Creating & Formatting a Works Cited Page

Rebecca Walker
19 steps
40 seconds

Ebsco

Worldbookonline

Google Docs

Find the end of your document

Find the end of your document and put your cursor after the last sentence

Insert a page break: Press [[cltr]] + [[enter]]

Click "Insert works cited" on the Citations tool

Copy the MLA citations from your database sources

Paste them into your Works Cited page

Arrange citations alphabetically Ignore articles like "A," "An," and "The" when putting citations in alphabetical order

Highlight the entire Works Cited page, including the Works Cited title. Change the font to Times New Roman.

Change the size to 12

Change the spacing to Double

Highlight all citations (not the Works Cited title)

Click "Format"

Click "Align & indent"

Click "Indentation options"

Select "Hanging" from the Special indent drop-down options

Set it to .5

Make sure Left and Right are set to 0

Click "Apply"

Finished! Your Works Cited page: \-Has all sources from websites, books, and databases \-Is in alphabetical order \-Is in Times New Roman font \-Is size 12 font \-Has hanging indents