Cite It Right

Online Citation Tools

The following links will take you to online citation makers and other general citation info. Creating citations just got a lot easier!

  • Citation Maker: Click the type of source you have, plug in the required info, and just click Create...very easy!
  • Citation Machine: Click on the formatting style needed (MLA), choose your source type, and continue from there.
  • EasyBib: This tool will search for websites, books, etc to help you create citations.
  • OttoBib: The tool will create citations for you based upon ISBN numbers.
  • Purdue Owl: MLA Formatting & Style Guide: You'll find answers to all your citation questions here! Use the links on the left side of the page to help you navigate to the info you need.

Format Your Works Cited Page

Remember the following when formatting your Works Cited page, slide, etc.

  • Title is Works Cited...not Work Cited. Do not make the font larger or do any other crazy things to it. Center it on the page.
  • List citations in ABC order by the author's last name. If there is no author, go by the first word listed.
  • If a citation is more than one line long, indent all additional lines 1/2 inch.
  • Double space everything. Do not add extra spaces between the title and beginning of citations or between individual citations.
  • Begin the Works Cited page on a new page. The conclusion paragraph must not bleed into the beginning of the Works cited page.

Sample Works Cited Page

Works Cited

Ellsworth, Loretta. "What Harper Lee Taught Me about Writing and the Writing Life."

The Writer Sept. 2010: 8. Student Edition. Web. 3 Jan. 2011.

Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. 40th Anniversary ed. New York: Harper Collins,

1999.

Shields, Charles. I am Scout:The Biography of Harper Lee. New York: Henry Holt,

2008.

"'To Kill a Mockingbird' Turns 50." Sunday Morning. CBS News.com, 11 July 2010.

Web. 1 September 2010.


*borrowed from SSS HS Media Center Web page