Please check with your teacher about preferred citation style, especially electronic where the rules have not fully crystallized yet.
Preparing the List of "Works Cited"
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The list of "Works Cited" is you bibliography--a list of sources used in writing your research paper.
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It appears at the end of the paper, is double-spaced within and between sources (unlike the examples on this page), and is usually arranged alphabetically by the author's last name.
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Sources without authors are arranged alphabetically by title within the same list (ignoring initials "A", "An", or "The" in titles).
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The first line of each entry is flush with the left margin; second and succeeding lines of entries are indented five spaces.
General Format: Author Last Name, First Name(s). Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Date of Publication.
Book: Single Author
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. 2nd ed. New York:
Doubleday, 1961.
Do not specify the edition (abbreviated 'ed.') if it is a first edition. If it is a second edition or later, or if it is some special kind of edition, such as a revised edition (abbreviated "Rev. ed.'), then specify it.
Book: Two or More Authors
Scott, Douglas D., P. Willey, and Melissa A. Connor.
They Died With Custer: Soldiers' Bones from the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Norman: U of Oklahoma Press, 1998.
For more than three authors, you may name only the fist, followed by et al., or you may give the names of all of the authors in the order in which they are listed on the title page.
An Encyclopedia Article
Goodman, Benny. "Clarinet." The Encyclopedia Americana. 1993 ed.
"African Art." The New Encyclopedia Britannica: Macropaedia. 15th ed. 1992.
When citing less familiar encyclopedias, give full publication information.
Gardet, Louis. "God." The Encyclopedia of Religion. Ed. Mircea Eliade. 16 vols.
New York: Macmillan,1987.
Entry From a Dictionary, Directory, or Other Alphabetically Arranged Reference Book
"Escrow." Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary. 10th ed. 1996.
General Format: Author Last Name, First Name(s). "Title of Book Chapter or Work in Other Collection." Title of Book, Anthology, or Collection. Place of Publication: Publisher, Date of Publication. Page Numbers.
A Work in an Anthology or Compilation
Ehrenpreis, Irvin. "The Cistern and the Fountain: Art and Reality in Pope and
Gray." Studies in Criticism and Aesthetics, 1660-1800: Studies in Honor of
Samuel Holt Monk. Ed. Howard Anderson and John S. Shea. Minneapolis: U
of Minnesota Press, 1967. 156-75.
A Previously Published Article Reprinted in a Collection
Gorra, Michael. "Laughter and Bloodshed." The Hudson Review 37 (1984): 151-
64. Rpt in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Thomas Votteler. Vol 8. Detroit: Gale,
1991. 16-17.
A Multi-Volume Work
Bowen, James. A History of Western Education. 3 vols. New York: St. Martin's
Press, 1972-81.
General Format: Author Last Name, First Name(s). "Title of Article." Title of Magazine Day Month Year of Publication: Page Numbers or Inital Page Number if Non-Consecutive.
Work Cited Is From one Volume only of a Multi-Volume Work
Bradford, William. "Of Plymouth Plantation." 1650. The Annals of America. Ed.
Mortimer J. Adler et. al. Vol. 1. Chicago: Britannica, 1968. 65-86. 22 vols.
Article from a Weekly Magazine
Dvorak, John C., "Ode to Napster, Music's Last Hope." PC Magazine. 16 Mar.
2004: 51.
For magazines published daily, weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly, omit the volume and issue numbers, even if these are given in the magazine. For monthly magazines, give the month and year; give day, month, and year for magazines published more frequently. If the article you are citing is not printed on consecutive pages, give only the first page number and a plus sign, e.g., 45+.
Government Publications
United State. Cong. Senate. Committee of Environment and Public Works.
Hearing on the Clean Air Act: Proposed Regional Haze Regulations. 105th
Cong., 2en sess., S. Hrg. 105-667. Washington: GPO, 1998.
Periodical Article in a Continuously Paged Scholarly Journal
Majewski, Janice and Lonnie Bunch. "The Expanding Definition of Diversity:
Accessibility and Disability Culture Issues in Museum Exhibitions." Curator. 41
(1998): 153-160.
Article in a Scholarly Journal that Pages Each Issue Separately
Seed, John. "An English Objectivist? Basil Bunting's Other England." Chicago
Review 44.3-4 (1998): 114-26.
If a journal uses only issue numbers, treat the issue number as a volume number.
General Format: Author Last Name, First Name(s). "Title of Article." Title of Newspaper (City of Publication if not in Title). Day Month Year of Publication, Edition: Page Numbers or Initial Page Number if Non-Consecutive.
Article From a Daily Newspaper
Bragg, Rick. "One Killed and 3 Are Wounded at New Orleans School". The New
York Times.15 April. 2003: A12.
An Editorial
Dobbins, James. "A Way Out for Haiti". Editorial. The New York Times. 19 Feb.
2004: A23.
