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How to Create a Works Cited List In MLA Style Stephanie Suriel

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Quick Guide to starting your MLA style works cited page.

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  • 1. How to Create a Works Cited List In MLA StyleStephanie Suriel

2. *Remember*
When you are looking at books or articles that you might use for your research, make sure you copy the title, the author, the publishing information, and the year or as much information as you can. This will be on your works referenced page.
3. Step 1 Go to http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/
Step 2 Click on Research Help
Step 3 Click on Citation Help
Step 4 Click on Guide to Citing Modern Language Association (MLA) Style
4. 5. 6. 7. 8. *Keep in mind that this is the by hand way of citing. Most people use websites like http://www.easybib.com to do the citing for them.
9. CITING SOURCES: MLA STYLE
Example: When citing a book
BOOKS
Basic format:
Authors last name, first name. Title. Publisher city: Publisher, year.
10. Example
Book Example:
Bedau, Hugo Adam and Paul G. Cassell. Debating the death penalty: Should America
have Capital Punishment?.New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
11. Easy Way to Cite
www.Easybib.com
The Automatic Bibliography & Citation Maker
All you have to do is click on Click here to choose a source
Click on book to show the same example
And fill in all the information
Finally click on create citation
*Always remember to alphabetize everything*
12. 13. 14. 15. Example Of What a Complete Citation Page looks like:
16. Hope this was helpful!!