WORK CITED (or BIBLIOGRAPHY) ENTRIES

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1 1 WORK CITED (or BIBLIOGRAPHY) ENTRIES The following information is needed in a works cited/bibliography entry. The information is given in the following order, using the punctuation shown below. I. PRINT EXAMPLES: Author. Title. Place of Publication: Name of Publishing Company, Year of Publication. Print. Abbreviations: N.p. = not published n.pag. = no pagination n.d. = no date BOOK WITH ONE AUTHOR Freedman, Richard. American Unions. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, Print. BOOK WITH TWO AUTHORS Williams, Brad, and Peter Johnson. Lost Legends of the West. New York: Franklin Watts, Print. BOOKS WITH MULTIPLE AUTHORS Hyde, Margaret, et al. Suicide: The Hidden Epidemic. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, Print. BOOKS WITH NO AUTHOR Webster s Biographical Dictionary. New York: G & C Merriam Co Print. AN ARTICLE IN AN ANTHOLOGY Frost, Robert. The Road Not Taken. The Norton Book of American Verse. Ed. Russell Baker. New York: Norton, Print. BOOK WITH AN EDITOR(S) Allen, Robert, ed. The American Prison System. New York: Franklin Watts, Print. MAGAZINE [monthly publication with author(s)] Ferrara, Jerry. Why Vultures Make Good Neighbors. National Geographic June 1997: Print. MAGAZINE (monthly publication, no author) Choosing a Best Friend. Seventeen December 1995: Print.

2 2 MAGAZINE (weekly publication, no author) Unsettling Conflict. Time 24 May 1996: Print. NEWSPAPER Begin with the author (if known) followed by the article title. Then give the newspaper name, date, and page numbers (including the section number). If the article does not appear on consecutive pages, use a plus sign (+) after the page number. Include the Publication Medium at the end. If the city is not obvious, put it in brackets after the name of the newspaper: City Paper [Washington]. Brummitt, Chris. Indonesia s Food Needs Expected to Soar. Boston Globe 1 Feb. 2005: A7. Print. PAMPHLET (Treat a pamphlet as you would a book. If you use a government pamphlet, please check with your instructor.) Robbins, Mary. Prison Reform: Two Options. Cincinnati: Pamphlet Publications, Print. CASSETTE President Nixon: The Watergate Affair. Columbia Broadcasting System, VHC 08732, Audiocassette. TELEVISION PROGRAM The First Americans. NBC News Special. KTIV, Sioux City. 31 May Television. ENCYCLOPEDIA (Treat an encyclopedia article or a dictionary entry as you would a piece in a collection, but do not cite the editor of the reference work.) Germany. The World Book Encyclopedia ed. Print. PERSONALLY CONDUCTED INTERVIEW To cite an interview that you conducted, begin with the name of the person interviewed. Then write Personal interview or Telephone interview followed by the date of the interview. Phillips, Marsha. Personal interview. 19 September II. ELECTRONIC EXAMPLES ENTIRE WEB SITE- Begin with the name of the author or corporate author (if known) and the title of the site, italicized. Then give the names of any editors, the name of the sponsoring organization. Provide as much information as is available.

3 3 WITH AUTHOR Peterson, Susan Lynn. The Life of Martin Luther. Susan Lynn Peterson, Web. 24 Jan WITH CORPORATE (GROUP) AUTHOR United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Drinking Water Standards. EPA, 28 Nov Web. 24 Jan SHORT WORK FROM A WEB SITE Author (if available). Title of Short Work. Title of Web Site. Sponsor or Publisher of Site, Publication date or last update. Web. Access Date. Shiva, Vandana. Bioethics: A Third World Issue. NativeWeb. NativeWeb, n.d. Web. 22 Jan WORK FROM A DATABASE SERVICE such as EBSCOhost or INFOTRAC For sources retrieved from a library s subscription database service, such as EBSCOhost, InfoTrac, LexisNexis, or ProQuest, first list the publication information for the source. Then give the name of the database, such as Academic Search Premier or Expanded Academic ASAP, italicized; the medium; and your date of access. (For the American Literature career unit, this would be the format for Choices.) Citation at a glance: To cite an article from a database include the following elements: 1- Author 4- Date of publication 7- Medium of database 2- Title of Article 5- Inclusive pages 8- Date of access 3- Name of periodical, volume and issue # s 6- Name of database West, Doug. "Steroids Are Harmful." At Issue: Steroids. Ed. Laura K. Egendorf. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Web. 1 Apr Barrera, Rebeca María. A Case for Bilingual Education. Scholastic Parent and Child Nov.-Dec. 2004: Academic Search Premier. Web. 1 Feb Johnson, Kirk. The Mountain Lions of Michigan. Endangered Species Update 19.2 (2002): Expanded Academic Index. Web. 26 Nov Kolata, Gina. Scientists Debating Future of Hormone Replacement. New York Times 23 Oct. 2002, late ed.: A20. LexisNexis Academic. Web. 26 Nov

