CREATING THE “WORKS CITED” PAGE

(using Microsoft Word)

 

  1. Your citations should be at the end of your paper.  In order to make a new page for  your citations:

Hold down the “Ctrl” key, and hit “enter”

 

  1.  Citations should be double-spaced.  If you haven’t done this already in your document:
    1. Go to “Format”
    2. Click on “Paragraph”
    3. Choose “Spacing,” then “Line Spacing,” then “Double”
    4. Click “O.K.”

 

  1. Next, you will need to type the title of the page.
    1. Choose the “center” icon
    2. Type: Works Cited
    3. Hit “enter”
    4. Choose the “Align Left” icon

 

  1. References are typed using a “hanging indent.”  To create this:
    1. Choose “Format,” then “Paragraph”
    2. Under “Paragraph,” choose the “Indents and Spacing” tab
    3. Under “Indentation,” click the “down arrow” beside “Special” and choose “Hanging”
    4. Hit “O.K.”

 

  1. You are now ready to type your citations:
    1. As you type your first reference, if it is longer than one line it will “wrap” around the page, and the second line will automatically be indented.
    2. After you have completed typing the first citation, press the “Enter” key one time.  This will bring you back to the left-hand margin.
    3. Type all of your citations, following steps (a) and (b) above.

 

Note:  If you’ve already typed your citations, and you forgot to create hanging indents:

a)      Go to the bottom of your citation list

b)      Hold down the “shift” key and use the “up arrow” to highlight all of  your citations

c)      Follow step #4 (above) to create hanging indents.

 

 

DON’T FORGET:  CITATIONS MUST BE ALPHABETIZED.

 

 


 

Works Cited

 

Blanco, Richard L., ed. The American Revolution. 2 vols. Hamden, NJ: Garland, 1999.

Hallin, Daniel C. “Sound Bite News.” Journal of Communication 42.2 (2000): 5-24.

Hoar, William P.  “Benign Discrimination?”  New American 19.9 (2004):    42-44.  InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP.  Gale Group.  Montgomery College, Takoma Park Campus Library. 23 Oct. 2005  <www.galegroup.com>.  

Krisberg, Barry, and James F. Austin.  Reinventing Juvenile Justice.  Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1993.

Lavelle, Marianne. “Behind the Teen Birth Decline.” U.S. News & World Report 8 Nov. 1999: 22.

Palfrey, Andres. "Choice of Mates in Identical Twins."  Modern Psychology 4.1 (2003): 26-40. 4 Jan. 2003  <http://www.liasu.edu/modpsy/palfrey4(1).html>.  

Smith, Mick.  "To Speak of Trees: Social Constructivism."  Environmental Ethics 21 (1999): 359-360.

“Staying True to the Resistance.”  Horizons 17.1 (2005): 48.  InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP.  Gale Group. Montgomery College, Takoma Park Library.  23 Oct. 2005 <www.galegroup.com>.