SAMPLE LIST OF WORKS CITED CITATION: MLA FORM

SAMPLE LIST OF WORKS CITED CITATIONS: MLA FORMAT

The following are samples of single citations.
A Works Cited List will be organized alphabetically by the first words in the citations.
The entire Works Cited List should be double-spaced.

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Preliminary Bibliography Checklist Research Paper Checklist

Citing Sources MLA STYLE: PPT

1. Work in an anthology:

Lorde, Audre. "Recreation." Norton Introduction to Poetry. Ed. J. Paul Hunter. 2nd ed. New

York: Norton,1981. 20-21.

Donne, John. "The Ecstasy." Norton Anthology of English Literature. Eds. M.H. Abrams et

al. 4th ed. 2 vols. New York: Norton, 1979. 1: 1070-72.

2.(Excerpted) article in multi-volume work:

Larkin, Joan. "Frontiers of Language: Three Poets." 1974. Exc. in "Audre Lord."

Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 18. Ed. Sharon R. Gunton. Detroit: Gale

Research, 1982. 307-08.

[The Gale series continue to publish new volumes every year; they are non-finite series.]

"Lorde, Audre: Introduction." Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 18. Ed. Sharon R.

Gunton. Detroit: Gale Research, 1982. 304-06.

Van, Thomas A. "Dante." Critical Survey of Poetry: Foreign Language Series. Ed. Frank N.

Magill. Vol. 1. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1984. 390-417. 5 vols.

[Authors in Salem Press books are always listed at the end of the articles. Salem publishes finite series, so you need to include the number of volumes in the series at the end of the citation. Any paper or Works Cited list citing Frank N. Magill as an author will automatically lose 10 points!]

"Donne, John." Encyclopedia Americana. 1985 ed.

Milgate, Wesley. "John Donne." Encyclopedia Britannica: Macropedia. 1974.

3. Critical article in an anthology:

Donaldson, E.T. "Chaucer the Pilgrim." 1954. Rpt. in Chaucer Criticism: The Canterbury

Tales. Eds. Richard Schoeck and Jerome Taylor. 1960. Rpt. Notre Dame IN: U of

Notre Dame P, 1969. 1-13.

Towns, Saundra. "Audre Lord." Contemporary Poets. Eds. James Vinson and D.L.

Kirkpatrick. New York: St. Martins Press, 1985. 513-14.

4. Theatrical programs:

Program notes. Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Asolo State Theatre. Sarasota, Fl. 6

March 1986: 14.

5. Article in a journal:

Dean, James. "Dismantling the Canterbury Book." PMLA 100 (1985): 746-62.

6. Lyrics from a recording (LP. for record, Cass.for cassette, CD. for compact disc):
LP. for record, Cass.for cassette, CD. for compact disc):

Andersen, Eric. Lyrics. "Violets of Dawn." Music by Eric Andersen. Bout Changes and

Things. LP. Elektra. 1966.

7. Personal interview:

Hopkins, Richard. Artistic Director of Florida Studio Theatre, Sarasota, FL.

Telephone (or Personal) Interview. 10 July 2001.

8. Play review:

Handelman, Jay. Rev. of Art by Yasmina Reza. Asolo Theatre Festival, Sarasota, FL.

Sarasota Herald Tribune. 30 May 2001: B3.

9. Book review:

Harris, Robert R. "Whole Lotta Sellin' Goin' On." Rev. of Woodstock: The Oral History by

Joel Makower. New York Times Book Review. 12 July 1989: 7.

10. Video or DVD:

Burton, Tim, Director. Big Fish. DVD. Screenplay by John August. Based on a novel by Daniel

Wallace. Starring Albert Finney and Ewan MacGregor. Columbia Pictures. 2003.

Born Musicians: Traditional Music from Gambia. Videocassette. Repercussions: A

Celebration of African-American Music. Directed by Geoffrey Haydon and Dennis

Marks. 7 programs. A Third Eye Production for RM Arts and Channel Four. 1984.

Program 1.

11. Internet Site:

Lu Yanguang. "Madame Li." 1997. Asia Pac: 100 Celebrated Chinese Women. Trans. Kate

Foster. 10 Feb. 2000 < http://www.span.com.au/100women/18.html > .

Jones, Jane Anderson. "An Introduction to Hour of the Star." Contemporary Literature Online!

Summer 2000. 20 June 2000.

<http://www.mcc.cc.fl.us/Faculty/Jonesj/LIT2090/HouroftheStar.html>

[The title of the webpage is quoted; the title of the website is underlined or italicized. The first date in the citation is the date the information was put on the Web. The second date is the date the information was accessed.]

12. Photograph or artwork (not clip-art) from Internet Site:

Cezanne, Paul. Bathers. ca.1890-91. "Cezanne, Paul: Bathers." 19 Sep. 2002. WebMuseum,

Paris. Ed. Nicolas Pioch. 22 Oct. 2002

<http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cezanne/bath/ >.

Virginia Woolf: photograph. The Probert Encyclopedia People and Peoples: V. 20 Oct. 2002

< http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/CG.HTM >.

William Shakespeare: portrait. The First Folio. "Exhibition Galleries in the British Library at St.

Pancras." 2001. The British Library. 20 Oct. 2002

< http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/permanent.html >.

13. CD-ROM Database:

Russo, Michelle Cash."Recovering from Bibliographic Instruction Blahs" RQ:Reference

Quarterly 32. 178-83. Infotrac: Magazine Index Plus. CD-ROM. Information Access.

Dec. 1993.

14. Online Database:

Goodman, Jenny. "Politics and the personal lyric in the poetry of Joy Harjo and C.D. Wright."

MELUS 19. 2 (Summer 94). 35-57. Ebsco: Academic Search Premiere.

Eder, Richard, "The Greatest Woman Poet Since Sappho." Los Angeles Times Book Review

18 Mar. 1990. 3+. Galenet: Literature Resource Center.

Platizky, Roger. "Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado.'" The Explicator 57. 4 (Summer 1999). 206-8.

First Search: Wilson Select.

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