4 4 Begin with the writer s name and the subject line. Then write Message to followed by the name of the recipient. End with the date of the message and the medium ( ). Lowe, Walter. Review. Message to (insert recipient of ). 15 Mar III. MULTIMEDIA SOURCES: (INCLUDING ONLINE VERSIONS) visuals, audio, audiovisuals, podcasts, and live events. Give the medium at the end of the citation: Print, Web, Radio, Television, CD, Audiocassette, Film, Videocassette, Performance, DVD, Lecture, PDF file, Microsoft Word file, or JPEG file. CARTOON Give the cartoonist s name; the title of the cartoon, in quotation marks; the label Cartoon or Comic strip ; publication information; and medium. To cite an online cartoon, instead of publication information give the title of the Web site; the sponsor or publisher; the medium; and your date of access. Sutton, Ward. Why Wait til November? Cartoon. Village Voice 7-13 July 2004: 6. Print. MAP or CHART Cite a map or chart as you would a book or a short work within a longer work. Use Map or Chart after the title. Add the medium and, for an online source, the sponsor or publisher and the date of access. Joseph, Lori, and Bob Laird. Driving While Phoning Is Dangerous. Chart. USA Today 16 Feb. 2001: 1A. Print. Serbia. Map. Syrena Maps. Syrena, 2 Feb Web. 17 Mar WORK OF ART Cite the artist s name; the title of the work, italicized; the date of composition; the medium of composition ( Lithograph on paper or Photograph ); and the institution and city in which the artwork can be found. For artworks found online, omit the medium of composition and include the title of the Web site on which you found the work, the medium, and your date of access. Constable, John. Dedham Vale Oil on canvas. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. van Gogh, Vincent. The Starry Night Museum of Mod. Art, New York. MoMA: The Museum of Modern Art. Web. 14 Jan ADVERTISEMENT Name the product or company being advertised, followed by the word Advertisement. Give publication or online information for the source in which the advertisement appears. Arbella Insurance. Advertisement. Boston.com. NY Times, n.d. Web. 3 June 2008.

5 5 PODCAST A podcast refers to digital audio content downloadable lectures, interviews, or essays- or to the method of delivery. Give delivery medium- Web, MP3 file, MPEG-4 video file- before access date. Patterson, Chris. Will School Consolidation Improve Education? Host Michael Quinn Sullivan. Texas PolicyCast. Texas Public Policy Foundation, 13 Apr MP3 file. 10 Jan ENTRY IN A WIKI A wiki is an online reference that is openly edited by its users. Treat it as a short work from a Web site. Because wiki content is, by definition, collectively edited and continually updated, do not include an author. Include the title of the entry; the name of the wiki, italicized; the sponsor or publisher of the wiki (use N.p. if there is none); the date of last update; the medium; and your date of access. Check with your instructor prior to use of any wiki. Hip Hop Music. Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 2 Mar Web. 18 Mar Negation in Languages. UniLang.org. UniLang, 22 Apr Web. 9 June ONLINE PHOTOGRAPH or CLIP ART Photographer s Name. Search Word. Photograph. Name of Site. Sponsor of Site. Date of publication. Web. Date of access. IV. OTHER SOURCES- GOVERNMENT AND LEGAL PUBLICATIONS Treat the government agency as the author, giving the name of the government followed by the name of the agency. For print sources, add the medium at the end of the entry. For online sources, follow the model for an entire Web site or a short work from a Web site. (American Literature careers unit will use this format for the occupational outlook handbook.) United States. Dept. of Labor. America s Dynamic Workforce. Washington: US Dept. of Labor, Print. United States. Dept. of Transportation. Natl. Highway Traffic Safety Administration. An Investigation of the Safety Implications of Wireless Communications in Vehicles. Natl. Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Nov Web. 20 May LEGAL SOURCE For the United States Constitution and laws in the United States Code (USC), give the title, section, or article number, as appropriate. Add the medium at the end of the entry for a print

6 6 source or before the date of access for an online source. For a US Code item, alphabetize under U, as if United States Code were spelled out. 12 USC. Sec Print. For a legislative act, begin with the name of the act, neither italicized nor in quotation marks. Then provide the act s Public Law number; its Statutes at Large volume and page numbers; its date of enactment; and the medium of publication. Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments of Pub. L Stat Oct Print. For a court case, name the first plaintiff and first defendant. Then give the law report number; the court name; the year of the decision; and information about the medium in which you found the case. In a works cited entry, the name of the case is not italicized. (The name of the case is italicized in your in-text citation.) Utah v. Evans. 536 US 452. Supreme Court of the US Supreme Court Collection. Legal Information Inst., Cornell U Law School, n.d. Web. 30 Apr CROSS REFERENCES To avoid unnecessary repetition in citing two or more works from the same collection, you may create a complete entry for the collection and cross-reference individual pieces to the entry. Agee, James. Knoxville: Summer of Oates and Atwan Print. If you list two or more works under the editor s name, however, add the title (or shortened version of it) to the cross-reference. Angelou, Maya. Pickin Em Up and Layin Em Down. Baker, Norton Print. Baker, Russell, ed. The Norton Book of Light Verse. New York: Norton, Print. ---, ed. Russell Baker s Book of American Humor. New York: Norton, Print. Hurston, Zora Neale. Squinch Owl Story. Baker, Russell Baker s Book Print. WORKS CITED LISTS Works Cited lists that appear at the conclusion of your paper should be alphabetized and doublespaced. In citing two or more books by the same author, give the author s name in the first entry only. Thereafter, in place of the name, type three hyphens and a period, skip a space and give the title and the rest of the information that is normally found in a bibliographic entry. If the person named was an editor, place a comma (not a period) after the three hyphens, skip a space, and write the appropriate abbreviation (ed.).

7 7 Examples: Author Gilbert, Sandra M. Acts of Attention: The Poems of D.H. Lawrence. Ithaca: Cornell UP, Print Emily s Bread: Poems. New York: Norton, Print. Editor Howe, Irving, ed. Classics of Modern Fiction: Ten Short Novels. 2 nd ed. New York: Harcourt, Print. ---, ed. Jewish American Stories. New York: Mentor-NAL, Print.