Hello readers ! Myself Latta Baraiya and I'm a student of English Department, mkbu. This task is assigned by Vaidehi ma'am. This blog is about how we can make list of work that we have cited from different sources.
Whenever you incorporate outside sources into your own writing, you must provide both in-text citations (within the body of the paper) and full citations (in the works cited page). The in-text citations point your reader toward the full citations in the works cited page(Jennifer).
MLA style provides a flexible, modular format for recording key features of works cited or consulted in the preparation of your research paper. This chapter describes several sequences of elements that can be combined to form entries in lists of works. In building an entry, you should know which elements to look for in the source. Not all elements will be present in a given source. Moreover, since MLA style is flexible about the inclusion of some information and even about the ordering of the elements, you should understand how your choice relates to your research project(MLA handbook, 2009).
Although the list of works cited appears at the end of your paper, you need to draft the section in advance, so that you will know what information to give in parenthetical references as you write.
Placement of the List of Works Cited
The list of works cited appears at the end of the paper. Begin the list on a new page and number each page, continuing the page numbers of the text. For example, if the text of your research paper ends on page 10, the works-cited list begins on page 11.
The page number appears in the upper right-hand corner, half an inch from the top and flush with the right margin.
Author. “Title of the Source.” Title of the Container, Other contributors, Version, Number, Publisher, Publication date, Location.
See this,
Center the title, Works Cited, an inch from the top of the page. Double-space between the title and the first entry. Begin each entry flush with the left margin; if an entry runs more than one line, indent the subsequent line or lines one-half inch from the left margin. This format is sometimes called hanging indention, and you can set your word processor to create it automatically for a group of paragraphs. Hanging indention makes alphabetical lists easier to use. Double-space the entire list, both between and within entries(MLA handbook, 2009).
Arrangement of Entries
Entries in a works-cited list are arranged in alphabetical order, which helps the reader to find the entry corresponding to a citation in the text. In general, alphabetize entries in the list of works cited by the author's last name, using the letter-by-letter system. In this system, the order of names is determined by the letters before the commas that separate last names and first names. Spaces and other punctuation marks are ignored. The letters following the commas are considered only when two or more last names are identical(MLA handbook, 2009). Like this,
Descartes, Rene
De Sica, Vittorio
MacDonald, George
McCullers, Carson
Morris, Robert
Morris, William
Morrison, Toni
Saint-Exuperv, Antoine de
St. Denis, Ruth
If two or more entries citing co authors begin with the same name, alphabetize by the last names of the second authors listed.
Scholes, Robert, and Robert Kellogg
Scholes, Robert, Carl H. Klaus, and Michael Silverman
Scholes, Robert, and Eric S. Rabkin
Other kinds of bibliographies may be arranged differently. An annotated list, a list of works consulted, or a list of selected readings for a historical study, for example, may be organized chronologically by publication date. Some bibliographies are divided into sections and the items alphabetized in each section. A list may be broken down into primary and secondary sources or into different research media or genres (books, articles, films). Alternatively, it may be arranged by subject matter, by period, or by area(MLA handbook, 2009).
Two or More Works by the Same Author
To cite two or more works by the same author, give the llame in the first entry only. Thereafter, in place of the name, type three hyphens, followed by a period and the title. The three hyphens stand for exactly the same name as in the preceding entry. If the person named edited, translated, or compiled the work, place a comma (not a period) after the three hyphens, and write the appropriate abbreviation (ed., trans., or comp.) before giving the title. Ifthe same person served as, say, the editor of two or more works listed consecutively, the abbreviation ed. must be repeated with each entry. This sort of label does not affect the order in which entries appear; works listed under the same name are alphabetized by title(MLA handbook, 2009). Like this,
Borroff, Marie. Language and the Poet: Verbal Artistry in Frost, Stevens, and Moore. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1979. Print.
---, trans. Pearl. New York: Norton, 1977. Print.
---. "Sound Symbolism as Drama in the Poetry of Robert Frost." PMLA
107.1 (1992): 131-44. JSTOR. Web. 13 May 2008.
---, ed. Wallace Stevens: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs:
Prentice, 1963. Print.
Two or More Works by the Same Authors
If you have two or more works by the same author, alphabetize your list by the author’s last name, and then the title of the book(Adrienne,2020). To cite two or more works by the same authors, give the names in the first entry only. Thereafter, in place of the names, type three hyphens, followed by a period and the title. The three hyphens stand for exactly the same names, in the same order, as in the preceding entry. Authors' names whose order in the source work is different from that of the previously listed names should be listed in the same order as in the work and alphabetized appropriately(MLA handbook, 2009).
Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar, eds. The Female Imagination and the Modernist Aesthetic. New York: Gordon, 1986. Print.
---. "Sexual linguistics: Gender, Language, Sexuality." New Literary History 16.3 (1985): 515-43. JSTOR. Web. 26 June 2007.
In this way you can cite if two or three works are by the same author.
Cross-References
To avoid unnecessary repetition in citing two or more works from the same collection, you may create a complete entry for the collection and cross-reference individual pieces to the entry. In a cross-reference, state the author and the title of the piece, the last name of the editor or editors of the collection, and the inclusive page or reference numbers. If the piece is a translation, add the name of the translator after the title, unless one person translated the entire collection (MLA handbook, 2009).See this,
Agee, James. "Knoxville: Summer of 191 5." Oates and Atwan 171-75.
Atwan, Robert. Foreword. Oates and Atwan x-xvi.
Kingston, Maxine Hong. "No Name Woman." Oates and Atwan 383-94.
Oates, Joyce Carol, and Robert Atwan, eds. The Best American Essays of the Century. Boston: Houghton, 2000. Print.
Rodriguez, Richard. "Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood." Oates and Atwan 447-66.
References
Mathewson, Adrienne. “Arranging Numbers in Works Cited List.” Bibliography.com, 17 Sept. 2020, https://www.bibliography.com/mla/arranging-numbers-in-works-cited-list/.
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, New York, 2009, https://eclass.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/ISLL125/MLA+Handbook+for+Writers+of+Research+Papers.pdf.
Yirinec, Jennifer. “Formatting the Works Cited Page (MLA).” Formatting the Works Cited Page (MLA) | English Literature I, University of South Florida, https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-britlit1/chapter/formatting-the-works-cited-page-mla/.
