Citation


 * Citing Sources**

Wilmington High School uses the **MLA Citation Format**. The MLA format has now changed with the 7th Edition. WHS Library has copies of the MLA Handbook (7th). **Some very helpful resources are**: Purdue Online Writing Lab OWL: [] Purdue OWL - MLA Format citations: MLA Citations using OWL Diane Hacker: [] NoodleTools

**__Major changes for citations include:__** 1. No URL in citation for Web sources

2. Italicizing titles – no underlining 3. Inclusion of type of source for each citation – a “medium publication marker”: Examples are:Print. Web. Television. 4. Information required for citing web sources: N.p. = no publisher; n.d.= no date 5. Subscription Database doesn’t include name of subscriber

**Bibliography** – This is a list of all the resources that you gathered or looked at in order to write your paper. The format is almost identical to the works cited list. In the bibliography, everything is listed including sources that you did not use for your paper. When you are doing research, it is important that you keep track of sources that you may use for your paper. Write down the author, title, publisher, and so forth so that you can find the document again when needed. This bibliography will eventually evolve into your Works Cited list. An annotated bibliography is simply writing up a summary of the contents of the resource. **Works Cited** – When you write a research paper or a literature analysis and are using other people’s work, ideas, books, images, sounds, etc. you must give them credit for the work by writing a Works Cited list. The format that we use at school is the M.L.A. format. The works cited list contains all the works that you will cite in your text. The OWL Purdue Online Writing Lab contains all the instructions needed to write a works cited list.