Guidelines for WORKS CITED: using the MLA (Modern Languages Association) format.

If you use an online citations-formatting-service, make sure they use MLA formatting.

For more information on MLA style, see:

and/or

The following information is taken from the Sir Charles Tupper Student Agenda 2006-2007:

Creating Citations

Examples:

Book with a single author

McCullough, David. Truman. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Book with more than one author

Roberts, Kenneth and Philip Shackleton. The Canoe: A History of the Craft from Panama to the Arctic.

Toronto: Macmillan, 1983.

Anthology

Weaver, Robert, ed. Canadian Short Stories. Toronto: OxfordUniversity Press, 1960.

Article in Encyclopedia, Signed

Mohanty, Jitendra M. “Indian Philosophy.” The New Encyclopedia Britannica: Macropaedia.

15th ed. 1987.

Article in Magazine

Schwarz, Benjamin. “What Jefferson Helps to Explain.” Atlantic Monthly16 Oct. 1995: 160-63.

Article Newspaper

Johnston, David Cay. “Got Game? Got Old Game?” New York Times11 July 2003, late ed., sec. F: 1.

Film/Movie/Videocassette

Inherit the Wind. Dir. Stanley Kramer. Perf. Spencer Tracy and Frederic March. United Artists, 1960.

Television or Radio Program

“Nirvana in Nova Scotia.” Narr. by Arthur Kent. Man Alive. CBC Television. 2 Feb. 1995.

Internet/Web-based information

“This Day in Technology History: August 20.” History Channel.com 2002

History Channel. 14 May 2002 <

Sources differ about whether to include the words ‘viewed on’ / ‘retrieved on’ before date of your access.

Additional information about citing web-based information, taken from:

An Entire Web Site - Basic format:

Name of Site. Date of Posting/Revision. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sometimes found in copyright statements). Date you accessed the site <electronic address>.

For an individual page on a Web site, list the author if known, followed by the information as above for entire Web sites.

Stolley, Karl. “MLA Formatting and Style Guide.” The OWL at Purdue. 10 May 2006. PurdueUniversity Writing Lab. 12 May 2006 <

“Caret.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 28 April 2006. 10 May 2006

An Article from an Electronic Database. When citing material accessed via database or online collection the library subscribes to, copy the citation provided OR cite the relevant publication information as you would for a magazine (author, article title, magazine title, and volume, date, and page number information) followed by the name of the database, the name of the library through which you accessed the content, plus date of access.

If a URL is available for the home page of the service, include it. Do not include a URL to the article itself, because it is not openly accessible.

See Ms Galloway / Ms North for help.

Personal Interview

Taylor, Maureen. Personal interview. 21 Jan. 2003.

Creating a WORKS CITED page

The WORKS CITED page must always be placed at the end of your work on a separate piece of paper.

The title for the page is WORKS CITED.It was formerly called a Bibliography.

You must list, in ALPHABETICAL ORDERby author, editor or first word of the citation (e.g. title) all sources.

DO NOT number the entries.

Underline or italicize titles of books and articles. Websites are to be underlined or put in <…> brackets.

Begin all entries at the margin; indent all subsequent lines.

Leave a double space between entries.

Punctuation is important and must be consistent. The final punctuation of all entries is always a period.