Citing Works for Literature Papers
Novel or Play | Work in a Collection or Anthology |
Citing Works for Literature Papers
Novel or Play | Work in a Collection or Anthology |
In the body of the text, cite using author's last name and page number
in parentheses at the end of the sentence. If you mention the author's
name in the sentence, you do not need to also include it in the parentheses.
The parenthetcal citation goes inside the period when the quote is run
into the text; when there is a block quote that is indented, the parentheses
goes outside the period.
In his Introduction to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Williams says we are all "sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins" (vii).Maggie asks Brick, "Haven't I done enough time?" (Williams 31) (Note that in this case where the question mark is part of the quote, you do not double up and put a period too.)
Put full citation on Works Cited Page at the back.
Form of Entries for Works Cited Page
Author of poem/play,
last name first. Title. (original copyright date) Place of publication:
Publishing Company, date of edition.
Piercy, Marge. Woman on the Edge of Time. New York: Fawcett Crest, 1976.
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five. (1969) New York City: Dell, 1971.
Williams, Tennesse. Cat on A Hot
Tin Roof. New York City: New American Library, 1955.
(Poem,
play etc. collected/ reprinted in an anthology
or collection)
Ginsberg, Allen. "Sunflower Sutra." 1956. In Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg. San Fransico, CA: City Lights Books, 1998.35-8.
Rabe, David. Sticks and Bones. 1973. Rpt. In the Vietnam Plays by David Rabe. New York: Grove Press, 1993. 93-177.
(A
review -- books and movies are the same format)
Author's Lastname, Author's Firstname. "Title of Document." Title ofWebsite . Document date or date of last revision. Protocol and address, access path or directories (date of access).
Burka, Lauren P. "A Hypertext History of Multi-User Dimensions." The MUDdex. 1993.
http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/lpb/muddex/essay/ (5 Dec. 1994).