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Proper heading for MLA format work. Student Name (First Last) Teacher Name (Mr./Ms. Last) Class (English 8) Date (day Month year)
Additional Formatting for Works Cited list. It is always:
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Below is the general format for any citation, if you don’t see an example here that fits your source, use this order:
Author (Last, First). Title. Title of container (either book, newspaper,website), Version (edition or vol #), Publisher, Publication Date, Location (page # or URL). Date of Access (if electronic).
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First get everything alphabetized, single-spaced, Times New Roman, size 12:
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Next change spacing:
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Last - Center Justify your Works Cited title and add italics where needed:
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Author (Lastname, Firstname). Title of Book (in Italics). Book Publisher, Year of Publication.
Austen, Jane. Persuasion. Penguin Books, 2003.
Author (Lastname, Firstname). "Title of Article (in Quotes)." Title of Source (in Italics). Publication Date, Database Name (in Italics), Location (URL or Permalink). Date of Access.
Fagan, Abigail. "Weapons of Mass Persuasion." Psychology Today. Sept.-Oct. 2017. Gale In Context: Middle School, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A502507085/MSIC?u=char54065&sid=bookmark-MSIC&xid=2eb4be1a. Accessed 12 Jan. 2023.
Author (Lastname, Firstname). "Title of Article (in Quotes)." Name of Website (in Italics), Date of Publication (if available), URL. Date of Access.
Lyall, Sarah. “Why Is It So Hard to Adapt Austen?” The New York Times, 20 July 2022,
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/20/movies/persuasion-netflix-dakota-johnson.html Accessed 12 Jan. 2023.
Creator (Lastname, Firstname). “Title of work (in Quotes).” Date of creation. Location of work (URL if viewed online). Date of Access (if viewed online).
Millner, William Edward. The Orange Seller. https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-orange-seller-william-edward-millner.html. Accessed 12 Jan. 2023.
**If you have already cited a source for written information, you do not have to re-cite it if you use images from that same source.
Creator (Lastname, Firstname)."Title of video (in Quotes)." YouTube, uploaded by (if different than author), Date Created, URL.
Ocampo, Patrick. “Persuasive Speech.” YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CjJeQAv29A.
If you have any research or citation questions, please email me! If you email me late in the evening, I will reply to you the next morning. You can also stop by my desk before school.
My email is tamara.alito@charlottelatin.org
