Works Cited  Chui, Glennda. “National Academy of Science sets new guidelines for DNA

use in court.” Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service 2 May 1996: 1-2 Cohen, Jack and Ian Stuart. Beyond all reasonable DNA.” The Lancet 24 June

1995: 1586-1589. Flint, Anthony. “Judges struggle with reliability and quality of expert testimony.” Knight-Ridder/ Tribune News Service 21 Oct. 1991: 1-2. Hoover, J. Edgar. “Fingerprinting.” Encyclopedia Americana. Vol. 11:215-219.

Sample Works Cited

Internal Citation

1. The quote marks go around the quote, but not around the parentheses.

2. “Even if the parentheses go at the end of a direct quote” (they look like this).

3. You do not need to use p. or pp. For page numbers, just use the numerals (Poe 12). Note that there is no comma after Poe.

The general rule is that you will have an author/editor name. If you do not, use the first item in your Works Cited notation.

Example

If there is no author, use the title of the article:

Danielle Steel’s books are “not good literature, but they sell like hotcakes” (“Queen of Romance” 12).

Most Importantly!

• Any material in your document which derives from other sources whether by direct quotation, paraphrase, or inspiration must be attributed immediately and the sources named either by direct reference or by parenthetical citation.

In Text Citation

If it can be smoothly done, sources may be cited directly in your text.

Examples:• In a stunning scene on

page 27, Bronte reveals the source of Heathcliff’s inner torment: "in an uncontrollable passion of tears [ , ] ‘Come in! come in!’ he sobbed. ‘Cathy do come.’ "

Remember: Any information not given directly in the text, must be cited parenthetically (within parentheses).

Block Quotation

• Block Quotation If the quotation you are using consists of more than three lines of text, you need to use a block quotation. To accomplish this, indent the lines of quoted text from both the right and left margins.

• If your document is double spaced, the block quotation is double space as well.

How to Head Your Formal Essay

Use this as a model:

http://www.cuyamaca.edu/tpagaard/Generic/MLAFormat.pdf

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