MLA Style: Works Cited Format
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.
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 (this is a "hanging" indent and can be formatted easily under "Format" > "Paragraph" > "Indent" > "Hanging" ".5". In this way the reader (or instructor) can easily scan the left margin and find the appropriate entry by author.
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