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First name Last name                                      Joe Doe

Teacher’s Name                                              Mrs. Scales

Class                                                               English 10: 2

Date                                                                18 February 2015

Date format: day month (fully spelled out) year

 

WORKS CITED PAGE

 

• Center the words Works Cited.

 

• Do not bold-face, italicize or underline Works Cited.

 

• Double space between lines and between entries.

 

• Indent the second line of each entry, as well as any additional lines.

 

• Do not number entries.

 

• Alphabetize entries.

 

• Date format: day month year (abbreviate all months except May, June, July)

 

10 Sept. 2008

 

• You must include a publication medium marker. Most entries are listed as Print or Web, but other possibilities include Performance, DVD, or TV. Most of these markers will appear at the end of entries; however, markers for web sources are followed by the date of access.

 

IN-TEXT (PARENTHETICAL) CITATIONS

 

• In parentheses, immediately after a quotation (or a paraphrase of that source’s idea), place the author’s last name, a space, and the page number(s). Do not place a period or a comma inside the quotation marks.

According to one wise man, “We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same” (Castanada 1).

 

• When a source has no author, use title of article, book, etc.

Most of France was rural: 80 percent of the population lived in villages or hamlets of less than 2,000 people (“The French Revolution” 66).

 

• When citing from the same source consecutively, include the author’s name for the first citation. Thereafter, cite only the page number.

 

• When there is more than one source by the same author, include the author’s last name and the article or book title.

 

• When citing from an indirect source (a source cited in another source), use the abbreviation qtd. in.

(Dewey qtd. in Smith 318).

 

• When a direct quote is four lines or more, you must use a block quote. To do so, indent ten spaces on each side. Do not single-space a block quote. Omit quotation marks, unless your quote is dialogue, and then use single quotes. Your citation should come after the closing punctuation mark.

 

• Place a colon following a complete sentence that precedes and introduces a quote.

 

TITLES

 

• Italicize titles of independently published works. (Do not underline.) books, plays, pamphlets, films, CD’s, periodicals (newspapers, magazines, journals), paintings

 

• Use quotation marks for titles of works published within larger works. articles, essays, song titles, poems, book chapters, or short stories published within independently published works; episodes of radio or television shows; songs on a CD; scenes in a film

The rules for poetry differ from the rules for quoting prose in two key ways:

• Poetry requires writers to cite line numbers not page numbers.
• Poetry requires writers to keep line breaks in tact.
• Quoting 1, 2 or 3 lines of poetry. You can quote three or fewer lines of poetry without having to place the lines in a block quote. Use quotation marks. Use a slash to indicate the break between lines. Put the line numbers in parentheses. Place the period at the end of the line number(s):.

Heaney directly compares poetry writing to the digging his ancestors did: “Between my finger and my thumb / The squat pen rests. / I’ll dig with it” (29-31).

• Quoting 4 or more lines of poetry. If you quote four or more lines of poetry, you need to block indent the poem ten spaces on the left margin.

The author, David Bottoms, is wise to the fact that men often use sports to communicate their feelings. The persona of the poem, however, takes years to realize his father’s message. Once he realizes the importance of sports to their relationship, he sends a message back to his father: and I never learned what you were laying down. Like a hand brushed across the bill of a cap, let this be the sign I’m getting a grip on the sacrifice. (20-23)

• Do not use ellipses if you start quoting a poem midline. If you want to start quoting in the middle of a line of poetry, just add indentions to indicate the text is only a partial line. Do not use ellipses points (. . .).

McDonald paints a picture of a family in pain, but he uses images that usually show up in cozier circumstances, such as children reading the comics: At dawn we folded the quilts and funnies, crept softly through our chores. (13-16)

• If you remove words from the middle of a line, DO use an ellipses to represent the missing text.

As a boy, the persona visited his grandfather in the fields: “Once I carried him milk. . . . / He straightened up / To drink it” (Heaney 19-21).

• If you remove one or more full line, use a line of ellipses to indicate the omission.

The persona in Hayden’s poem would wake to hear the fire his father started before dawn: Sundays too my father got up early . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress. (1, 6-8)

• Put line numbers after citing several single words. If you quote several words or phrases from throughout a poem, list the line numbers after each word.

Roethke uses a variety of words in “My Papa’s Waltz” that indicate physical violence, words such as “death” (3), “battered” (9), “scraped” (12), “beat” (13), and “hard” (14).

• For one word, put the line number at the end. Just as when quoting a single word of a prose work, put line numbers at the end of a sentence if quoting only one word.

When Heaney uses a simile to compare his pen to a “gun,” he creates a startling image (2).

 

Specific Works Cited Entries for Poetry

 

 

Smith 2

Works Cited

Hoaglan, Tony. “Grammar.” Poetry 180. Library of Congress, 1998. Web. 18 Feb. 2015.

Shakespeare, William. “Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day?” An Introduction to Poetry. Ed.

X.J. Kennedy. and Dana Gioia. 11^th Ed. New York: Pearson, 2005. 119-120. Print.