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MLA Documentation Help: Works Cited Page

This guide provides help with citation and documentation in MLA format

Formatting the works cited page

In-Text Citations (also called parenthetical citations) are used int he body of a research project to acknowledge the original author or source each time words, facts, or ideas are incorporated from an outside source. In-text citations identify specifically where in the original work material was found.

  • Begin the list of works cited on a new page, continuing the page numbers from the body of the paper.
  • Center the title of the page (Works Cited) one inch from the top of the page.
  • Entries are arranged in a single list alphabetically by the first piece of information in the entry (usually the author's last name).
  • Align the start of each entry with the left margin. Indent any subsequent lines one-half inch (or five spaces).
  • Double-space the list, both within and between entries.
  • For multiple entires under one name: include the author's full name in the citation. For each subsequent entry, add three dashes to replace the author's name.

Sample Works Cited Page

Works Cited

"Blueprint Lays Out Clear Path for Climate Action." Environmental Defense Fund. Environmental Defense

         Fund, 8 May 2007. Web. 24 May 2009.

Clinton, Bill. Interview by Andrew C. Revkin. “Clinton on Climate Change.” New York Times. New York

          Times, May 2007. Web. 25 May 2009.

Ebert, Roger. "An Inconvenient Truth." Rev. of An Inconvenient Truth, dir. Davis Guggenheim. 

         Rogerebert.com. Sun-Times News Group, 2 June 2006. Web. 24 May 2009.

Gowdy, John. "Avoiding Self-organized Extinction: Toward a Co-evolutionary Economics of   

         Sustainability." International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology 14.1  (2007):    

         27-36. Print.

An Inconvenient Truth. Dir. Davis Guggenheim. Perf. Al Gore, Billy West. Paramount, 2006. DVD.

Leroux, Marcel. Global Warming: Myth Or Reality?: The Erring Ways of Climatology. New York: Springer,

         2005. Print.

Nordhaus, William D. "After Kyoto: Alternative Mechanisms to Control Global Warming." American

        Economic Review 96.2 (2006): 31-34. Print.

---. "Global Warming Economics." Science 9 Nov. 2001: 1283-84. Science Online. Web. 24 May 2009.

Shulte, Bret. "Putting a Price on Pollution." Usnews.com. US News & World Report 6 May 2007. Web. 24

         May 2009.

Uzawa, Hirofumi. Economic Theory and Global Warming. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. Print.