A Review
Ascherson, Neal. "On the Edge of Catastrophe." Rev. of Secrets, by Nuruddin
Farah. New York Review of Books. 4 March 1999: 10-11.
Kauffman, Stanley. "Star-Crossed Lovers." Rev. of Shakespeare in Love, dir. John
Madden. New Republic 4 Jan. 1999: 26-7.
Genreal Format: Interviewee Last Name, First Name(s). Interview, Type of Interview or "Title of Interview if Given." By Interviewer First Name Last Name if Important. Publication Information Following the Appropriate Format Above: Page Numbers if Appropriate.
Interview That You Conducted
Duffy, Thomas. Personal interview. 25 Feb. 2004
Turner, Ted. Telephone interview. 11 Oct. 2003.
Interview Conducted by Someone Else
Hatch, Orin and Henry Hyde. Interview with George Will, Linda Douglass, and
Cokie Roberts. ABC This Week. ABC. WTNH, New Haven, CT. 13 Apr.
1997.
(Provide in this order, omitting what is not available or relevant)
General Format: Author Last Name, First Name (s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal Volume. Issue-if needed (Year or Date of Publication): Page Numbers or Beginning Page. Title of Database. Name of Service. Subscribing Library, Location of Library if Needed to Identify it. Day Month Year of Access <URL of Database Search Page>.
Sources Retrieved From the GaleNet Databases
Gress, Jesse. "The top ten AC/DC riffs of all time." Guitar Player. 40. 9
(Sept 2006): 90(8). Student Resource Center - Gold. Thomson Gale.
Enfield High School. 24 Oct. 2006
Knitzer, Jane. "Rebuilding the American dream: the imperative of
developing a new anti-poverty agenda." Conscience. 27. 3
(Autumn 2006): 22(3). Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.
Thomson Gale. Enfield High School. 24 Oct. 2006
If you access the GaleDatabases from home you would put your home address instead of Enfield High School. The date and URL would still be included.
When citing material from an online source, if it is something that originally appeared in print, cite is as you would cite the print source: then give information about how to locate it online, including the date you accessed it and the URL.
What's Killing the Sea Otters." Time. Oct 2, 2006 v168 i14 p62. 24 October
2006 < http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/SciRC >.
General Format: Author Last Name, First Name(s). "Title: Subtile of Part of Web Page if Appropriate." Title: Subtitle of Part of Web Page if Appropriate." Title: Subtitle: Section of Page if appropriate. Sponsoring/Publishing Agency if Given. Additional Significant Descriptive Information. Date of Electronic Publication or Other Such Date, Such as Last Updated. Day Month Year of Access <URL>.
World Wide Web Page
"Schistomiasis in U.S. Peace Corps Volunteers--Malawi, 1992." MMWR:
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 30 Jul. 1993:565-570. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. 26 Jan. 1996.
Welcome to Biology. 15 Apr. 1999. Dept. of Biology, Georgia Southern U. 8 June 1999
<http://www.bio.gasou.edu/>.
An E-Main Communication
Paulson, Barbara. "Exhibition Catalogs." E-mail to Rebecca Ziegler. 8 June 1999.
General Format for Films and Videos: Title. Director. Name of Director. Performer(s) First Name(s) Last Name(s). Distributor or Publisher, Year of Release.
A Film
Romeo and Juliet. By William Shakespeare. Dir. Franco Zeffirelli. Prod. Anthony
Havelock-Allen and John Brabourne. Perf. Olivia Hussey, Leonard Whiting, Milo
O'Shea, Michael York, and Pat Heywood. Paramount Pictures, 1968.
Video Recording
Romeo and Juliet. Dir. Franco Zeffirelli. 1968. Videocassette. Paramount Home Gideo,
1980.
Genearl Format for Sound Recordings: Group, Artist or Composer Last Name, First Name(s). "Title of Song." Title of Recording. Tyoe of Recording if not CD. Manufacturer. Year of Issue.
From CD
Anonymous 4. "Wayfaring Stranger." American Angels: Songs of Hope, Redemption and
Glory. Harmonia Mundi USA, 2004.
Performance from a DVD
Begitchev, W.P., and V. Geltzer. Swan Lake: Ballett in Four Acts. Chor. Rudolf Nureyev.
Music by Piotr I. Tchaikovsky. Perf. Margot Fonteyn, Nureyev, and Vienna State Opera
Ballet. Vienna Symphony Orch. Cond. John Lanchbery. 1966. Dve. PolyGram Video,
1998.
In citing a film, give the title, the director, the distributor, and the year. You may also include in your citation any other credits (e.g. screenwriter, producer, performers) that are relevant to your discussion of the film. If your discussion focuses on a particular person's contribution to the film, begin the citation with that person's name rather than with the film title. e.g.
Zeffirelli, Franco, dir. Romeo and Juliet. By William
Shakespeare. Paramount Pictures, 1968.