Basic rules for the Works Cited page:

a.      Remember to alphabetize your entries by author's last name.  Do not number them.  If a source has no author, then alphabetize by the title of the source.  Ignore articles (a, an, the) when determining alphabetical order.

b.      Be sure your margins are set to 1 inch all the way around.

c.  Use hanging paragraphs or reverse indentation for all entries.

d.      Either underline or italicize (italics preferred), but don't mix formats.  (Underlining means the same thing as italicizing.)

e.      Follow formatting conventions for titles of “minor works” and major works.  (See the titles chart.)

f.       MLA says to abbreviate months to the first three letters (e.g. Dec.), except for May, June, and July.

g.      Put 2 spaces after end punctuation (i.e. units of information, like the author's name and the title of an article).

h.      Even though the original source may take liberties by not capitalizing words in titles, or adding a lot of extra bibliographic information, you still have to adjust the capitalization and follow all the other MLA conventions for documenting your sources.

i.      The new version of MLA documentation requires that you identify the medium of your source by indicating either Print, Web, DVD, and so forth at the very end of your bibliographic entry.