AP LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION/ENGLISH III 2015-16
MS. LEAPHART
WORKS CITED SHEET INSTRUCTIONS
1) First “Insert” your last name and page number in the upper right hand corner of the page.
2) Then type “Works Cited” centered at the top of your page.
3) Then begin typing your works cited entries in alphabetical order (according to the first letter
of the author’s last name.
4) Finally, select all of your entries, and go to Page Layout, Paragraph, Special and choose
Hanging Indent. OR if you’re using google docs, select all of your entries, then drag the blue
square and triangle right along the ruler until you hit the half inch mark. Then drag just the
blue square back to the zero mark.
Using the following information, make a Works Cited page for your essay.
Format for a short work from a Website:
Author’s Last Name, Authors First Name. “Title of Short Work.” Title of Site. Sponsor of site, Date of
publication or last update. Medium (Print or Web). Date of Access.
Format for an article from a database:
Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. “Title of Article.” Title of Magazine, Journal or Newspaper
Volume #.Issue # (Date): Pages. Title of Database. Medium (Print or Web). Your Date of Access
(Written Day Month Year: 3 Dec. 2014).
Basic format for a book:
Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Date. Medium
(Print or Web).
Format for an Encyclopedia or dictionary entry:
Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. “Title of Entry.” Title of Encyclopedia/Dictionary: Edition. Date.
Medium (Print or Web).
*More Works Cited help at the Purdue Online Writing Lab
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/