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MLA Easy Formatting Style Writing and Grammar Guide
Put your list of works cited on a separate page at the end of your paper.
The title Works Cited should be centered at the top; do NOT italicize, put in BOLD or use quotation marks.
A Book
Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date.
Sackett, Lou, and David Haynes. American Regional Cuisines: Food Culture and Cooking. Pearson, 2012.
An Article in a Scholarly Journal from an Online Database
Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal, Volume, Issue Number, Year, pages. Name of Database, doi or url. Accessed date.
Driver, Elizabeth. "Cookbooks as Primary Sources for Writing History: A Bibliographer's View." Food, Culture & Society, vol. 12, no. 3, 2009, pp. 257-274. General OneFile, doi:10.2752/175174409X431987. Accessed 3 May 2016.
Note: All sources that are cited in the body of the paper must also appear in the works cited list at the end of the paper.
Parenthetical Citation: Put a reference to the work cited in parentheses after a quote or paraphrase. The in-text citation appears at the end of the sentence and before the period.
Author-page style: put the author's last name and the page number(s) in the text and a complete reference on your Works Cited page. The author's name may be in the sentence or in parentheses; the page number(s) must be in the parentheses.
Basic Format: “Quote” or paraphrase (Author’s last name page #).
Example: “Cookbooks are tangible, printed records that illuminate many aspects of the past; however, to interpret accurately what they tell us about their time, I believe that it is important to keep the books themselves at the center of the story" (Driver 258).
Formatting Guide
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