MLA Bibliographies

Creating a bibliography I The bibliography appears at the

end of the paper Begin the list on a new page and

number each page, continuing the page numbers of the text

Center the title ”Works cited” an inch frm the top of the page, double-space between the title and the first entry

Creating a bibliography II Begin each entry flush with the left

margin If an entry runs more than one line,

indent the subsequent line/lines one-half inch (or five spaces) from the left margin

Double-space the entire list, both between and within entries

Continue the list on as many pages as necessary

Creating a bibliography III In general, alphabetize entries in the list of

works cited by the author’s name, using the letter-by-letter system

In this system, the alphabetical order of names is determined by the letters before the comma that separate last names and first names

Spaces and other punctuation marks are ignored

The letters after the commas are considered only when two or more names are identical

Creating a bibliography IV

If the author’s name is unknown, alphabetize by the title, ignoringany initial A, An, og The

Ex: ”An Encyclopedia of the Latin-

American Novel” would be alphabetized under e rather than a

A book by a single author

Fukuyama, Francis. Our Posthuman Future: Consequenses of the Biotechnology Revolution. New York: Farrar, 2002.

An anthology/compilation

Lopate, Phillip, ed. The art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present. New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1994.

Two/more books by the same author

Boroff, Marie. Language and the Past: Verbal Artistry in Frost, Stevens, and Moore. Chicago: U of Chicago, 1979.

---, ed. Wallance Stevens: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewod Cliffs: Prentice, 1963.

A book by two/more authors

Eggins, Suzanne, and Diana Slade. Analyz-ing Casual Conversation. London: Cassell, 1997.

Marquart, James W., Sheldon Oslon, and Joseph Oleander, eds. No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian Fiction. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1983.

A book by a corporate author

American Medical Association. The American Medical Association Encyclopedia of Medicine. Ed. Charles B. Clayman. New York: McGraw, 1992.

A work in an anthology

Allende, Isabel. ”Toad’s Mouth.” Trans. Margaret Sayers Peden. A Hammock beneath the Mangoes: Stories from Latin America. Ed. Thomas Colchie. New York: Plume, 1992. 83-88.

An aticle in a reference book

”Mandarin.” The Encyclopedia Americana. 1994 ed.

Mohanty, Jitendra M. ”Indian Philosophy.” The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropeaedia. 15th ed. 1987.

A multivolume work

Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Oxford Shrelock Holmes. Ed. Owen Dudley Edwards. Vol. 8. New York: Oxford UP, 1993.

A government publication

Great Britain. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food. Dept. of the Environment, Transport, and the Regions. Our Countryside, the Future: A Fair Deal for rural England. London: HMSO, 2000.

United States. Cong. Joint Committe on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack. Hearings. 79th Cong., 1st and 2nd sess. Washington: GPO, 1946.

The published proceedings of a conference

Freed, Barbara F., ed. Foreign Language Acquisition Research and the Classroom. Proc. Of Consortium for Lang. Teaching and Learning Conf., Oct. 1989, U of Pennsylvania. Lexington: Heath, 1991.

An article in a schoolarly journal

McNeilly, Kevin. ”Home Economics.” Canadian Literature 166 (2000): 5-16.

An article in a newspaper

Chang, Kenneth. ”The Melting of Antarctica.” New York Times 2 Apr. 2002 F1+

An article in a magazine

Kates, Robert W. ”Population and Consumption: What We Know, What We Need to Know.” Environment Apr. 2000: 10-19.

Review

Rev. of Anthology of Danish Literature, ed. F.J. Jansen and P.M. Mitchell. Times Literary Supplement 7 July 1972: 785.

A document from an internet site

Ross, Don. ”City Profile: San Fransisco.” CNN.com. 2002.14 May 2002 <http://www.cnn.com/travel/city/SanFransisco/intro.html>

An article in an online periodical

Sohmer, Steve. ”12 June 1599: Opening Day at Shakespeare’s Globe.” Early Modern Literary Studies 3 (1991). 26 June 2002. <http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/03-1/sohmjuli.html>

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