MLA Style Guide

The list of works cited begins on a new page at the end of the scholarly work; center and title each page with "Works Cited"; number each page continuing the sequence of the text.  Use parenthetical notes in the text (see next page) to specify what you derived from the list of works cited.

Each entry begins flush with the left margin; if the entry is more than one line long, indent each subsequent line five spaces.  The entire list should be double spaced between entries and within entries.  Alphabetize the citations by the author's last name; if the author's last name is unknown, alphabetize the entry by the first word in the title other than an article.

Books

Book- single author
    Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton UP, 1957.

Book- more than one author
   Bondanella, Peter, and Julia Conaway Bondanella, eds. Dictionary of Italian Literature. Westport: Greenwood, 1979.

A Multivolume Work
   Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature. 2nd ed. Vol. 2. New York: Ronald, 1970. 2 vols.

A Work in an Anthology
   Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. Black Theatre: A Twentieth-Century Collection of the Work of Its Best Playwrights. Ed. Lindsay Patterson. New York: Dodd, 1971. 221-76.

Journal Articles

Article from a Journal (continuous paging in volume)
   Spear, Karen. "Building Cognitive Skills in Basic Writers." Teaching English in the Two Year College 9 (1983): 91-98.

Article from a Journal (each issue paged separately)
   Monk, Patricia. "Frankenstein's Daughter's: The Problems of the Feminine Image in Science Fiction." Mosaic 13.3-4 (1980):15-27.

Newspapers

Article from a Newspaper
   Dalin, Damon. "A $7 Greeting Card? Yes, But Listen To The Melody It Will Play For You." Wall Street Journal 10 May 1983, eastern ed.: D37.

Reference Books

Reference Book Article- Unsigned
   "Graham, Martha." Who's Who of American Women. 13th ed. 1983-84.

Reference Book Article- Signed
   Chiappini, Luciano. "Este, House of." Encyclopedia Britannica: Macropaedia. 1974 ed.

Electronic Resources

World Wide Web Based Resource
   Churchyard, H. "Pride and Prejudice- Notes on Education, Marriage, Status of Women, etc." Jane Austen Information Page 1994-95. Online. Internet. 28 May 1995. Available HTTP: uts.cc.utexas.edu/~churchh/pptopic2.html

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