A Sample Works Cited Page
The Modern Language Association format calls the list of sources the "Works Cited" page. A sample "Works Cited" page has certain general characteristics:
- sources are listed alphabetically, by authors' last names
- sources without authors are listed alphabetically by either the editor's last name or by the title of the work (disregarding the words "a," "an," and "the")
- each source entry starts at the left margin
- Second (2nd) & subsequent lines of each entry are indented 5 spaces
- titles should be capitalized correctly in each entry
A sample "Works Cited" page in MLA format looks like this.
Note: The below examples have been typed on one line. Depending upon your screen resolution, you may see them on one line or on two. If you see these examples on two lines, then please note that the second and subsequent lines of each entry are supposed to be indented 5 spaces. For a more complete listing of citation examples from A Writer's Reference (2003, Fifth Edition) by Diana Hacker, please bookmark her Research and Documentation site: http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/
Works Cited
Baker, Houston A., Jr. Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Bloom, Harold, ed. Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. New York: Chelsea House, 1987.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. 1937. Online. U of Minnesota Lib. Internet. 26 July 1995. Available: gopher.cic.net.
Raye, Louise, and Sandra Knight. Somebody's Watching, God: A Collection of Essays on Zora Neale Hurston. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
Wolff, Maria Tai. "Listening & Living: Reading & Experience in Their Eyes." Black American Literature Forum 16.1 (1982): 29-32.
