MLA Heading and In text Citations/ Work Cited Page

HW: Please complete a TYPED draft of your work for tomorrow. This should include the intro, body, and conclusion. This will be worth 20 points. It's an easy grade if you have all  your work completed. Fair warning: anything less than ALL will earn you no more than a 10/20.



Name
Class
Teacher
Date

Ann I. Moll
English
Mr. Fancymanpeters
24 March 2014



In text citations: After you quote a text, you need to give a parenthetical reference. Usually, this would include the author's name and the page number where the text usually appears: (Collier 45).

Note: no commas, no mention of the word "page," and the punctuation mark comes after the closed parenthesis.



"Oh, I was scared. The war had finally come to Redding, and it was terrible" (Collier 51).

Work cited page: The page that lists the sources you used. In this case, you used one source.


Work Cited page: (for novels)

Author's name. Title of the Book. Publication information.

Author's name:  Reverse the author's name for alphabetizing purposes: Franke Damon= Damon, Franke.

Title of Book: State the full title of the book, capitalizing the first letter of "important" words (leave the first letter of words like "the", "a", "an", "of" and "and" in lower case, unless it is the first word of the title ). Place a period after the entire title.

Publication information: In general, give the city of publication, the publisher's name, the year of publication, and the form (if it's from a book, the form is "print"). All this information is usually found in the first couple of pages, most likely the copyright page--you know, that page with all the small print.

Use a colon between the city of publication and the publisher (this is usually a company or office).

Place a comma between the publisher and the date of publication, and a period after the date. Add the form, followed by a period.

Example:

Hinton, S.E. The Outsiders. New York: Penguin Group, 1967. Print.