MLA citation style

Works cited - General guidelines

The alphabetical list of works cited that appears at the end of your paper contains more information about all of the sources you've cited, allowing readers to refer to them, as needed. The main characteristics are:

• The list of Works Cited must be on a new page at the end of your text
• Entries are arranged alphabetically by the author's last name or by the title if there is no author
• Titles of books are italicized and titles of articles are placed in quotation marks. All important words should be capitalized
• Entries are double-spaced (for the purposes of this page, single-spacing is used)
• For online sources, date of access is an optional element. However, it can be helpful to include this information, especially if the source you are using does not have a date of publication