A list of Works Cited or Bibliography should appear at the end of a research paper. It provides publication information for each source used in your paper. Alphabetize the list by the last names of the authors, editors, or title if there is no author. Do not indent the first line of each work, but indent any additional lines.
CITING PRINT PUBLICATIONS
A Book by a
Single Author:
Boyce, David
George. The Irish Question and
British Politics. 2nd ed.
Mead,
Alice. Junebug.
A Book by Two
or Three Authors: (separated by commas)
Collier, James
L., and Christopher Collier. War
Comes to Willy Freeman.
Rabkin, Eric
S., Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander. Eds. No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and
Dystopian Fiction. Carbonale:
A Book by More
Than Three Authors: (use only the first author and then et al)
Quirk,
Randolph, et al. A Comprehensive
Grammar of the English Language.
London: Longman Press, 1985.
A Book with an Editor
Kitchen,
Judith, and Mary Paumier Jones, eds. In Short: A Collection of Brief
Creative Nonfiction. New York:
Norton, 1996.
Unknown Author
or Editor
Oxford Essential World Atlas. New York: Oxford Press, 1996.
An Article in
a Reference Book (encyclopedia, dictionary, etc.)
"Mandarin." The Encyclopedia Americana. 15th ed. 1987.
“Sonata.” Encyclopedia Britannica. 15th ed. 1997.
A Work in an
Anthology (or a work in a collection of works)
Hansberry,
Lorraine. “A Raisin in the Sun.” Black Theater: A Twentieth-Century
Collection of the Works of Its Best Playwrights. Ed. Lindsay
Patterson. New York: Dodd, 1971. 221-76.
Malouf,
David. “The Kyogle Line.” The Oxford Book of Travel Stories. Ed. Patricia Craig. Oxford:
Oxford Press, 1996. 390-96.
An Article in
a Magazine
Cheuse,
Alan. “Narrative Painting and Pictorial
Fiction.” Antioch Review 55 (1997): 277-91.
Will,
George. "In Defense of the Mother
Tongue." Newsweek. 8 July 1985: 78-79.
An Article in a Newspaper
Eagan,
Matt. "Huskies Can Get Their
Share." Hartford Courant 27
Feb. 2001, eastern ed.: C1+.
Knox, Richard
A. “Please Don’t Dial and Drive.” Boston
Globe 13 Feb. 1997: A1+.
“Marines
Charged in Assault.” Houston
Chronicle 14 Feb. 1998: 6A.
A Video
Recording or Digital Video Disc
It's A
Wonderful Life. Dir. Frank Capra.
Perf. James Stewart, Donna Reed,
Lionel Barrymore,
and Thomas Mitchell. 1946.
DVD. Republic, 1998.
A Television
or Radio Program
“Frederick
Douglass.” Civil War Journal. Narr. Danny Glover. Dir. Craig Haffner. Arts and
Entertainment Network. 6 Apr. 1993.
A Lecture, a
Speech, an Address, or a Reading
Hyman,
Earle. Reading of Shakespeare’s Othello.
Symphony Space, New York. 28 Mar. 1999.
An Interview
Conducted by You (only include
the name of the person interviewed)
Rowling, J.K. Telephone interview. 22 July 2001.
Poussaint, Alvin F. Personal interview. 16 May 2001.
A Primary
Document (a first-hand
account from the time period, such as a letter)
As a general rule, provide
enough information for a reader to find the document. As in the following example:
Oakley,
Annie. Letter to John Doe. 20 June 1900.
Charles Fremont Papers. Georgia
Historical Society, Atlanta.
CITING
ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS
Cite online sources like print sources but include the network address (URL), the date assigned to the material, and the date of access.
A Professional Site
Romance
Languages and Literatures Home Page.
1 Jan. 1997. Dept. of Romance
Languages,
University of Chicago. 8 July 1998
<http://humanities.uchicago.edu/romance/>.
An Article in an Online Periodical
Markoff,
John. "The Voice on the Phone Is
Not Human, But It's Helpful." New
York Times on the
Web 21 June 1998. 25 June 1999.
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/06/biztech/articles/21voice.html>.
A Painting, Sculpture, or Photograph
Delacroix,
Eugene. Death of Ophelia. 1853.
Louvre, Paris. Shakespeare
Illustrated. Ed. Harry
Rusche. Aug. 1996. Emory University. 77
Apr. 1997
<http://www.cc.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Delacroix.Ophelia.html>.
A CD-ROM
“Picasso,
Pablo.” The 2001 Grolier Mulitmedia
Encylopedia. CD-ROM. Danbury: Grolier, 2000.