Transcript Citation Examples

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.
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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.