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Preparing the Works Cited List:
A Guide for Students

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How to Write Your Works Cited List

Part of research is keeping track of where you get your information. This not only helps you during the research process; it also shows your teacher all the work you did!

When you hand in a research project, you should also hand in a list of all the materials you used – books, encyclopedias, web sites, videos, etc. This is called the Works Cited List.

The works cited list:

• Is in alphabetical order (by the first word in the entry)
• Is formatted with a “hanging indent”
  (In MS Word, this is under the format pull-down menu, select “paragraph,” and is under “special”.)
• Titles of articles from encyclopedias or magazines are put in quotation marks
• Titles of books, encyclopedias and magazines are either underlined or put in italics.

You need to include:

WHO wrote the book or article or website? (Author’s last name first, then first name)

WHAT is it called? (Title of Book / Article / Webpage)

WHERE was it published? (City and name of publisher / URL)

WHEN was it published? (Copyright date / issue date / last updated date & access date)

 Sometimes, not all the information is available. For example, some encyclopedias and many web pages do not list authors, so just go to the next part of the works cited list entry.

 Follow this format for books:

Lastname, Firstname. Book Title. City of Publication: Name of Publisher, Year Published.

 Follow this format for encyclopedias:

 Lastname, Firstname. "Article Title." Encyclopedia Title, edition.

 Follow this format for magazines:

 Lastname, Firstname. "Article Title." Magazine Title issue date: page(s).

 Follow this format for websites:

 Lastname, Firstname. "Title of Web Page." Title of Website. <url>. Date Accessed.

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Preparing the Works Cited List:

A Guide for Students 

Print Sources

Book - One Author

 Woog, Adam. Elvis Presley. San Diego: Lucent, 1997. 

Book - Two Authors

Delany, Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany. Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years. New York: Dell, 1992. 

Book - Three or More Authors

Lass, Abraham H., et. al. The Dictionary of Classical, Biblical, & Literary Allusions. New York: Fawcett, 1988.

Book - No Author’s Name Given

 A History of The American West. Los Angeles: Maverick, 1995.

Book - With Editor

 Henderson, Bill, ed. Rotten Reviews: A Literary Companion. New York: Penguin, 1987.

Chapter or Essay From a Book

Norman, Geoffrey. “Hunting Keeps the Wildlife Population in Check.” Animal Rights. San Diego: Greenhaven, 1999. 78-85.

Book From a Multivolume Work

Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Oxford Sherlock Holmes. Ed. Owen Dudley Edwards. 9 vols. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. 

Encyclopedias

(With familiar encyclopedias, you only need the article title, encyclopedia title, edition [if stated] and year published.)

Encyclopedia - Unsigned Article

 “Westward Movement.” The World Book Encyclopedia. 1989 ed.

Encyclopedia - Signed Article

 Ewing, Rodney C. "Manazite.” The World Book Encyclopedia. 1996 ed.

Magazine Article

 Smith, Gene. “Lost Bird: The Infant Survivor of Wounded Knee….” American Heritage April 1996: 38-40. 

Newspaper Article

 Manegold, Catherine S. “Becoming a Land of the Smoke-Free, Ban by Ban.” New York Times 22 Mar. 1994, late ed.: A1+. 

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NON-PRINT SOURCES 

Interview Conducted by Yourself

 Bowie, David. Personal interview. 24 Mar. 1996. 

Interview Conducted by Another Person

 Updike, John. Interview with Scott Simon. Weekend Edition. National Public Radio. WBUR, Boston. 2 Apr. 1994.

CD-ROM

“Lure of the West.” Smithsonian’s America: An Interactive Exhibition of American History and Culture. CD- ROM. RunTime. 1994.

“Texas.” Grolier’s Multimedia Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. 1995 ed.

ON-LINE DATABASES:

 Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of work." Article's original source and publication date: page numbers. Product name. Publisher. Date accessed. <Electronic Address, or URL, of the source>.

