Works Cited
Example
A standard bibliography, or works cited section, is a listing of the
materials (print
and non-print) used for research.
There are several formats used in writing bibliographies or work cited sections.
Always ask your teacher which form you should use for your project. The two most
common formats are K. Turabian's A Manual for Writers and the MLA Handbook
for Writers of Research Papers. Regardless of the format you use there are
some general rules to follow when preparing your bibliography or works cited page.
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Use the title page and the reverse of the title page for the bibliographic information
from a book.
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Compile alphabetically by the last name of the author or if no author's name is
given, by the first word of the title excluding a, an, and the.
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Each entry is typed single space with the 2nd and all succeeding lines of entry
indented 5 to 7 spaces.
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Double space between entries.
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Book titles must be underlined.
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Titles of articles from magazines, encyclopedias, etc. are placed in quotations.
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Page numbers are given for magazine articles, not for books.
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Include every source that you used to prepare your project.
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Entries are not numbered.
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Works by the same author are listed by copyright date, the most recent listed first.
PRINT EXAMPLES:
Book entry-one author:
Burner, David. Making Peace With the 60s. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton
University
Press, 1996.
Book
entry-two or three authors:
Potter, Lou, William Miles and Nina Rosenblum.
Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in
World War II. New York : Harcourt Brace Jonanovich Publishers,
1992.
Book
entry-no author:
Selecting The President, from 1789-1996. Washington, D.C.: Congressional
Quarterly,
1997.
Book
entry-editor, translator or compiler:
Swisher, Clarice, ed. Readings on the Sonnets of William Shakespearre. San
Diego, CA:
Greenhaven Press, Inc., 1997.
Article
in a magazine-author: (53 is the volume number for the issue)
Streshinsky, Shirley. "The Big Island on Foot." American Heritage, 53: April/May
2002,
48-57.
Article
in a magazine-no author: (include volume number if given, see entry above)
"Getting a Jump on Literacy," Newsweek, 29 April 2002, 66.
Encyclopedia
article-author:
Evert, Chris. "Tennis." World Book Encyclopedia, 1998ed., vol. 19. 161-165.
Encyclopedia
article-no author:
"Academy Awards." Academic American Encyclopedia. 1998ed., vol. 1. 71.
ELECTRONIC/ONLINE EXAMPLES:
Online Encyclopedia--author: (April 25 is the
date you visited the site.)
Pasquier, Roger F., "Owl." Encyclopedia Americana Online. Grolier, Inc.,
2001.
ea.grolier.com="">>
(April 25, 2002).
(April 25, 2002).
Online
Encyclopedia-no author:
"Jumping Mouse." Encyclopedia Americana Online. Grolier, Inc., 2001.
ea.grolier.com="">>
(April 25, 2002).
(April 25, 2002).
Web Pages:
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List the author's name, if given.
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List the title of the page.
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Give the complete URL (site address).
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Give the date the web page was created or last updated.
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Indicate the date you visited the page.
Example:
Holland, Merlin. "The Official Web Site of Oscar Wilde."
>
>
/>
Historic/wilde/>. 1996-2002. (April 24, 2002).
Computer Programs (CD-ROM, disk, etc.):
"Golding, William, a biographical sketch." Exploring Novels (CD-ROM). Gale
Research,
1998.
E-mail:
To cite e-mail files give the author's name and e-mail address, subject line, date
created, type of document and date read/visited.
Lipton, Nancy
"Editorial Format." July 29, 1997. Personl e-
Mail (July 30, 1997).
NOTE:
If you cannot find some of the information required for a bibliographic entry for
a computer program, online reference or a web site cite what information is available.
ENDNOTES/CITATIONS:
Plagiarism is the act of using another person's ideas
or words in your writing without acknowledging the source. This acknowledgement
can be given by using endnotes (Turabian) or by citations directly in your paper
(MLA).
When citing the source within the text, the author's last name, date of publication,
and the page number where you found the information are placed in parenthesis following
the information written in your paper from that particular source. For example,
(Burner 1966, 53)
When citing a source using endnotes, a number 1 for the first citation is placed
a half-space above the line directly after the information being cited in your paper.
The next notes are numbered 2,3,4..etc. Endnotes are placed on a separate page at
the end of your paper under the heading Endnotes.
The endnotes are single spaced with a double space between each endnote. The first
line is indented 5 spaces, with succeeding lines even with the left margin. The
number of each endnote should be typed first, a half-space above the line.
When using endnotes after a work has been cited for the first time you need only use the author's last name and page number for each additional endnote. If an author
has more than one work cited in your project include the title in the abbreviated
endnote.
EXAMPLES:
Book-one author
1David Burner. Making Peace With the 60s. (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton
University Press, 1996), 100.
Book-two
or three authors:
1Lou Potter, William Miles and Nina Rosenblum. Liberators: Fighting On Two Fronts
in World War II. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
Publishers, 1992), 53.
Book-no
author:
1Selecting The President, from 1789 to 1996. (Washington, D.C.: Congressional
Quarterly, 1997), 109.
Article
in a magazine-author:
1Shirley Streshinsky. "The Big Island on Foot." American Heritage. 53: April/May
2002, 49.
Article
in a magazine-no author:
1"Getting a Jump on Literacy." Newsweek. 29 April 2002, 66.
Encyclopedia
article-author:
1Chris Evert. "Tennis." World Book Encyclopedia. 1997ed., vol. 19, 161.
Encyclopedia
article-no author:
1"Academy Awards." Academic American Encyclopedia, 1998 ed., vol. 1, 71.