
posting. Newsgroup comp.edu.languages.natural.natural. Usenet.
7 Sept. 1994.
Lancashire, Ian. Home page. 1 May 1997 <http://
www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~ian/index.html>.
Landsburg, Steven E. "Who Shall Inherit the Earth?"Slate
1 May 1997. 2 May 1997 <http://www.slate.com/Economics/97-05-01/Economics.asp>.
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Material from an electronic journal, newsletter, or conference--
Provide author, title (in quotes), year or date of electronic issue,
number of pages or paragraphs, the medium, computer network, date of access,
and any supplementary information
Shimabukuru, Jim, ed. "Internet in Ten Years--Essays."
_Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture_ 3.1 (1995): 62 par.
Online. BITNET. 5 Feb 1995.
In text citation guidelines:
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When you omit the author's name in your sentence:
One researcher has found that dreams move
backward in time as the night progresses (Dement 71).
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When you mention the author's name in your sentence:
Freud states that "a dream is the fulfillment
of a wish" (154).
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When you cite more than one work by the same author:
One current theory emphasizes the principle
that dreams express "profound aspects of personality" (Foulkes, Sleep 184).
But investigation shows that young children's dreams are "rather simple
and unemotional" (Foulkes, "Dreams" 78).
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When the work has two or three authors:
Psychologists hold that no two children are
alike (Gesell and Ilg 68).
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When the work has no author, begin with the word by which the title is
alphabetized in the Works Cited:
Random testing for use of steroids by athletes
is facing strong opposition by owners of several of these teams ("Steroids"
22).