Preparing Your Works Cited List

This list, placed at the end of your essay, should include all the sources you quoted, paraphrased, or summarized. It provides the information necessary for a reader to locate any sources you cite. Each source you cite in your essay must appear in your Works Cited List.

General Rules

• Arrange your sources in alphabetical order by the last name of the author.
• List the author by last name, follow it with a comma, and then first name.
• If a source has more than one author, invert only the first author’s name, then continue listing other authors.
• If a source has no author, put it in the list by title, but leave out A, The, or An.
• Indent second and third lines.

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