A new page must be started for the "works cited" section, which follows the same guidelines as the paper. The page, titled Works Cited, has one-inch margins and a header including the author's last name and manuscript page number. All citations are double-spaced and without any line spaces between each entry. The first line of the citation is not indented, but the second and proceeding lines are indented five spaces. This is called a hanging indentation.
In the MLA style guide, each word in the title of a book, journal or article is capitalized, except for articles, such as "a" and "the," short prepositions, like "in" and "on" and conjunctions, such as "but" or "and," except if that word is the first after a colon. For example: "A Tale of Two Cities," "A Study in Rhyme" and "The Red Book Mystery: A Thriller from the 1960s." All titles of sizable literature works, such as books and magazines, should be italicized or underlined. All shorter pieces, such as poems and stories, should be in quotation marks.
Each entry is listed alphabetically by the name of the author or, if a collection, by editor. The order of the names is last name, first name and middle initial or name, such as "Allegro, John H." Formal titles, including "Mr." and "Dr.," or degrees, such as "Ph.D," are not used. Yet, suffixes like "Jr." are noted; for example, "Roberts, Mark Elliott, Sr."
When an author is not given, the title of the work is used for alphabetization purposes.
When listing a book, follow the last name and first name author rule, then the book's title (in italics or underlined), where it was published, the name of the publisher and the publication year. For instance:
LeBlanc, Michael James. The Boys in the Class. Boston: Brown & Co., 2005.
When there is more than one author, the second and following names are written as first name and then last name. For instance:
LeBlanc, Michael James, and Susan S. Scott. The Boys in the Class. Boston: Brown & Co., 2005.
Follow a somewhat similar approach for articles in publications. List the name, then the article in quotes, followed by the publication name in italics or underlined and finally the date with the month abbreviated and page numbers. For example:
Behrman, Diana. "A Special Day." Good Housekeeping. Mar. 2006: 143-8.
The newest form of citations are electronic. It is important to include as much information as possible. In many cases, however, some of the following is not available: author or editor; database name and project, article or book title; number of the revision or post; publisher name; the date the material was accessed and the address. For example:
Stevens, Carl. "Why a Style Guide is Needed." Literature Department. 10 April 2007. Johns Hopkins University. 19 May 2008 <http://Johnhopkins45930.edu/>.