THE WORKS CITED PAGE
General: You are required to include a Works Cited page listing at least seven sources quoted/referenced in your essay. If you do not actually use the source in your essay, you cannot list it in the Works Cited.
The Works Cited page is the last page of your assignment. Title it: “Works Cited”; list the works cited in alphabetical order. Stay in 12pt Times New Roman font, double-spaced. Sometimes, the indention can be tricky while formatting the citation. If so, backspace, TAB.
To see a full Works Cited sample page, visit Purdue OWL MLA or McGraw-Hill Part IV, Ch. 23
Anthology*
Lahiri, Jhumpa. "Sexy." The Norton Anthology American Literature. Eds. Nina Baym and
Robert S. Levine. Vol. E: Literature Since 1945. 8th ed. New York: W.W. Norton &
Company, 2012. 1223-1239. Print. 3 vols.
Database
Barrera, Rebeca María. “A Case for Bilingual Education.” Scholastic Parent and Child Nov.
Dec. 2004: 72-73. Academic Search Premier . Web. 1 Feb. 2009.
Article in an online newspaper or magazine
Smith, Andrew D. “Poll: More than 70% of US Workers Use Internet on the Job.”
Dallasnews.com
. Dallas Morning News, 25 Sept. 2008. Web. 29 Oct. 2009.
Webpage
“Controlled Substance Schedules.” deadiversion.usdoj.gov
. U.S. Department of Justice and
Drug Enforcement Administration, n.d. Web. 2 Nov. 2015.
YouTube
Shimabukuro, Jake. "Ukulele Weeps by Jake Shimabukuro." Online video clip.
YouTube . YouTube, 22 Apr. 2006. Web. 9 Sept. 2010.
Personal Interview
Smith, Jane. Personal interview. 19 May 2014.

INTERNAL CITATION
1.
Signal Phrase : Identify your author, organization, or work in your writing. For instance: a.
… Hurston exudes confidence throughout the text. An explicit example includes:
“How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me”
(541). Here, she provides the reader with … i.
The signal phrase is Hurston
2.
Parenthetical: If you opt to not “signal phrase,” you still need to clearly identify where a quote, idea, or information comes from. Sometimes, “signal phrasing” can feel intrusive.
So, one can use the parenthetical citation. For instance: a.
One can find a similar confidence in tone and worldview. For instance, “How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me” (Hurston 541) to “They’ll see how beautiful I am” (Hughes 872). In these two moments, one from “How … i.
The parenthetical is (Hurston 541) and (Hughes 872).
3.
POETRY (copy and example from Purdue OWL) : When short (fewer than three lines of verse) quotations from poetry, mark breaks in short quotations of verse with a slash,
( / ), at the end of each line of verse (a space should precede and follow the slash). a.
Cullen concludes, "Of all the things that happened there / That's all I remember"
(11-12). i.
Note also the (11-12)— when quoting poetry, use the line number(s) of the poem.