Although styles for a Works Cited section can vary depending on the style guide that is used, what rule is likely to be the same in any guide? Citations should not contain abbreviations. Works Cited are alphabetized by author last name. Periods are required after each part of a citation. All Works Cited titles are enclosed in quotation marks.

Works Cited are alphabetized by author last name.  

Explanation:

The Works section cited in an article or other academic work serves to show which references the author of the text used and found so relevant to the work that he decided to quote them by giving due credit to those who wrote them. This section is extremely important and needs to be standardized, to make the display of quotes easier to analyze. One of the most important points of this standardization is the literacy of the works cited through the surname of the aurtor. This rule is a strict rule and cannot be modified in any academic work.