See page 761 in our Prentice Hall Writing and Grammar text for how to cite the book you're reading and other sorts of sources. There is a copy included in your packet. A sample works cited list is found on page 764. Some Internet sources (Such as World Book) tell you how to cite them.
There are also web sites that help you put together a works cited list.
Check out http://www.citationmachine.net/ and http://easybib.com/
Here's the basic pattern for creating a Works cited entry for a book:
If your source is from the Internet:
author’s last name if given comma
author’s first name if given period
title if given period Or site name
Retrieved [date retrieved] from [web address]
If your source is a Book with one author:
author’s last name comma
author’s first name period
title of book period
city where published colon
publisher comma
year published period
Sample sources as they would be shown in a Works Cited list:
Citing a Book
I’m reading a book called Sacagawea by Peter and Connie Roop. It was published in New York by Hyperion in 1999.
Go to http://www.citationmachine.net
Click on MLA -- the red letters in the column to the left.
Click on “Books with one or more authors.”
Enter the information.
Click on submit.
Works Cited
Did you get this?
Roop, Peter and Connie. Sacagawea.
New York: Hyperion, 1999.
Here’s another book:
I’m reading The Journal of Ben Uchida by Barry Denenburg. It was published by Scholastic Inc. in New York in 1999.
Fill in the information on Citation Machine.
Did you get this?
Denenburg, Barry. The Journal of Ben Uchida. New York: Scholastic Inc, 1999.
