Bibliography and Works Cited

Books

General Example
Author(s). Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.

One author

Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. Denver: MacMurray, 1999.

More than one author

Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Learner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring.

Boston: Allyn, 2000.

Book or article with no author named

Visual Dictionary of the Earth. New York: DK Publishing, 1993.

Encyclopedia article

With author

Gilmore, Jeff. “Nunavut.” World Book Encyclopedia. Chicago: World Book, Inc,
2000 ed.

Without author

“Transportation.” Compton’s Encyclopedia. Lombard, IL: Success Publishing

Group,2002 ed.

Article in a periodical (magazine or newspaper)

General example
Author(s). “Title of Article.” Title of Source, day month year: page numbers.

Magazine

Schultz, Eric. “Medic.” Cobblestone, September, 2007: 28-29.

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Newspaper

Sledge, Colby. “Colleges Try to Catch Textbook Thieves.” The Tennessean, 26

September 2007: A1, 3.

Web sources
If no author is given for a web page or electronic source, alphabetize by the title.

Website

General example
Author(s). Name of Page. Date of Posting/Update. Name of institution/

organization affiliated with the site. Date of Access <electronic address or

URL>.

Brief Profile of Abraham Lincoln. 2007. Abraham Lincoln Online. 26 Sep.

2007 <http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/education/glance.htm>.

Article from online database

"Civil War, U.S." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. 2007. Grolier Online. 26 Sep. 2007

<http://gme.grolier.com/cgi-bin/article?assetid=0064040-0>.