As you assemble preliminary bibliographies for your Analytical Research Papers, it’s not too early to begin thinking about how to format your bibliography properly and how to include citations in the body of your paper when you quote from a source or when you include an idea that you found in one of your sources.
For this paper, we will be following the guidelines of the MLA (Modern Language Association) 8th Edition.
For a description of how to format bibliographic entries using the MLA guidelines, see the Purdue OWL’s online guide:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_sample_works_cited_page.html
For this paper, you will be including a Works Cited page, not a regular bibliography. This means that, rather than a big list of all the potential sources you looked at, your page will only include the sources you actually used in writing your paper. This page comes at the end of your essay and should say Works Cited at the top of the page.
You are welcome to use a citation generator (like EasyBib) in putting together your bibliography. Just make sure to select MLA 8th Edition. If you have questions about how to format a particular entry, feel free to reach out to me or consult one of the many resources online.