 

 EBSCO MiddleSearch +

Tator, Charles, James D. Carson, and Robert Cushman. "Hockey Injuries of the Spine in Canada, 1966- 1996." CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal Vol.162 Issue 6, 03/21/2000, 787. Available from Academic Search Elite .  EBSCOhost. Accessed 15 November 2000. <http://search.epnet.com/>.

SIRS Researcher

Author. "Article title." Original Source of Article Date of Original Source: page numbers. Name of the Database Used. Name of the Database Publisher. Date of Access. <URL of service's homepage>. 

Sears, Stephen W. “The First News Blackout.” Civil War Chronicles Winter 1994: 16-23. SIRS Researcher. Web version. SIRS Knowledge Source. Accessed 2 November 2002. <http://sks.sirs.com/>. 

Frick, Robert. "Investing in Medical Miracles." Kiplinger's Personal Finance Feb. 1999: 80-87. SIRS Researcher. Web version. SIRS Knowledge Source.Accessed 10 February 2000. <http://sks.sirs.com/>.

Opposing Viewpoints

Califano Jr.,  Joseph A. "Prisons Should Rehabilitate Inmates"  Prisons. Bryan J. Grapes, Ed. Current Controversies Series. Greenhaven Press, 2000. Reprinted, with permission, from "A Punishment-Only Policy," by Joseph A. Califano Jr., America, February 21, 1998. Reproduced in Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. 2004. Accessed 3 February 2004. <http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/OVRC>.

Edward Abbey.” DISCovering Authors (1999). Student Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group. Accessed 3 September 2000. <http://www.galenet.com/servlet/SRC>.
 

Television or Radio Program

 “Frederick Douglass.” Civil War Journal. Narr. Danny Glover. Dir. Craig Haffner. Arts & Entertainment Network. 6 Apr. 1993. 

Videocassette

 It’s a Wonderful Life. Dir. Frank Capra. Perf. James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, and Thomas Mitchell. RKO, 1946. 

Sound Recording

 Delany, Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth. Having Our Say: The Delany Sister’ First 100 Years. 1993. Read by Whoopi Goldberg. Audio cassette. Audio Renaissance Tapes, 1994. 

Internet 

Lastname, Firstname. "Title of Web Page." Title of Website. <url>. Date Accessed.

Epperson, James F. "Causes of the Civil War." James F. Epperson Homepage. <http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/causes.html>. Accessed 15 March 2004.

“Joe DiMaggio Yankee Legend Dead at 84.” Cable News Network Home Page <http:// cnnsi.com/baseball/mlb/news/1999/03/08/dimaggio_obit>. Accessed 8 March 1999.
 

Sample Works Cited List

Able, Deborah. Hate Groups.   Hillside, N.J.: Enslow Publishers, 1995.

Delany, Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth. Having Our Say: The Delany Sister’ First 100 Years. 1993. Read by Whoopi Goldberg. Audio cassette. Audio Renaissance Tapes, 1994. 

"Dog Fetches Phone, Saves Life." Cable News Network Homepage <:http://cnn.com/US/9902/05/ fringe/hero.dog>. Accessed 10 February 1999.

Drummond, Daniel F. “Bill would bar EVMS stem-cell research.” The Washington Times
        22 January 2002: 3. InfoTrac Student Edition. Web version. Gale Research.
        Accessed 5 April 2002. <http://web3.infotrac.galegroup.com/>.

“Frederick Douglass.” Civil War Journal. Narr. Danny Glover. Dir. Craig Haffner. Arts & Entertainment Network. 6 Apr. 1993.

 Henderson, Bill, ed. Rotten Reviews: A Literary Companion. New York: Penguin, 1987.

Sears, Stephen W. “The First News Blackout.” Civil War Chronicles Winter 1994: 16-23. SIRS Researcher. Web version. SIRS Knowledge Source. Accessed 2 November 2002. <http://sks.sirs.com/>. 

Smith, Gene. “Lost Bird: The Infant Survivor of Wounded Knee….” American Heritage April 1996: 38-40.