Choose a form, fill it out, and push the button… you will get an individual entry for a “Works Cited” page, which you may then copy and paste into your word processor. The BibBuilder is more like a guide than a full-fledged utility, but you may nevertheless find it helpful.
What kind of source are you using?
About the Bibliography Builder
This web document does not attempt to duplicate all the resources available in the MLA Handbook, which is the most authoritative source, and which is available in any bookstore or at any reference desk. This program allows the user to subdivide the task of constructing a bibliography entry, focusing on just one item at a time. The intention is to reduce the need to scavenge through the handbook’s 81-page chapter on citation in the hopes of finding a precise model illustrating how to cite a particular source.
Limitations
- Garbage in, garbage out. If you don’t type the correct information in the blanks, or if you use improper formatting, this utility won’t be able to correct it for you.
- This utility requires a browser with JavaScript capability (found in any recent graphical browser).
- When you copy text from the browser window, you may lose the formatting (such as underlining).
- This utility generates one entry at a time. Alphabetizing and formatting the entries on the page is up to you (but this article will help: MLA Style–Using MS-Word to Format a Paper). There are commercial database applications that will do the fancy stuff; this tool is primarily intended to help undergraduates (although I use it myself all the time).
Work Cited
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: MLA, 2009.
1997 — Original version created for the Engineering Writing Centre and the University of Toronto English Library at the University of Toronto.
1998 — updated version posted at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
2003 — transferred to its present location, at Seton Hill University
27 Jul 2011 — updated and reformatted
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Just returning to school after being out for 30 + yrs, and did not have a clue what the teacher was saying when she told us our papers would be done in MLA or APA style. Is their a template for web citing formatt?
Yes, click the link labeled “Web Page.”
What if there are more than one author?
Paul Insel, R. Elaine Turner, and Don Ross?
How do I write it?
Insel, Turner, Ross, Paul, R.Elaine, Don?
I completed the cells as instructed and submit the Bib Builder… where does it go? What does it do? I didn’t see anything that aided me in my Works Cited progress.
When you push “Build Citation,” you should see a blue block of text that shows how your citation should be written. Copy that text to your word processor.
The book citation builder is not working. The web builder does work fine. Any fixes?
Thanks for the word. I will look into it Friday afternoon — my only block of time for such projects.
This was a lifesaver! Thank you!
Can you tell me if I am allowed to ammend my bib after it and the rough have been turned in. I want to remove a source and replace with a better one for the final. Is this allowed or not?
Tahnk you
That would be a question for your instructor.
I just want to say thank you so much! you guys have saved my papers so many times!
Please show me how you document a cite in MLA paper if it is a website cite (Author’s name)
Use the corporate author — the name of the group or organization that created the document.
Awesome !!! :) So glad this is out there!
How do i put in a cited block quote that is in a book but not by the author? Do i put the original person who said it or the arthor and book i got it from?
It’s better if you find the original source and quote it directly, rather than rely on a secondhand source.
However, if you must cite a secondhand source, you could introduce the quote by mentioning the ultimate source, but cite the source where you found it:
Smith’s classic definition of basketweaving still holds.
Blah bah, long indented passage from Smith goes here. (Jones 123)
When I do a bibliography for a science fair project do I have to add this site under my resources if I use it to build my bibliography?
MLA stands for “Modern Language Association,” so this page would not be helpful for answering that question.
Is the book section of your bibliography builder not functioning? The website and periodical sites seem to work fine.
Hrm… you are right. It seems to need some work. I’ll see what I can do.
I have used the Bibliography Builder with my students in the past. As I am checking it now before a lesson, I notice the the “book” option is not working.
I thought I fixed that! Probably a typo in the code. I’ll get on it today.
It should be working now.
For a person that has never wrote in MLA style this web site is a god send.
It saved me from making a F on a project.The only thing wrong with the citation is it dasent make the second line hang indention.
You are right. Even if I got it to display properly on screen, I couldn’t guarantee that it would look right when you copy-paste it into a word processor.
U SAVED MY LIFE!
This information is great for students, very helpful and usful.
This is the most easily understadable reference sites I have ever known regarding building “work cited” pages.
Thanks!
this is fantastic!
dope.. made my research paper do-able
How do I cite a person as a reference?
Smith, Adrienne. Personal interview. 1 May 2012.
It may instead be a telephone interview, email, lecture, or whatever.
Love the work you have done assisting with MLA papers! Thanks for the hard work. I have searched for the answer to this, but I didn’t find it. Please pardon if it is redundant. How do I cite song lyrics, and what is the proper format in the biblio? Thanks much!
This page on the Purdue website does a good job presenting the general form. Find an authoritative publication of the text, preferably in the sheet music sold by the publisher — plenty of online sites get the lyrics wrong. If not, cite a CD or MP3 recording, which would have a publisher and date.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/09/