Brainiest and worth 10 points! how should references on a works cited page be arranged? in the order the writer found them during research from the shortest to the longest entry by alphabetical order by author or organization according to how much the writer used each onewhat is the purpose of a signal phrase? to show the need for a reference within an article to call attention to plagiarism in informational text to point out an internal citation to the reader to indicate the end of text and the start of citations 5.