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MLA Citation Style Simplified

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In-text Citation

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Works-Cited Page - First Steps

Module 4
Works-Cited Page - Entries

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Making It Easier

    Module 3 - Works-Cited Page - First Steps

What is a works-cited page?
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The works-cited page provides complete bibliographic information for the sources you cite in your paper so that a reader will be able to locate your sources. To ensure the completeness of the information on your works-cited page, when you are doing your research, make certain that you have as much of the following information about your resources as is available:

Print and Electronic sources Electronic sources only

 

  • complete names of all the authors
  • title of the article
  • title of the journal
  • complete date of the journal (day month and year, if given) for popular journals
  • volume and issue for scholarly journals
  • page numbers
Subscription database
  • database title
  • vendor if known
  • library that provided the database
  • date you accessed the information
  • library URL

Public access Web site

  • date you accessed the information
  • Web site URL

If you don't note all this information when you are doing your research, it will be much more difficult to obtain when you are writing your paper. Making up any of the above information is academic dishonesty.

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