12.4 MLA Citation: Works Cited Examples

Here is a model Works Cited, with correct spacing and formatting. You can click on the “+” to get more information about the formatting and structure of the Works Cited.

For step-by-step guidance in looking at what several common types of Works Cited entries need to include, click below.

A Final Note about Works Cited Entries

Sometimes you may have difficulty deciding whether a source has been published in a magazine or a scholarly journal; after all, the word “journal” appears in the names of some magazines (for example, Library Journal). Here are some tips that can help you:

• Kind of paper (especially useful if you have a hard copy). Magazines are printed on glossy paper, scholarly journals on matte paper.
• Graphics: magazines print color graphics; if a journal article has graphics, they will be black and white and usually in the form of tables or graphs.
• Citations: only rarely will magazines have in-text citations and bibliographies; journals will almost always have them.
• Advertisements: magazines usually have color advertisements; if journals have ads, they will be for other works published by the same publisher as the journal.

Attribution: This is an adaption of “MLA Citation: Works Cited Examples” by Emilie Zickel and John Brentar to include H5P, from A Guide to Rhetoric, Genre, and Success in First-Year Writing by Emilie Zickel and John Brentar is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.