MLA Style: Basic Book Citation
Paper Format Works Cited Format Basic Book Citation Basic Article Citation Article Citation with Volume Article Citation with Volume and Issue Works Cited or Bibliography?
Your works cited list should begin on a separate page from the text of the essay under the label Works Cited (with no quotation marks, underlining, etc.), centered at the top of the page. You should follow the same rules for margins as you did throughout the paper. Entries should be placed in alphabetical order by author. If no author is listed, alphabetize by the first word of the title (book or article). If the first word is "the," alphabetize by the second word in the title. Double space all entries, with no skipped spaces between entries.
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The first line of each entry (of every style) is flush with the left margin. Subsequent lines of each entry are indented 1/2 inch. In this way the reader (or instructor) can easily scan the left margin and find the appropriate entry by author.
Book with one author -- this is the format:
Author(s). Title of Book. Place of Publication:
Publisher, Year of Publication.
Book with one author -- this is an example:
Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays.
Princeton: Princeton UP, 1957.
Because of the limitations of webpage formatting, you may not see the entry above with a "hanging indent." You should, however, format your citations with a hanging indent as you see in the example page.
You do this in MSWord by highlighting your entire "Works Cited" page, selecting "Format," "Paragraph," "Indentation, Special (select "hanging"), By (enter ".5").
This is also a good time to format for double spacing, then your formatting is correct no matter what changes you make to the text.
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