How to make a Works Consulted Page
NOTE: There has been a revision in the MLA style. Please look carefully at the examples as many of them have changed. For instance the type of medium is now included and the use of url's for Web sites are no longer included.
A Works Consulted page should always be found at the end of any paper if you have used resources outside your own brain! A Works Consulted page provides the information necessary for a reader to locate and be able to read any sources you used in your research.
Basic Rules for Works Consulted pages:
Italicized Titles:
Italicize the names of books, plays, poems published as books, periodicals (newspapers, magazines, and journals), Web sites, online databases, film, television and radio broadcasts, compact discs, audiocassettes, and works of visual art.
Titles in Quotation Marks
Use quotation marks for the titles of articles, essays, stories and poems published within larger works, chapters of books, pages in Web sites, and individual episodes of television and radio broadcasts.
FORMAT:
Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. "Title of the Work". Web log post.Title of Overall Website. Version or Edition. Publisher or
Sponsor of the Cite (if not available, use N.p.). Date of Publication (day, month, year) (if not available, use n.d.)
Medium of Publication (Web). Date of Access (day, month, year). URL (optional but recommended)
EXAMPLE:
Beth. "Oh My Aching Head". Web log post. Judging the Books. Blogger.com. 11 Aug. 2009. Web. 12 Dec. 2009.
http://judgingthebooks.blogspot.com/
FORMAT:
Author’s Last Name
, Author’s First Name. Title of Book. City of Publication: Nameof Publisher, Date of Publication. Type of medium.
EXAMPLE:
Few, Roger. Guide to Endangered Animals. New York: Macmillan,
1993. Print.
BOOK BY TWO or MORE AUTHORS
FORMAT:
Author's Last Name, Author's First Name, and Author's First Name and Last Name. Title of Book. City of
Publication: Date of Publication. Type of medium.
EXAMPLE:
Broer, Lawrence R., and Gloria Holland. Hemingway and Women: Female Critics and the Female Voice.
Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama, 2002. Print
FORMAT:
Editor's Last Name, Editor's First Name, ed. Title of book. City of Publication: Name of
Publisher, Date of Publication. Type of medium.
EXAMPLE:
Feldman, Paula R., ed. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins UP, 1997. Print.
FORMAT:
Author’s last name, Author’s first name
. (if available) Title of Publication.Edition or version (if available). Place of publication: Name of publisher, Date of publication. Medium
EXAMPLE:
The San Diego Zoo Presents; the Animals. Navato, California:
FORMAT:
Name of the Writer. "Title of the message (taken from the subject line)." Description
of the message including the recipient's name. Date of the message. Type of Medium.
Boyle, Anthony T. "Re:Utopia." Message to Daniel J. Cahill. 21 June 1997. E-mail.
FORMAT:
Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Magazine.
Date of Publication: page-page. Title of Database. Name of Database
Publisher. Library Accessed From. Date of Access.
Example:
Mathews, Terry. "Inventing Nairobi". National Geographic. Jan. 2006: 1-1.
Middle Search Plus. Ebscohost. Mariemont Junior High School Library,.
10 Jan. 2006.
CITING GALE REFERENCE MATERIAL
"Addams, Jane." U*X*L Biographies. Online ed. Detroit: UXL, 2003. Student Resource Center - Gold.
Gale. Mariemont Junior High School Library, 21 September 2004
<http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/SRC>.
CITING MAGAZINE AND JOURNAL ARTICLES FROM GALE
Thomas, Vanessa. "Listening to Solar Activity." Astronomy (February 2004): 28.
Student Resource Center - Gold. Gale. Mariemont Junior High School Library,
20 April 2004 <http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/SRC>.
CITING NEWSPAPER ARTICLES FROM GALE
Olin, Dirk. "Ethnomathematics." New York Times 23 February 2003: 23. Student Resource Center - Gold.
Gale. Mariemont Junior High School Library, 27 May 2004
<http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/SRC>.
FORMAT:
Name of person you interviewed. Kind of interview (Personal interview,
Telephone interview). Date of interview.
EXAMPLE:
Pei, I. M. Personal interview. 22 July 2002.
FORMAT:
Date: Page numbers. Type of medium.
EXAMPLE:
Begley, Sharon. "Survival by Handout." National Wildlife Jan. 1997:
52-57. Print.
FORMAT:
Author's last name, Author's first name. "Title of Article or Section in Book." Title of Book. Ed. First then last
name of editor. Edition if any. Volume number used. Place of publication, Year of publication. Pages used.
Type of medium.
EXAMPLE:
Edelman, Ron. "1900s Film and Theater." Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms. Ed. Sara Pendergast et al.
Vol. 1. Farmington, MI, 2002. 33-36. Print.
FORMAT:
Author’s last name, Author’s first name. "Title of Article." Name of Newspaper.
Date : Section page. Type of medium.
EXAMPLE:
McKay, Peter A.. "Stocks
Feel the Dollar's Weight." Wall Street
Journal.
C1+. Print4 M. Dec. 2006 :
FORMAT:
"Title of article".. Name of Reference Database. Title of Publisher, Date of Publication. Type of medium. Date of
access
EXAMPLE:
"Panda Bears." Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2008. Web.
27 Dec. 1999 <
FORMAT:
Artist if available. Title of painting or Photograph. Date.
Original source. Title of Book. by Name of author. City of
Publication: Publisher, Date of publication. Page number. Type of medium.
EXAMPLE:
Asch Building. 1911. United Press International. The Triangle Shirtwaist
Fire. by Corinne J. Naden. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1971. 17. Print.
FORMAT:
Untitled photographs from a book. Citation goes directly under the pasted photograph.
Fig. ?. Description of what the picture depicts, from author's first name and then last name,
Name of the Book (City of Publication: Publisher, Copyright Date) Page Number. Type of medium.
EXAMPLE:
Fig. 5. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory building, from John Doe, The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
(New York: Acme Publishing, Inc., 2003) 56. Print.
FORMAT:
Citing An Online Image or Series of Images (i.e. Internet)
Artist if available. "Description or title of image." Date of image (if no date is given, use n.d.). Title of larger
site. Type of medium. Date of download.
EXAMPLE:
Smith, Greg. "Rhesus Monkeys in the Zoo." n. d. Monkey Picture Gallery.
Web. 3 May 2003.
FORMAT:
Author’s last name, author’s first name (if known). "Title of the Article." Title of
Encyclopedia. Edition (if applicable). Date. Type of medium.
EXAMPLE:
Harper, Edward. "Berlin." Encyclopedia Americana. International ed. 1999. Print.
Author's Name. "Title of Article/Document." Title of Website. Publisher or sponsor of the site,(Use N.p. if none avail.)
Date of pub. or latest update (if none avail. use n.d.). Type of medium. Date of access (day, month, and year).
EXAMPLES:
Quade, Alex. "Elite Team Rescues Troops Behind Enemy Lines. " CNN.com. Cable News Network,
19 Mar, 2007. Web. 15 May 2008.
You must indicate to your readers not only what works you used in writing your paper but also what you took from each source and where in the work you found this material. Usually the author's last name and a page reference are enough to identify the source and the location from which you borrowed the material.
EXAMPLE:
Medieval Europe was a place both of "raids, pillages, slavery, and extortion" and of "traveling merchants, monetary exchange, towns if not cities, and active markets in grain" (Townsend 10).
The paranthetical reference "(Townsend 10)" indicates that the quotations come from page 10 of a work by Townsend. Since you provided the last name, readers will be able to locate the source in your list of works cited at the end of your paper.
Townsend, Robert M. The Medieval Village Economy. Princeton: Princeton UP,1993. Print.