English Composition 1

Preparing the Works Cited Page for Essay 3

This page should help you prepare the Works Cited page for Essay 3. For more information, see Documenting Sources from Online Subscription Databases and Citing and Documenting Online Sources.

The Stories

The stories "The Revolt of Mother" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" should be listed on the Works Cited page as indicated below:

Works Cited

Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins. “The Revolt of Mother.” English Composition 1. Illinois Valley Community College. 10 October 2008. <http://www.ivcc.edu/rambo/eng1001/revolt_of_mother.htm>.

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “The Yellow Wallpaper.” English Composition 1. Illinois Valley Community College. 10 October 2008. <http://www.ivcc.edu/rambo/eng1001/yellow_wallpaper.htm>.

Sources from Subscription Library Databases

Sources from First Search, ProQuest Direct, EBSCOHost, JSTOR, or other subscription databases should be listed on the Works Cited page following the format below. See Documenting Sources from Online Subscription Databases for more information.

Basic format:

Author's last name, Author's first and middle name. "Title of the Essay." Title of the Journal Volume number.Issue number (year or date): page numbers. Name of Databases. Jacobs Library, Oglesby, IL. Date you access the information, in the format 16 October 2006. <http://www.database_homepage_web_address>.

Example:

Works Cited

Cutter, Martha J. “Frontiers of Language: Engendering Discourse in 'The Revolt of "Mother."'" American Literature 63.2 (June 1991): 279-91. JSTOR. Jacobs Library, Oglesby, IL. 12 October 2008 <http://ezproxy.ivcc.edu:2148>.

Other Sources

For online sources except those in subscription databases, you should follow the basic format presented on the Citing and Documenting Online Sources page and the Web page at http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite5.html#1. However, there are many variations of how to list sources, depending on the information that is provided for the source. If it is given, you should add information such as the title of the online journal, the volume and issue number, the date of publication or posting, and the name of the database. Original publication information should be included for Gilman's essay "Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper.”

Basic format:

Author's last name, Author's first and middle name. "Title of the Essay." Title of the Journal Volume number.Issue number (year or date). Date you access the information, in the format 16 October 2006. <http://www.web_address>.

Examples:

Works Cited

Daniel, Janice. “Redefining Place: Femes Covert in the Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman--Covered, Confined or Enclosed Women.” Studies in Short Fiction. Winter 1996. FindArticles. 6 October 2008 <http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2455/is_n1_v33/ai_19638479>.

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper.” The Forerunner October 1913. American Literature Since 1865. Stephen Railton. University of Virginia. 10 October 2008 <http://people.virginia.edu/~sfr/enam312/cpghp.html>.

Mahin, Michael James. “The Awakening and The Yellow Wallpaper: An Intertextual Comparison of the ‘Conventional’ Connotations of Marriage and Propriety.” Domestic Goddesses. Ed. Kim Wells. 12 October 2008 <http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/mahin.htm>.

Miscellaneous Information

Works should be listed in alphabetical order, according to the author's last name.
The Works Cited page should be double spaced, with no extra spacing anywhere.
The URLs should be in angle brackets.
The URLs should not appear as links.
The URLs should be split in two if necessary for even right margins. (Just add a space somewhere in the URL.)
The listings on the Works Cited page use a "hanging indent" (first line of a work not indented, each line after the first indented).
The first letter of each important word in titles should be capitalized, regardless of how the titles are presented where the articles appear.
If the information is provided, you should give the volume number; issue number; year, month and year, season and year, or date; and page number, in the format 2.11 (June 2004): 23-29.