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Suggested Form for Bibliographies and
Works Cited
General Guidelines: Arrange your bibliography or works cited in alphabetical order according to the first word in your entry. Begin the entries at the margin and indent five (5) spaces if you carry over to additional lines. Center the heading Works Cited or Bibliography at the top of the page; it is not underlined or put in quotation marks; it goes below the pagination. Double space between each line. 1" margins Use the proper pagination in the upper right hand corner (e.g.: Sherman 5 means it is page 5 of a paper by Mrs. Sherman). You can use italics for titles of books, periodicals, and newspapers, instead of underlining them. You do not number items included in a bibliography. Change the link to a website to black ink. For a book with one author: Sobel, Robert. Coolidge: An American Enigma. Washington, D.C.: Regner Publishing, 1998. For a book with two authors: Morrison, Joan and Robert K. Morrison. From Camelot to Kent State. New York: Times Books, 1987. For a book with three authors: Marquart, James W., Sheldon Olson, and Jon Sorenson. The Rope, the Chair, and the Needle: Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990. Austin: U. of Texas Press, 1994. For a book with more than three authors, you may name only the first and et al. (“and others”): Appleby, Joyce, et. al. The American Vision. New York: Glencoe-McGraw Hill, 2003. For a book with no author: The Clinton’s of Arkansas: An Introduction by Those Who Knew Them Best. Fayetteville: U. of Arkansas Press, 1993. For a single volume reference book with an editor, but no single author: Daniel, Clifton, ed. Chronicle of America. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 1995. For an article in a multi volume work with no author: “Europe Moves West.” American Heritage Illustrated History of the United States. Ed. Richard M. Ketcham. 10 vols. New York: Choice Publishing, 1988. For an article in a special subject encyclopedia with the author of the article given: Van Broekhoven, Deborah. “Abolition and Antislavery.” Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. Paul Finkelman. 3 vols. New York: Scribner’s, 2001. For an article in a multi volume work with author given: Lindsay, John V. “New National Cities.” 1971. Annals of America. Ed. Mortimer Adler. Vol. 10. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. 1974. Madison, James. “A Viable Republic Can Be Large and Diverse.” 1787. Opposing Viewpoints in American History. Ed. William Dudley. Vol. 1. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1996. For signed article in a newspaper: Schmaler, Tracy. "Dean Bows Out." Rutland Herald 6 September 2001: 1. For an unsigned article in a newspaper: “2000 Census Bugged by Mail Mixups.” Burlington Free Press 9 March 2001: 1. For a signed article in a magazine: Kaplan, David A. "The Accidental President." Newsweek 17 September 2001: 29-34. For an unsigned article in a magazine: “A Modern Media Marriage.” Newsweek 27 March 2000:49 For a Letter to the Editor: Anderson, William. Letter. Rutland Herald 6 September 2001: A8 For a graph, chart, or map: These are usually part of articles, so use the format for the proper article. For online data bases: See the MLA Handbook, sixth edition. If you are using articles from the SIRS or Gale data bases, they have information on the correct format for citing these articles. Do not confuse the citation (parenthetical note) with the Works Cited/Bibliography information.: example from the History Resource Center "U.S. Entry into World War I." History in Dispute, Vol. 9: World War I: Second Series. Dennis Showalter, ed. St. James Press, 2002.
Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HistRC/ A sample works cited page, using these sources follows. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sherman 5 Works Cited Anderson, William. Letter. Rutland Herald 6 September 2001: A8. Appleby, Joyce, et. al. The American Vision. New York: Glencoe-McGraw Hill, 2003. The Clinton’s of Arkansas: An Introduction by Those Who Knew Them Best. Fayetteville: U.
of Arkansas Press, 1993.
Daniel, Clifton, ed. Chronicle of America. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 1995. “Europe Moves West.” American Heritage Illustrated History of the United States. Ed.
Richard M. Ketcham. 10 vols. New York: Choice Publishing, 1988.
Kaplan, David A. "The Accidental President." Newsweek 17 September 2001: 29-34. Lindsay, John V. “New National Cities.” 1971. Annals of America. Ed. Mortimer Adler. Vol. 10. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. 1974.
Madison, James. “A Viable Republic Can Be Large and Diverse.” 1787. Opposing Viewpoints in American History. Ed. William Dudley. Vol. 1. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1996. Marquart, James W., Sheldon Olson, and Jon Sorenson. The Rope, the Chair, and the Needle: Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990. Austin: U. of Texas Press, 1994. “A Modern Media Marriage.” Newsweek 27 March 2000:49. Morrison, Joan and Robert K. Morrison. From Camelot to Kent State. New York: Times Books, 1987. Schmaler, Tracy. "Dean Bows Out." Rutland Herald 6 September 2001: 1. Sobel, Robert. Coolidge: An American Enigma. Washington, D.C.: Regner Publishing, 1998. “2000 Census Bugged by Mail Mixups.” Burlington Free Press 9 March 2001: 1. "U.S. Entry into World War I." History in Dispute, Vol. 9: World War I: Second Series. Dennis
Showalter, ed. St. James Press, 2002. Reproduced in
History Resource Center.
Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HistRC/ Van Broekhoven, Deborah. “Abolition and Antislavery.” Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. Paul Finkelman. 3 vols. New York: Scribner’s, 2001. |
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