WORLD HISTORY

MLA CITATION GUIDE

WORKS CITED PAGE

General Requirements:

• The phrase Works Cited should be centered at the top of the page.
• Double-space entries, tab or indent 5 spaces after first line of entry.
• List alphabetical by either the author’s last name or the title of the source.  Do not number entries.
• Abbreviate the names of all months except May.
• Include the medium of publication (Print or Web).
• Place a period at the very end of the citation.

A book by one author:

English, Carol. The Cliff Notes Won’t Do, Read the Book. Philadelphia: McGraw-Hill,

            2008. Print.

Book with More Than One Author

The first given name appears in last name, first name format; subsequent author names appear in first name last name format.

Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston:

            Allyn, 2000. Print.

An Entire Web Site

List your date of access because web postings are often updated, and information available on one date may no longer be available later.  Use n.p. if no publisher name is available and n.d. if no date is given.

The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U,

            2 Feb. 2008. Web. 23 Jun. 2008.

Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). Name of Site. Name of institution/organization

            affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date. Medium of publication. Date of access.

An Individual Page from a Website:

Smith, George. “Graf Has Look of Champion.” ESPNET Sports Zone. ESPN, 29 Aug.

2008. Web. 3 Oct. 2008.

Author (if known). “Name of Page or Document.” Title of website. Publisher Name/Sponser,

date of last update. Medium. Date of access.

An Image on the Internet (Painting, Sculpture, or Photograph):

Goya, Franciso. The Family of Charles IV. 1800. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. 

            Mark Harden’s Artchive. Web. 22 May 2009.

Artist Name.  Title of Work of Art. Year of Creation.  The Institution where the work is

            housed, followed by the city.  Website Name.  Medium. Date of Access.

INTERNAL CITATIONS

General Requirements:

• Include information that directs readers to the corresponding entry on the Works Cited page.
• If you include the author’s name in the sentence introducing the information you can just provide the page numbers in the internal citation.
• Move the period from the end of the sentence to the end of the citation.

For a Print Book/Article:

Use the author’s last name and page number of the text with no punctuation between:

Ancient Egyptian religious practices were centered around the belief that the “afterlife was a continuation of life on earth.” (Smith 98).

Citing Indirect Sources

Sometimes you may have to use an indirect source. An indirect source is a source cited in another source. For such indirect quotations, use "qtd. in" to indicate the source you actually consulted. For example:

Ravitch argues that high schools are pressured to act as "social service centers, and they don't do that well" (qtd. in Weisman 259).

For the Internet:

Include the first item that appears in the Work Cited entry, but there is no need to give page or paragraph numbers.

If there is an author: (Smith).

If there is no known author, either use the title or a short form of the title: (“Little Rock Central High School”). or (“Little Rock”).

More specific MLA rules governing other types of sources can be accessed at: http://owl.english.purdue.edu.