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Works Cited list example

See how to format an MLA works cited list. Follow citation order, layout, and style rules to present sources correctly in your academic work.

What to include in your Works Cited list

  • Give an entry for every recoverable source you have cited in the text.
  • Don’t add entries for material you have not used, however relevant.

How to arrange your references

  • List your references alphabetically by the author's surname.
  • List entries with no author by title. If the title begins with  ‘A’, ‘An’ or ‘The’, list alphabetically by the second word.
  • If you have more than one entry with the same author, list alphabetically by title.
  • Use a long dash (or three hyphens) to stand for repeating author’s name.
  • Where multiple entries have the same author or first-listed co-author, single-author entries precede two--author entries, which in turn precede entries with three or more authors (e.g. works by Jones are listed first, followed by works by Jones and Harris followed by works by Jones et al.)

How to format your Works Cited list

  • Begin the reference list on a new page at the end of your document.
  • Use the heading ‘Works Cited’, centred at the top of the page.
  • Alphabetise your reference list. In Word: select your references, then click on the 'AZ' button in the paragraph section of the menu bar.
  • Use double line spacing. In Word: select your references and use Ctrl+2 (Command+2 on a Mac) to double-space lines.
  • Use a hanging indent (approx. 0.75 cm or 4-5 spaces). In Word: select your references and use Ctrl+T (Command+T on a Mac).
References will be formatted slightly differently depending on the source type.

Example Works Cited list

Works Cited

Arnavas, Francesca. Uncanny Fairy Tales: Hybrid Wonders in the Mirror. Routledge, 2024. Taylor & Francis, www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003403449/uncanny-fairy-tales-francesca-arnavas

"Chapter two: A touch of evil." Riverdale, season 1, episode 2, The CW television network, 3 Feb. 2017. Netflix, www.netflix.com/au/title/80133311.

Currie, Dawn H., and Deirdre M. Kelly. “Critical Social Literacy: Media Engagement as an Exercise of Power.” The Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies, vol. 44, no. 5, 2022, pp. 406–446.

Finley, Mark-Elliot. “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Beowulf: Rowling’s Beowulfian Allusions, Analogues, and Inversions.” Mythlore, vol. 43, no. 2, 2025, pp. 137–60. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/48820334. 

“Global Environment Facility. “Governments Commit to Shared Climate Action through Least Developed Countries Fund.” Global Environment Facility, 26 Sept. 2019, www.thegef.org/news/governments-commit-shared-climate-action-through-least-developed-countries-fund. Press release.

Honchell Smith, Stephanie. “Why Plague Doctors Wore Beaked Masks.” TEDEd, https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-plague-doctors-wore-beaked-masks.

Jeane. Comment on “The Reading Brain: Differences between Digital and Print.” So Many Books, 25 Apr. 2013, somanybooksblog.com/2013/04/25/the-reading-brain-differences-between-digital-and-print/.

Jones, A. “Details of Grave of Oskar Schindler.” Flickr, 1 May 2011, http://www.flickr.com/photos/adam_jones/5676126945.

Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Narrated by Sissy Spacek, audiobook ed., unabridged ed., HarperAudio, 8 July 2014.

Luckman, Susan, et al. “'The Devil Is in the Level': Understanding Inequality in Australia's Film, TV and Radio Industries.” Media International Australia, vol. 176, no. 1, 2020, pp. 3–18.  SAGE Journals, https://doi.org/1177/1329878X19892772.

Morris, Linda. “The Sydney Couple Who Gifted the City a Rock and Polished Metal Sculpture.” The Age [Melbourne], 17 Sep. 2025, 3, www.theage.com.au/culture/art-and-design/the-sydney-couple-who-gifted-the-city-a-rock-and-polished-metal-sculpture-20250911-p5mude.html

Pierman, Nicole. “In Loving Memory of Kerry Greenwood.” Nicole’s Bookish Nook, uploaded by Nicole Pierman, 18 Jul. 2025, youtu.be/ntTypmlf1sg?si=ydYy81vySN7r-x5w

Smith, Jermey C. A. “Regionality and civilizations in the Americas: Considerations on Civilizational Analysis in the Context of American Modernities.” Civilization, Modernity, and Critique: Engaging Johann P. Arnason’s Macro-Social Theory, edited by Lubomir Dunaj, Jeremy C. A. Smith and Kurt C. M. Mertel, Routledge, 2023, pp. 214-227.

Speed, Lesley. Clueless: American Youth in the 1990s. Routledge, 2018. https://researchonline.federation.edu.au/

Topaçoğlu, Ahmet. Adaptation as a Form of Translation: Patterns of Changes in Adapting Shakespeare's Macbeth from Stage to Screen. 2019. Dokuz Eylul Universitesi, Master’s thesis. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/adaptation-as-form-translation-patterns-changes/docview/2925388354/se-2.

Walker‏, Stan [@stanwalker]. "Thank you Rolling Stone for best album nomination #rollingstone #fyp #maori #maoritiktok." TikTok, 25 July 2023, tiktok.com/@stanwalker/video/7259696004960734471.

Walsh, Jemma. “Hunter Page-Lochard Interview.” National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, 2023, www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/spear-hunter-page-lochard

Water Use on Australian Farms, Catalogue no. 4618.0, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 7 July 2017, www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/4618.0?OpenDocument.

Zhang, Dongyu, et. al. “Expressing Metaphorically, Writing Creatively: Metaphor Identification for Creativity Assessment.” Proceedings of the WWW ’22 Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2022, edited by Frederick Laforest, Raphael Troncy, Lionel Medini, and Ivan Herman, Association for Computing Machinery, 2022, pp. 1198-1205. ACM Digital Library, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3487553.3524935