so that the author's assertions could be checked, etc.? Wikipedia should never be used as a source for a college paper, though it can provide useful bibliographic references.

- 4) Documentation

For Dr. Smith’s courses, use the Modern Language Association (MLA) guidelines for doing parenthetical citations and a Works Cited or Bibliography page (the difference between a Works Cited page and a Bibliography is that the Works Cited page just includes works that you actually cite parenthetically in your text, whereas a bibliography can include other works that you consulted during your research and that were valuable for your project, but that didn't actually get cited). The Chicago Manual is also often used for humanities papers, so follow your instructor’s directions for documentation.

#### Parenthetical Citations (MLA):

- • a parenthetical citation, give the author's last name followed directly by the page number. The closing • a parenthetical citation, give the author's last name followed directly by the page number. The closing period comes after the citation: (Smith 47).
- • two authors: (Smith and Jones 47). • two authors: (Smith and Jones 47).
- • multiple pages: (Smith and Jones 47-48). • multiple pages: (Smith and Jones 47-48).
- • there is no author, give an abbreviated version of whatever appears first in your Works Cited entry, • there is no author, give an abbreviated version of whatever appears first in your Works Cited entry, which is usually the title: (Paintings of Raphael 47), in the case of a book, or ("Paintings of Raphael" 47) if it's an article.

#### Works Cited Page (MLA):

The entries should be in alphabetical order, and should not be numbered. There should be no separate categories for books and articles. Works of art should not be included. The first line should be flush with the left margin, and any subsequent lines in an entry should be indented.

Here are some guidelines for Works Cited entries in the MLA format (Fall 2017 revision). (Tip: pay attention to quotation marks vs. italics, and to commas and periods.) 1) For a standard book with one author: Smith, Jane. The Paintings of Raphael. Thames and Hudson, 2000.

2) For a book with two or more authors: Smith, Jane, and Robert Jones. The Art of William Blake. Oxford UP, 2000. [UP stands for University Press]

3) For a book with no author: Sculpture in the Age of the Medici. Princeton UP, 1998.

5) For two or more works by the same author, only give the author's name in the first entry. The second entry should replace the author's name with 3 hyphens. The entries should be in alphabetical order by title: Smith, Jane. Art in the Age of Raphael. Ashgate, 2001. ---. The Paintings of Raphael. Thames and Hudson, 2000.

6) For an article in an anthology: Smith, Jane. "Raphael's Madonnas." Art of the High Renaissance, edited by Patrick Morris, Princeton UP, 1998, pp. 13-28.

7) For a scholarly article in a journal: Smith, Robert S. "Raphael's Early Paintings." The Art Bulletin, vol. 55, no. 2, 1997, pp. 308-56.

8) For an on-line professional web site, give the author (if available), the title of the page (in quotation marks), the title of the website (italics), the name of the sponsor or publisher or institution associated with the website, date, shortened URL, DOI, or permalink, and the date of access: Miller, Asher Ethan. “The Horse Fair.” The Met, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016, www.metmuseum.org. Accessed 13 August 2017.

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