Works Cited Format

General Formatting Guidelines:

• Top of the last page of your paper (own page)

Tip: Create a page break to ensure that your Works Cited starts at the top of the last page in the correct spot.

• Use the same Font Type & Size, Line spacing, Margins, Alignment, page number header, etc. as the rest of the paper

• Title the page Works Cited (used centered alignment. Do not underline, italicize, or place the title in quotation marks)

• Alphabetize your works letter by letter using whatever appears first in the Works Cited entry

• Abbreviate months in your Works Cited entries (use first three letters followed by a period) except for May, June, and July.

• Start each entry flush with the left-hand margin. Additional lines for an entry require the use of a hanging indent.

Alphabetizing Tips:

• • If your Works Cited includes multiple works by authors with the same last name, continue alphabetizing letter by letter using the first name

  • If your Works Cited includes multiple works by the same author

    • • give the author’s name in the first entry only. Thereafter, in place of the name, type three hyphens. The three hyphens are followed by a period and entry continues as normal.

      • determine the order of this author's multiple works by alphabetizing letter by letter using the title

  • If the first item on your Works Cited list is a numeral, alphabetize the title as if the numeral was spelled out (1914 becomes Nineteen Fourteen)

  • For any works that start with a title ignore any initial A, An, or The and alphabetize letter by letter using the next word

Note: If multiple works start with the same word(s) continue alphabetizing letter by letter until an order can be established