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MLA Style Guide: 8th Edition: Works Cited

MLA Format

Works Cited

The list of works cited appear at the end of your paper and should be started on a new page, continuing the page numbers of the text. The title “Works Cited” should appear centered on the top of the page.

All works cited entries should be double-spaced and use a ‘hanging-indent’ format, which means that the first line of each reference is left-aligned while subsequent lines are indented ½ inch.

References are listed alphabetically by author; if there is no author use the title of the work, ignoring any initial, ‘A,’ ‘An,’ or ‘The’ or the equivalent in another language.