Sample MLA Works Cited Page

Arnow, Harriet. The Dollmaker. New York: Avon, 1972.

[This is the format for a book by one author.]

Baldwin, James. "Sonny's Blues." Norton Introduction to
     Literature. Eds. Carl E. Bain, Jerome Beaty, and J. Paul
     Hunter. 5th ed. New York: Norton, 1991. 28-50.

[This example shows the format for a story, article, or poem found in an anthology or collection. Note that page numbers are included at the end of the citation.]

Carpenter, Richard C. Introduction. Far from the Madding
     Crowd. By Thomas Hardy. New York: Bantam, 1967. vii-xii.

[Introductions, forewords, prefaces, and afterwords all follow the format shown in this example. Be sure to include page numbers.]

 

"City Profile: San Francisco." CNN.com. 2002. Cable News Network. 14 May

     2002 <http://www.cnn.com/TRAVEL/atevo/city/SanFrancisco/intro.html>.

[To document information from a personal or professional internet site, begin the entry with the author, if given; the title of the page in quotes; the title of the site (underlined); the name of the editor of the site, if given; the date of electronic publication or of the latest update; the name of any sponsoring institution or organization; the date of access; and the URL.]

 

Flanigan, Beverly Olson. "Peer Tutoring and Second Language
     Acquisition in the Elementary School." Applied Linguistics
     12 (1991): 141-58.

[For an article in a scholarly journal -- that is, a journal not intended for popular audiences -- include the volume and issue number (if applicable) after the journal title and place the year in parentheses, followed by a colon and the page numbers.]

Frank, Michael. "The Wild, Wild West." Architectural Digest June
     1993: 180+.

[For magazine articles, list the month and year after the magazine title. Use a plus sign after the first page number only if the page numbers are not consecutive.]

Jakobson, Roman, and Linda R. Waugh. The Sound Shape of Language.
     Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1979.

[For a book with two or three authors, cite the full name of the second and third authors after a comma. For a book with more than three authors, you may name only the first author followed by et al.]

Raimer, Mark. "The War of the Words: Revamping Operational
     Terminology for UFOs." ETC: A Review of General Semantics
     56.1 (1999): 53-57. Expanded Academic ASAP. INFOTRAC.
     Columbia Coll. Stafford Lib., Columbia, MO. 21 Oct. 2002
     <http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/colu27235/>.

[To document material retrieved from an online service to which a library subscribes (e.g. EBSCOhost, INFOTRAC), complete the citation by stating the name of the database used (underlined), if known; the name of the service; the library; and the date of access. If you know the URL of the service's home page, give it, in angle brackets, immediately after the date of access.]

Victorian Women Writers Project. Ed. Perry Willett. May 2000. Indiana U.
     26 June 2002 <http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/>.

[To document an entire online scholarly project or professional site, begin the entry with the title of the site (underlined); the name of the editor of the site (if given); electronic publication information, including version number (if relevant and if not part of the title), date of electronic publication or of the latest update, and name of any sponsoring institution or organization; date of access and URL.]

Remember to double-space the entire list.

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