Juniors: here’s how you write a works cited page

Tuesday, June 15, 2010
By Janet Calvo
In the years ahead of feature (Juniors), you will write a lot of research essays in which you will need to list your sources. This is called a “Works Cited” page. There is a special way to write this page. It is usually located at the end of the research report. It is better to use a lot of resources for your research report, so that the article doesn’t sound like a summary.

First make sure you write down the source where you got your information. If your information came from a book, magazine, and website etc.

According to http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/06/ when you are going to cite your page for a book you would make sure to write down author name(s), book title, publication date, publisher, and place of publication.  
Example:
Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin, 1987. Print.

According to http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/onlineref/cited.html for a magazine you have to have the title of the article, name of magazine, number of pages of article. If you don’t have all the information to write the works cited because its not provided don’t worry; write whats provided.
Example:
Author’s last name, first name. “Title of article”. Name of home website. Date listed.                Date you accessed the article.
<website you used in angled brackets> 24 July 2001. 9 Nov. 2001 <http://www.csustan.edu/English/ reuben/pal/chap10/welty.html>.

This is how it would look like:

Reuben, Paul P.  “Chapter 10: Late Twentieth Century–Eudora Welty.”  Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide.

Hope that this article helps you to write the works cited page in your junior year.

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