To avoid plagiarism, students should always cite materials and ideas not of their own.  At Minico High School , the MLA citation forms are used unless otherwise specified by a teacher.  Below, you will find the formats for listing sources on a works cited page.  Please be aware that works cited pages should be double-spaced and in alphabetical order according to the author’s last name or the title of the work.

 

For most works, the in-text citation will consist of the authors’ last name(s) and the page number of the cited material.  If you use two or more selections by the same author, you must also include the title of the work.  Some works do not have authors; they will be cited by their titles.  Exceptions to these rules are listed after the works cited format.

 

Book with one author

Pyles, Thomas. The Origins and Development of the English Language

                   2^nd ed. New York :  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. 1971.

Book with two or three authors

          McCrum, Robert, William Cran, and Robert MacNeil.  The Story of English.

                   New York : Peguin Books, 1987.

Book with an editor

          Truth, Sojourner.  Narrative of Sojourner Truth.  Ed.Margaret Washington .

                   New York : Vintage Books, 1993.

Book with more than three authors or editors

          Donald, Robert B., et al. Writing Clear Essays.   Upper Saddle River , NJ :

                   Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1996

A single work from an anthology

          Hawthorne, Nathaniel.  "Young Goodman Brown."  Literature: An Introduction

                   To Reading and Writing.   Ed. Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs.

                   Upper Saddle River , NJ :  Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1998.  376-385.

          [Indicate pages for the entire selection.]

An essay or chapter in a collection containing several author's contributions

complied by an editor (i.e. Opposing Viewpoints, The Reference Shelf, etc.

          Robinson, Lillian S.  " America 's Cultural Heritage is Diverse and Multiethnic."

                   Interracial America .  Ed. Bonnie Szumski. San Diego , CA :  Greenhaven

                   Press, Inc., 19196.  24-30.

SIRS

          Frey, Darcy.  George Divoky's Planet."  New York Times Magazine, 6 Jan. 2002 ,

                   24+.  Science 2003.  Ed. Eleanor Goldstein.  Boca Raton , Fl; SIRS

                   Publishing, Inc., 2003.  Art. 1

          In-text citation: (Frey, Art.1)

Scholarly journal with continuous pagination (CQ Researcher)

          Koch, Kathy.  "Truck Safety."  CQ Researcher 9(1999):  209-32

LILI

Last Name, First Name.  "Title of Article." Libraries Linking Idaho      http://www.lili.org  (download date).

Date should be in military style (e.g. 9 Jan. 2002 ).

Signed article in a weekly magazine

          Wallace, Charles.  "A Vodacious Deal."  Time 14 Feb. 2000 : 63.

Signed article in a monthly magazine

          Gustaitis, Joseph.  "The Sticky History of Chewing Gum."  American History

                   Oct. 1998: 30-38.

Unsigned editorial or story

          "Selective Silence."  Editorial.  Wall Street Journal 11 Feb. 2000 : A14.

                   [If the editorial is signed, begin with the author's name.]

 

Signed pamphlet

          [Treat the pamphlet as though it were a book.

Pamphlet with no author, publisher, or date

          Are You at Risk of Heart Attack? n.p.  n.d.

          [n.p. n.d. indicates that there is no known publisher or date]

Filmstrips, slide programs, and videotapes

          The Diary of Anne Frank.  Dir. George Stevens.  Perf. Millie Perkins, Shelly

Winters, Joseph Schildkraut, Lou Jacobi, and Richard Beymer.  Twentieth Century Fox.  1959.

Radio or television program (transcript)

          "The First Immortal Generation."  Ockham's Razor.  Host Robyn Williams.

                   Guest Damien Broderick.  National Public Radio.  23 May 1999.

                   Transcript.

Internet

          National Association of Chewing gum Manufacturers.  19 Dec. 1999

                   http://www.nacgm.org/consumer/funfacts.html

          [Indicate the date you accessed the information.  Content and address change frequently.]

Personal Interview

          Smith, Jane.  Personal Interview.  10 Feb. 2000 .

Newspaper

          Thurow, Roger.  "South Africans Who Fought for Sanctions Now Scrap for

                   Investors."  Wall Street Journal 11 Feb. 2000 :  A1+

[For a multipage article, write only the first number on which it appears, followed by a plus sign.]

 

E-Mail

          Lunsford, Andrea A.  "New Examples."  E-mail to Kristin Bowen.  26 Jan. 1997 .

Material for these pages is taken directly from the following sources:

Carroll, Joyce Armstrong, Edward E. Wilson, and Gary Forlini.  Writing and Grammar:  Communications in Action.   Upper Saddle River , NJ :  Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2001.

Lunsford, Andrea and Robert Connors.  The Everyday Writer:  A Brief Reference.   Boston :  Bedford/St. Martin's,          1999. 

Reinking, James A., Andrew Hart, and Robert von der Osten.   Strategies for Successful Writing:  A Rhetoric,        Reader, and Handbook.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Prentice Hall, 1993.

 

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