As per Modern Language Association (MLA) standard Work Cited Page should be at the end of the research paper. It starts as a new page with title at the center and date ½ “ below the top flush with the right margin. The first list of work cited should be double spaced, and start from left and end from right; the subsequent lines are indented ½”. The list appears alphabetically as per author name or title name if author name is not available. There are different standards for different listings like books, web page, periodicals etc.

            MLA Works Cited Page Examples

            Books – Entries are Author's name, Title of the book, Publication Information

            Examples

Silver, Lee M. Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave

        New World. New York:Avon, 997           

Eggins, Suzanne and Diana Slade. Analyzing Casual Coversation.

        London, Cassel, 1997           

Borroff, Marie. Language and the Past: Verbal Artistry in Frost,

        Stevens, and Moore. Chicago: University of Chicago P, 1979

            Other Non periodical Publications – an anthology or compilation, a book by a corporate author, an article in a reference book, cross references, an anonymous book, a multi volume work, a republished book, …………, a book with multiple publishers, a published dissertation. The examples for these work citations can be found can be found in the latest MLA handbook for writers of research papers.

            Article – Entries are Author's name, Title of the article, Publication Information

            Examples

Mann, Susan.  Myths of Asian womanhood.” Journal of Asian studies 59

         (2000):835-62

Berthelme, Frederick. “Architecture.” Kansas Quarterly.” 13.3-4

          (1981):77-80           

Mcneilly Kevin. “ Home Economics.” Canadian Literature 166(20000: 5-

       16.

                        Other Publications in Periodicals – an article in Newspapers, an article in a Magazine, a review, an abstract in an abstract journal, an anonymous article, an editorial, a letter to editor, a special issue, an article on microfilm, a reprinted article. The examples for these work citations can be found can be found in the latest MLA handbook for writers of research papers.

            Electronic Publications - Entries are Author's name, Title of the document, Information about print publication, information about electronic publication, Access Information.

            Examples

            Hoffman, Heinrich. “Struwwelpeter.” Trans. Mark Twain, Nineteen Century

                 German stories. Ed. Robert Goldwin-Jones.  22 Feb.1999. Foreign Lang.

                 Dept. Virginia Commonwealth U. 10 Jan 2002 http://wwwflnvcu.edu/stru wwel/twpete.html>.

                        Other Electronic Publications – an online book, an article in an online periodical, a publication in CD-Rom, Diskettes or magnetic tape, a work in more than one medium, A work from a library or personal subscription service, a work on an indeterminate medium, other electronic sources. The examples for these work citations can be found can be found in the latest MLA handbook for writers of research papers.

            MLA Works Cited Page Examples

            Other examples for citing television, film, sound, music composition etc. can be found in the latest MLA handbook for writers of research papers.