Research Tools
Outlining | Taking Notes | Works Cited | Evaluating Web sites | Searching the Internet| Team 7-1
Writing a Works Cited with Online sources
WorksCited.doc
- Travel to web sites listed below
- Locate the information needed to write a works cited entry
- Organize the information into a works cited entry
- Write a works cited page
Websites
Locate the information on the web site
Author’s Last Name, First Name.
“Page Title.” The title of the specific page, not the web site
Site Title.
Publishing or last revision date. DD MMM YYYY [spell out May, June, and July]
Organization.
Date Accessed DD MMM YYYY
<URL>.
Organize the information into a works cited entry
Author’s last name, First name. “Page Title.” Site Title. Revised Date. Organization.
Access Date <URL>.
“Page” and Site Titles
- Capitalize major words in the titles, do not capitalize ”a, an, the”, short prepositions, or conjunctions unless one is the first word of the title: Surviving the Dust Bowl
- Underline Site titles
- Use “quotation marks” for page titles
Revision and Access Dates
- Write the date in the order Day, Month, Year / DD MMM YYYY / 12 Jan. 2006
- Spell out the months May, June, July
- Use three letter abbreviations of the months
<Web Addresses>
- Insert <angle brackets> around the URL.
- When dividing a web address, break the line after a slash.
- Do not underline web addresses or highlight in color
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Write the works cited page
- Begin your Works Cited page on a separate page at the end of your research paper.
- Label the page Works Cited and center the words Works Cited at the top of the page.
- Double space all citations
- Alphabetize the list by the first word of the entries. (Do not use the words “ A, An or The” for alphabetizing.
- Do not indent the first line of each works cited entry, but do indent any additional lines (five spaces)
