How to Write a Works Cited Page
In order to write a Works Cited page you must :
Format the Works Cited Page
When formating your Works Cited page adhere to the following guidlines:
- Start your Works Cited page on a new page.
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Keep the formatting consistent with the rest of your paper. Use the same font, keep the margins equal, and maintain double-spacing.
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Keep a header in the upper-right corner that includes your last name and the page number.
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Title the page Works Cited. Center the title at the top of the page. Do not underline, place quotations marks, or punctuate the title in any way.
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List entries in alphabetical order by the authors' last names. For works with no author, alphabetize by the first word of the entry ignoring A, An, or The.
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Create a hanging indent. After the first line of each entry, all lines should be indented one-half inch or five spaces.
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Do not add any extra spaces between entries.
Example
Document the Sources
Every source you use in your paper needs to appear on your Works Cited page. Also, each source needs to be documented in a very specific way, and it likely won't be the same for all of your sources. For example, a newspaper article will need to be documented one way in your Works Cited page and a book by a single author will need to be documented another way.
To cite all of your sources correctly, you'll need to look up how to document each one of your sources. The table below lists many of the kinds of sources you can use. Use the links in the table to see how to document each kind of source.
Printed Sources
Book with One Author
Author's Last Name, First Name and Middle Initial. Book's Title. Volume or Edition.
Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of publication.
EXAMPLE:
Alcott, Louisa M. Little Women. New York: Penguin Books, 1997.
Book with Two Authors
First Author's Last Name, First Name and Middle Initial, and Second Author's First and Last
Name. Book Title. Volume or Edition. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of publication.
EXAMPLE:
Powell, Thomas A., and Dan Whitworth. HTML Programmer's Reference. 2nd ed. Berkeley:
McGraw-Hill, 2001.
Book with Three or More Authors
First Author's Last Name, First Name, et al. Book Title. Volume or Edition. Place of Publication:
Publisher, Year of publication.
EXAMPLE:
Edwards, Bruce H., et al. Calculus with Analytic Geometry. 5th ed. Massachusetts: D.C. Heath
and Company, 1994.
Two or More Books by the Same Author
Author's Last Name, First Name and Middle Initial. Book's Title. Volume or Edition. Place of
Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.
---Book's Title. Volume or edition. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of publication.
EXAMPLE:
Card, Orson Scott. Ender's Game. New York: Tor Books, 1994.
---.The Memory of Earth. New York: Tor Books, 1993.
Citing an Entire Anthology
Editor's Last Name, First Name and Middle Initial, ed(s). Title of Anthology. Volume or
Edition. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of publication.
EXAMPLE:
Cain, William E., ed. American Literature. Vol. 2. New York: Pearson Education, Inc., 2004.
Citing an Excerpt from an Anthology
Last name, First name. "Title of Excerpt." Title of Anthology. Ed. Editor name(s). Volume or
Edition. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of publication. Pages used.
EXAMPLE:
London, Jack. "To Build a Fire." American Literature. Ed. William E. Cain. 2nd ed. New York:
Pearson Education, Inc., 2004. 280-294.
Religious Works
Name of Religious Work, Specific Version. Place of Publication: Publisher or Entity, Year of
publication.
EXAMPLE:
The Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1989.
An Article in a Magazine
Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Title of magazine. Day Month Year: Page
Numbers.
EXAMPLE:
Hansen, Aaron. "The Pacific Ocean." Marine Biology. 20 Mar. 2007: 24-27.
An Article in a Newspaper
Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Newspaper [City Name, State] Day
Month Year: Page Numbers.
EXAMPLE:
Hale, Hollie. "Lighting the Flames of Spirit." The Scroll [Rexburg, ID] 16 Oct. 2007: 5.
Non-Print Sources
Personal Interview
Person's Last Name, First Name. Personal Interview. Day Month Year.
EXAMPLE:
Clark, Kim B. Personal Interview. 3 Oct. 2007.
Lecture or Speech
Speaker's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Speech (if any)" or type of speech. Meeting or event
where the speech was given. Exact Location, City, State. Day Month Year.
EXAMPLE:
Hammond, Ronald J. "First-person Faith in God." Devotional. Hart Auditorium. Brigham Young
University-Idaho, Rexburg, ID. 2 Oct. 2007.
Films and Movies
Title of Film. Dir. Director's Name. Perf. Performer's Name. Performer's Name. Original Release
Year. Videocasette or DVD. Film Studio or Distributor. Release year.
EXAMPLE:
Rogers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music. Dir. Robert Wise. Perf. Julie Andrews,
Christopher Plummer. 1965. Twentieth Century Fox. 2005.
Electronic Sources
* Please Note: if an URL is divided between two lines, break it only after a slash.
An Entire Web Site
Author's Last Name, First Name, if any. Title of the website. Latest update of website or original
publication date. Name of web site sponsors, if any. Day month year of access.
EXAMPLE:
Mormon.org. 2007. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 19 Oct.
2007.
One Page on a Web Site
Author's Last Name, First Name, if any. "Title of the document." Title of the website. Latest
update of website or original publication date. Name of web site sponsors, if any. Day month
year of access. URL with specific description.
EXAMPLE:
"Edgar Allan Poe." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 18 Oct. 2007. 19 Oct. 2007.
.
Long URLs
If the URL is over two lines long, don't include the entire Web address in your citation. Use the URL of the search page instead.
Author's Last Name, First Name, if any. "Title of the document." Title of the website. Latest
update of website or original publication date. Name of web site sponsors, if any. Day month
year of access.
EXAMPLE:
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "The Family: A Proclamation to the World." The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Oct. 2007. 19 Oct.
2007.
If linking to a specific search page is not appropriate, use "path" followed by the sequence of links used to get to the document from the home page.
Author's Last Name, First Name, if any. "Title of the document." Title of the website. Latest
update of website or original publication date. Name of web site sponsors, if any. Day month
year of access. . Path: Links Followed.
EXAMPLE:
Amazon.com. "General Returns Policy." Amazon.com. 19 Oct. 2007. http://www.amazon.com/.
Path: Help; Returns.
An Article in an Online Scholarly Journal
Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of the document." Title of the journal. Volume Number
(date): Page Numbers. Database. Library used to access the article, City, State. Day month
year of access.
EXAMPLE:
Canaday, Jr., Nicholas. "Ironic Humor as Defense in The Scarlet Letter." The South Central
Bulletin. 21 (1961): 17-18. JSTOR. David O. McKay Library, Rexburg, ID. 31 May 2007.
