MLA Documentation: Works Cited Page
On (a) separate page(s) at the end of your paper, list alphabetically by author every wok cited in your paper, using the basic forms illustrated below. Title the page Works Cited (not Bibliography), and list only those sources you actually cited in your paper. Underline or italicize titles of books and periodicals. Double-space all text (note: not as spaced here). Begin an entry at the margin; indent the remaining lines five spaces.
I would like to know more about
Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays.
Princeton: Princeton UP, 1957.
---. The Secular Scripture. Cambridge: Harvard UP,
1976.
Howe, Russell Warren, and Sarah Hays Trott. The Power
Peddlers. Garden City: Doubleday, 1977.
Edens, Walter, et al., eds. Teaching Shakespeare.
Princeton: Princeton UP, 1977.
Freedberg, S. J. Andrea del Sarto. 2 vols.
Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1963.
National Institute for Dispute Resolution. Dispute
Resolution Resource Directory. Washington, D.C.: Natl.
Inst. for Dispute Res., 1984.
Shakespeare, William. The First Folio of Shakespeare:
The Norton Facsimile. Ed. Charlton Hinman. New York:
Norton, 1968.
Harari, Josue, ed. Textual Strategies. Ithaca:
Cornell UP, 1979.
Magny, Claude-Edmonde. "Faulkner or Theological Inversion."
Faulkner: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed.
Robert Penn Warren. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1966.
66-78.
Altick, Richard, and John J. Fenstermaker. The Art of
Literary Research. 4th ed. New York: Norton, 1993.
Bharati, Agehananda. "Pilgrimage in the Indian Tradition."
History of Religions 3 (1982): 135-67.
Alpern, David M. "Has Moscow Violated SALT?"
Newsweek 22 Oct. 1984: 32.
Crossette, Barbara. "India Lodges First Charges in Arms
Scandal." New York Times 23 Jan. 1990, natl. ed.:
A4.
Magny, Claude-Edmonde. "Faulkner or Theological Inversion."
Faulkner: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed.
Robert Penn Warren. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1966.
66-78.
New York State. Commission on the Adirondacks in the
Twenty-First Century. The Adirondack Park in the
Twenty-First Century. Albany: State of New York,
1990.
Foster, John S., Jr. "Nuclear Weapons." Encyclopedia
Americana. 1981 ed.
White, Donna. Personal interview. 25 Dec. 1992.
Lee, Spike, dir. and prod. Do the Right Thing. Forty
Acres and a Mule Filmworks, 1989.
Note: The MLA guidelines for citing sources in electronic form are new and will probably evolve over time. Do the best you can to identify the items of information required for each type of electronic publication (e.g., author, title of document or text, title of database, publication medium, name of vendor, etc.; these items are listed section oby section on pp. 151-67 in the Handbook) and to follow the example presented for each type. If you cannot find all the information required, the Handbook advises that you cite what is avaliable.
Saban, Joseph Matthew. "Practical uses of Standardized Test
Data." DAI 54 (1994): 2998. Northern Illinois U,
1993. Dissertation Abstracts Ondisc. CD-ROM.
UMI-Proquest. Aug. 1995.
Sexton, Joe. "Career in Bodegas Ends in Death of Man and
Son." New York Times 29 July 1995, late ed.: A21.
New York Times Online. Online. Nexis. 5 Aug. 1995.
United States Bureau of the Census, Population Division.
"Monthly Estimates of the United States Population."
Online. Internet. 11 Aug. 1995. Available URL:
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/population/estimate-
extract/nation/intfile1-1.txt.
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