Thursday, July 8, 2010

Works Cited--Book Sources

REMEMBER TO INDENT ALL WORKS CITED LINES AFTER THE FIRST LINE. DUE TO THIS WEBSITE'S FORMAT, THE EXAMPLES BELOW ARE NOT INDENTED.

Books

Structure
  • Last name of author, First name of author. Title of book. Place published: Publisher, Year published. Print.

Example--One Author

  • Forman, James D. Becca's Story. New York: Scribner, 2003. Print.

Example--Two Authors

  • Bartlett, Donald L., and James B. Steele. Forevermore: Nuclear Waste in America. New York: Norton, 2004. Print.

Example--Three Authors

  • Aiken, Michael, Lewis A. Ferman, and Harold L. Sheppard. Economic Failure, Alienation, and Extremism. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan, 2005. Print.

Example--More than Three Authors

  • Marine, April, et al. Internet: Getting Started. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2008. Print.

Example--No Author

  • A Year of Reading. New York: Avon-Flare, 2001. Print.

Example--Editor instead of Author

  • Fadiman, Clifton, Ed. The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection. Boston: Houghton, 2007. Print.

Example--Bible

  • The New Jerusalem Bible. Ed. Henry Wansbrough. New York: Doubleday, 2008. Print.

Example--Work in an Anthology (Collection of Works)

  • Whiteman, Roberta Hill. The White Land. Harper's Anthology of 20th Centry Native American Poetry. Ed. Duane Niatum. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 2007. Print.

Example--Almanac--Yearbook

  • "Farm Real Estate Debt." World Almanac and Book of Facts 2005. New York: Scripps Howard, 2006. Print.

Example--Encyclopedia--No Author

  • "Liberty Bell." Compton's Encyclopedia. 2008. Print.

Example--Encyclopedia--One Author

  • Hopkinson, Ralph G. "Electric Lighting." World Book Encyclopedia. 2002. Print.

Example--Pamphlet/Brochure--One Author

  • Grayson, George W. The North American Free Trade Agreement. New York: Foreign Policy Association, 2009. Print.

Example--Dictionary

  • "Noon." Def. 4b. Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 1989. Print.