Works Cited or

Bibliography Format Sheet

A Works Cited List, or a Bibliography, is a list of sources (books, encyclopedias, web sites, etc…) that a student uses to gain information for a paper or project. It is usually found at the end of a research paper or essay and the sources are listed in alphabetical order by the author’s last name. A Works Cited List is a crucial part of giving credit for information borrowed from books, web sites or other sources. The sources of direct quotations, paraphrased material, original ideas, and photographs should be included in a Works Cited List. The format used to list sources in a Works Cited List is shown below.

BASIC FORMAT FOR SOURCES IN PRINT :

Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher,

Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.

 If no author is given for a book or article, start with and alphabetize by the title. Article titles should be in quotation marks, book titles in italics.

 Specific Examples:

BOOK WITH ONE AUTHOR:

Tillich, Paul. Systematic Energy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,

1963. Print.

 

BOOK WITH TWO AUTHORS:

Houghton, Walter E., and Sally Jeffreys. Energy-Water. Cambridge:

Harvard University Press, 1959. Print

BOOK WITH NO NAMED AUTHOR:

Energy-Wind . London: J. Watts, 1977. Print.

SIGNED ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE:

Chambers, Ralph. “Energy-Thermal.” The World Book Encyclopedia.

1979 ed. Print.

 

UNSIGNED ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE:

“Solar Energy.” Illustrated Science Encyclopedia. 1997 ed. Print.

MAGAZINE OR NEWSPAPER ARTICLE:

Johnson, Don. “Working with Solar Power.” Time. 20 Nov. 2000: 70-71. Print.

 

SOUND RECORDING:

U2. All That You Can’t Leave Behind. Interscope, 2000. CD.

 

VIDEO RECORDING OR FILM:

Places in the Heart . Dir. Robert Benton. Perf. Sally Field, Danny Glover, Ed

Harris, and John Malcovich. Paramount, 1984. DVD.

 


BASIC FORMAT FOR ELECTRONIC SOURCES:

Author or Compiler’s Name. Name of Page. Date of posting/revision. Name of organization associated with the Site.

Medium of Publication. Date of Access.

If no author, editor, or compiler is given for a web page or electronic source, start with and alphabetize by title. Whenever the information is available, list both the date material was created, posted or revised and the date you accessed the information. Use the abbreviation n.p. if no publisher is available, n.d. if no date is available, and n.pag. if page numbers are called for, but not available.

Use of URLs in MLA citations is now optional. For teachers that still wish to require the use of URLs , MLA suggests that the URL appear in angle brackets after the date of access.

 

Specific examples:

WEB PAGE:

Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. 28 Nov. 2003. Purdue

University. Web. 10 May 2006.

ARTICLE ON A WEB SITE:

"How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow.com. eHow. n.d. Web. 24 Feb. 2009.

ARTICLE IN ONLINE VERSION OF PRINT JOURNAL:

Wheelis, Mark. “Investigating Disease Outbreaks.” Nursing. March 2000:

27-33. Academic OneFile. Web. 5 May 2006.

ARTICLE FROM ONLINE ONLY JOURNAL:

Dolby, Nadine. “Research in Youth Culture and Policy.” Social Work and Society:

The International Online-Only Journal 6.2 (2008): n. pag. Web. 20 May

2009.

E-MAIL:

Fiedler, Bill. “Re: Online Tutoring.” Message to author.

1 Sep. 2001. E-mail.

 

LISTSERV OR BLOG:

CrazyKid12 [Bill Smith]. “The Problem with Teachers.” Kids Complain listserv.

Kids Complain Group. 2 Jan 2010. Web. 14 Jan. 2010.

 

WEB ONLY PHOTOGRAPH:

brandychloe. "Great Horned Owl Family." Photograph. Webshots. American

Greetings, 22 May 2006. Web. 5 Nov. 2009.

IMAGE:

Klee, Paul. Twittering Machine. 1922. Museum of Modern Art, New York.

The Artchive. Web. 22 May 2006.

 

 

More information on writing a bibliography may be found online at this web site:

The Purdue OWL. Purdue U Writing Lab, 2010. Web. 1 Jan 2011. <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/>.

OR ask for help from the library staff!

 

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