Citing your sources You will create a list of the resources you used for your research There is a...

Citing your sources• You will create a list of the resources you

used for your research• There is a pattern! You are using MLA

style, but there are many other styles• We will cite a book together, then you will

cite one on your own

Example:Works Cited

Braswell, Karen. I Have Traveled Through Time. Las Cruces: Harbrow

Publications, 1999. Print.

Wolfe, Emerson. What are you Driving? El Paso: Mills and Luna Association,

2007. Print.

Rules to remember

• Title this page:Works Cited

It is centered on your page and you skip two lines and begin your citations

• The works are in alphabetical order• Skip one line between citations• First line of each different citation is at the

margin, second, third, fourth…lines are indented (reverse indention)

Author’s name:

Gibaldi, Joseph.

author’s last name, first name.

• Two authors• List first author, and second author.Webber, Elizabeth, and Mike Feinstilber.

Italicize the title of the book, use capital letters appropriately:

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.

Editions

If your book has an edition number:• Add information after the title• Example: 3rd ed.

6th ed.Use Rev. ed. for “Revised edition”Use Abr. ed. for “Abridged edition”Then continue with the city of publication…

City of publication (not state): and Publisher,

New York: The Modern Language Association of America,

After listing the publisher, place a comma

Copyright year, check for the most recent year:It looks like 2003 but if you keep looking…

Here a more recent date is on second page

Multiple years listed: go with most recent

Multiple copyright dates:select the most recent

Other things to look at:

Information is listed within first two/three pages

Title and Author are on cover,titles are capitalized, articles and

prepositions are not

This book has been published in many cities

Always list first city listed

List up to two authors, more than that refer to the formula

Always cite your sources. Give credit where credit is due.

Check your…

• paper for the correct punctuation• periods in correct places• capitalization• skip lines between each citation• alphabetizing of all citations • reverse indention• correct style for book, internet and

database, they vary

• I believe in you, you can cite correctly!

• You are good looking and smart too!

• The end!

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. New

York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2004. Print.