The following
sections provide
| MLA BIBLIOGRAPHY FORMATTING RULES |
An MLA bibliography
(also called "works cited" or "literature cited") is
formatted as follows:
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Put
at the end of the paper. |
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Start
it on its own page. |
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Put
the page number in the upper right-hand corner, half an inch from
the top and flush with the right margin. |
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Center
the title an inch from the top of the page. |
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Title
the page one of the following: Works Cited, Bibliography, Literature
Cited, etc. See the handbook for other title suggestions and the guidelines
for each. |
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List
only the items used. If needed, see the MLA handbook for rules about
listing works you read, but did not use. |
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List
entries alphabetically based on the first letter of the first element.
(e.g. first author's last name or by first word in the title -- ignoring
any initial A, An, and The) |
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Begin
the first line of each entry at the left margin, and indent subsequent
lines one-half inch or five spaces if using a typewriter. (This type
of indentation is called a hanging indent.) |
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Consult
the MLA handbook (Call Number PE1478.M57) for more detailed rules,
as well as detailed rules for punctuation, abbreviations, and capitalization. |
The following
bibliography uses proper MLA formatting and incorporates many of the examples
used on the MLA Citation Elements &
Examples page.
Works
Cited
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Altick,
Richard D., and Andrea A. Lunsford.  Preface
to Critical Reading. 6th ed. New York: Holt, 1984.
Bambara, Toni. The Salt Eaters. New York: Random
House, 1980.
Baum, Rosalie Murphy. "Alcoholism
and Family Abuse in Maggie and The Bluest Eye."
Mosaic 19.3 (1986): 91-105.
Brock, Dan W. "The Value of Prolonging Human Life." Philosophical
Studies 50 (1986): 401-26.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Oxford Sherlock Holmes. Ed.
Owen Dudley Edwards, 9 vols. New York: Oxford UP, 1993.
Fuerbringer, Jonathan. "Budgetary Rhythms." New
York Times" 20 Mar. 1987, late ed.: A8.
Gong, Victor, and Norman Rudnick, eds. AIDS:
Facts and Issues. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1986.
Graham, Don. "When Myths Collide." Texas
Monthly Jan. 1986: 42+.
Greeley, Andrew. "Today's Morality Play: The Sitcom." New
York Times 17 May 1987, late ed., sec. 2: 1+.
A Guide to Our Federal Lands. Washington: Natl.
Geographic Soc., 1984.
Hyde, Margaret O., and Elizabeth Held Forsyth. Suicide:
The Hidden Epidemic. Rev. ed. New York: Watts, 1986.
Jackson, Andrea. "Applying
TQM Principles to the Finance Department: The City of Auburn Experience."
Government
Finance Review Feb. 1999: 17-21.
Lambropoulos, Vassilis, and David Neal Miller, eds.
Twentieth Century Literary Theory: An Introduction Anthology.
Albany: State
U of New York P, 1987.
Liebert, Herman W. "Reflections on Samuel Johnson." Journal
of English and German Philology 47 (1948): 84-88. Rpt. in Samuel
Johnson: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed.
Donald J. Greene. Twentieth Century Views. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice,
1965. 15-21.
Pangle, Thomas L. Patriotism, American Style." National
Review 29 Nov. 1985: 30-34.
Parker, Hershel. Melville: A Biography. Vol. 1. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins UP, 1996.
Quirk, Randolph, et al. A
Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman,
1985.
Rubinstein, Arye. "Children
with AIDS and the Public Risk." AIDS: Facts and Issues.
Ed. Victor Gong and Norman Rudnick. New
Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1986. 99-103.
Schlesinger, Arthur M., gen. ed. History
of U.S. Political Parties. 4 vols. New York: Chelsea,
1973.
Stafford, Peter, comp. and ed. Interference:
The Story of Czechoslovakia in the Words of Its Writers. Cheltenham:
New Clarion, 1992.
Thomas, Lewis. "Computers." The
Penguin Book of Contemporary American Essays. Ed. Maureen Howard.
New
York: Penguin, 1985. 153-55.
Tucker, Cynthia. "Education
Stays on Top of Southerners' Agenda." Atlanta Constitution
21 Mar. 1987: 19A.
Westersdorf, Karl P. "Hamlet's
Encounter with the Pirates." Shakespeare Quarterly 34
(1983): 434-40.
Winks, Robin W. "The
Sinister Oriental Thriller: Fiction and the Asian Scene." Journal
of Popular Culture 19.2 (1985): 49-61.
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