A Works Cited page should always be found at the end of any paper if you have used resources outside your own brain! A Works Cited page provides the information necessary for a reader to locate and be able to read any sources you refer to in your paper. Each source you quote from or use must appear in the Works Cited list; in the same way, each entry in the Works Cited list must be named in your text.

Basic Rules for Works Cited pages: (pp. 142-147)

1. Author’s names are inverted (last name first followed by a comma: Brown, Ronald.
2. If a work has more than one author, invert only the first author’s name, follow it with a comma, then continue listing the rest of the authors: Brown, Ronald, and Linda Smith.
3. Alphabetize your sources by the authors’ last names. If no author is given for a particular work, alphabetize by the title of the work. See sample Works Cited page at this web link.
4. The first line of each entry in your list should be flush left. Following lines should be indented one-half inch (or 5 spaces). This is known as a "hanging indent".
5. All references should be double-spaced.

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