(Uhh.. I mean "teaching")

Writing and Typing your Works Cited 

Name__________________ Class______________ Date_________

General info:  “MLA style requires you to list your sources with full bibliographic information at the end of the paper. The usual title is "Works Cited." (Miss Carnie’s note: Do not put the title in quotes or add a period!)  The list begins on a new page and continues the paper's page numbers.

1. Open a Word Document

2. Go to File/Page Set up, and make sure the Top, Left, Bottom, and Right margins are

one inch. 

3. Go to Format/Paragraph, and under Indentation, Special, select "Hanging" and 0.5

"Each entry begins flush with the left margin, and if one line across to the right margin is not enough room for the entire citation, then" double space and indent half an inch for the second [and third, if necessary] lines.  "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)."  Source: http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/mla.html#references

4. Go to Format/font, and choose Black/ Times New Roman/ size 12.

Printing and fonts

Type or print; don't turn in handwritten formal work. Print on only one side of the page, in black ink. Use a plain serif or sans-serif font—no cursive fonts, for instance. Good serif choices are size 10 or 12, Times Roman and Palatino; good non-serif choices are Arial and Helvetica."

5. Go to View/Header Footer/ and  type in your last name plus whatever page number

this will be at the end of your essay.  Then right justify it so that it hugs the right border.

                                                                                                                                                    Carnie 4

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).

6.     Works Cited     and space it so that it is in the middle

The title is centered, an inch from the top of the page. Double-space between title and the first entry. The whole list is double-spaced with no blank line between entries.” Source: http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/mla.html#references

 (To see an illustration and to answer Works Cited questions, go to the source site listed below.)   Make sure you alphabetize your sources by the first entry.

Source: http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/mla.html#references

I recommend you go to Noodle Tools and use the drop down menu to help

you prepare your Works Cited. 

Prepare each citation from your notes and then copy and paste it into the Word Document.  (More info below if you need it.) Then arrange the entries alphabetically. 

 Aren't you excited to be creating  your Works Cited with Noodle Bib instead of the old way with white paper, a typewriter which ran out of ribbon in the middle of the night, and no white out? 

                                                                                                                         Carnie 4

Preparing your rough drafts of your Works Cited…. 

1. An article in an anthology

Author’s Last name,  First Name.  “Title of the Article in Quotations.”

Title of the Book.  Ed. First name  Last name.  City:  Publisher, Copyright.    

(Your notes here)

2. The script from a film or film clip on-line   (See http://vanguard.alief.isd.tenet.edu/carniep/movie_quotes.htm to review info.)

 Last name of director, First name of director, dir.  Title of Movie.

       Date of release.  Title of main page of site.  Date you accessed the site

       26  March  2003  <http://blake.prohosting.com/awsm/script/braveht.txt >. 

Note:  You may need to toggle the info back and forth in order to place  the second and third lines in five spaces.  When you type the url, if it automatically underlines the link in blue, then select the link, left click, right click, and choose “Remove hyperlink.”  Then you can re-format the font if it is wrong. 

(Your notes)

3. Your Other source:  (Here’s where it gets tricky and you have to look up the information.)  Decide what  type of source you used – either not on line.

     Look up the information below and fill in the blanks.  Write your notes below for your third source  (and any other sources if you have more than three.)

Not on line

Or on-line

Follow the directions and examples given at. http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/mla.html#internet

 Also, you can NoodleBib - The MLA and APA Bibliography Composer to put your Works Cited together.

For an on-line source, think about the following:

What are you citing?

The first thing you have to decide for an online reference is whether the reference should be to an entire site or a particular document at a site. Here's the basic format for a reference to an entire web site.

If you are going to be citing just one portion of the site, it will be more helpful to your reader to direct him to the specific section and URL:

But if you cite several different sections from one site, then things can get a bit complicated. If the citations are to different sections of a particular document, then make the bibliographic reference to the whole document (like the first example above) and use in-text signal phrases to direct your reader more specifically:

The author's name would point to the particular reference; the title in quotation marks would denote a section within the whole work in the reference. (Naturally, if the list of works cited has more than one work by the author, or works by other authors with the same last name, you'll have to add more specific information to the citation The page problem

One complication of online documents is that they usually lack page numbers, so it's not easy to point readers to particular passages. In order to direct readers as closely as possible to the right source passage, use whatever divisions the work is formatted in. Look for division numbers, section titles or for words like Introduction and Conclusion (see above for MLA style on quotation marks and underlining or italics for different kinds of titles).

Applying MLA guidelines to essays and papers

To make a document that follows current MLA style guidelines:

http://ccl.english.ohio-state.edu/handouts/miscellaneous/word/Advanced_Formatting_PC.htm

http://www.noodletools.com/quickcite/citref.html

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Works Cited Template-- Simply type your information into the page already created in

MLA format

Works Cited Format

 Use Noodle Tools to help you

write the data in MLA format: Noodle Tools

Citing information from a Galenet site

You can write your rough draft by hand, but I STRONGLY RECOMMEND that

you type it.  A student can make it look perfect when writing it by hand and

then wreck it when he or she types it and doesn't pay attention to spacing

and formatting in Word. 

Trust me... Type your rough draft.  :)

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