When you create your Works Cited page, use the following format:
- It should be double-spaced and in an easily readable font. (We suggest 12-pt. Times New Roman.)
- The title Works Cited should be centered at the top of the page.
- If you only cited one item, you have a Work Cited page.
- Your citations should be left-justified with a hanging indent of 0.5 inches.
- Capitalize the first word in each title. Also capitalize the main words: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and subordinating conjunctions. Unless one of these words is the first word in the title, do not capitalize: articles, prepositions, coordinating conjunctions, or the “to” in infinitives. For examples of these parts of speech, see the MLA Handbook, 9th ed., pp. 54-55.
- Alphabetize your Works Cited page by the first word in the citation, usually author. If there is no author, use the first word in the title, but ignore articles (a, an, and the). If the title begins with a year or a number (for example, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus), alphabetize it as if the number/year is spelled out (“fourteen ninety-one”).
