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English Paper Research Guide: MLA Examples

MLA Examples

Citation Guidelines --For Citing Facts and Information

When gathering facts and information for any paper, project, or report, you must keep track of the reference sources you use in order to give credit to the original owner of the ideas. For each information source, you will create a citation. At the end of each project, you should make one list of all these citations that is called a Works Cited.

For English, you will use the Modern Language Association (MLA 8) Style Guide.

Here are examples by type of reference source:

 

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Steps for Creating a Final Works Cited

Follow these basic rules to create your final Works Cited page:

  1. Center the title at the top of a new page at the end of your paper: Works Cited
  2. Begin the first line of each citation at the left margin
  3. Indent every line after the first line 
  4. Alphabetize the list by the first word of the entry, excluding the words a, an, and the
  5. Use Times New Roman, size 12 font
  6. Double space all citations, but do not skip spaces between entries

Here are the complete directions for a MLA Works Cited Page.

Works Cited Sample