The Works Cited should appear at the end of your essay. It provides readers with the necessary information to locate and read any sources you cite in your text. Each source you use in your essay must appear in your Works Cited; likewise, each source in your Works Cited must have been cited in the text of your essay. Listed below are different examples and formatting for the different types of sources you are likely to encounter. Your Works Cited should look similar to those listed below, which is why the green and red error lines have been left in. This is how the work cited will appear when typed in a word document. 

BASIC FORMS FOR PRINT SOURCES

Books (includes brochures and pamphlets):

 

Two books by the same author:

Book with two or more authors:

Anthology or collection:

Work within an anthology:

Article in a scholarly journal with continuous pagination:

Article in a scholarly journal that pages each issue separately:

Newspaper articles:

Reviews:

Sacred Texts:

Dictionary Entry:

 

 

BASIC FORMS FOR ONLINE SOURCES

Web sites: