How to Cite Sources

WRITING A DETAILED BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT

In writing your bibliographical account, arrange all items in alphabetical
order according to the last name of the authors.
Example:
Benko, Stephen. The Virgin Goddess: Studies in the Pagan and
Christian Roots of
Mariology. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1993.
Bordo, Susan. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and
the Body. California: University of California,
1993.
Bolen, Jean Shinoda. Goddesses in Every Woman: A New Psychology of
Women. New
York: Harper Collins, 1981.
Chee, Tham Seong, ed. Essays on Literature and Society in Southeast
Asia: Political and
Sociological Perspectives. Singapore: Singapore University, 1981.
Gaspar, Karl. The Masses are Messiah: Contemplating the Filipino
Soul.
Quezon City: Institute of Spirituality in Asia, 2010.

ON BOOKS
A. BOOKS, SINGLE AUTHOR
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs
(AUTHORS SURNAME FIRST, FIRST NAME SECOND)
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls.
(BOOKS TITLE, ITALICIZED)
New York:
(PLACE)
Random House,
(PUBLISHER)
1997.
(YEAR OF PUBLICATION)

Example:
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. The Body Project: An Intimate History of
American Girls. New
York: Random House, 1997.
B. BOOKS, SINGLE AUTHOR, AUTHOR AS EDITOR
De Guzman, Odine, ed.
(AUTHORS SURNAME FIRST, FIRST NAME SECOND, ADD THE
ABBREVIATION ed.)
Body Politics: Essays on Cultural Representation of Womens Bodies
(BOOKS TITLE, ITALICIZED)
Quezon City:
(PLACE)
University of the Philippines,
(PUBLISHER)
2002.
(YEAR OF PUBLICATION)
Example:
De Guzman, Odine, ed. Body Politics: Essays on Cultural
Representation of Womens Bodies. Quezon City: University of the
Philippines, 2002.
C. BOOKS, TWO AUTHORS

Dallen, James and Joseph Favazza

(AUTHORS SURNAME FIRST, FIRST NAME SECOND; SECOND
AUTHOR FOLLOWS THE FIRST NAME-SURNAME SEQUENCE)
Removing the Barriers: The Practice of Reconciliation.
(BOOKS TITLE, ITALICIZED)
Illinois:
(PLACE)
Liturgy Training Publications,
(PUBLISHER)
1991.
(YEAR OF PUBLICATION)
Example:

Dallen, James and Joseph Favazza. Removing the Barriers: The Practice
of
Reconciliation. Illinois: Liturgy Training
Publications, 1991.

D. BOOKS, TWO AUTHORS, AUTHORS AS EDITOR

SAME AS EXAMPLE A, ONLY ADD THE ABBREVIATION eds.
Example:
Jose, Mary Dorothy and Atoy M. Navarro, eds. Kababaihan sa
Kalinangan at
Kasaysayang Pilipino. Quezon City: C & E
Publishing Inc., 2010.

E. BOOKS, THREE AUTHORS

ALMOST THE SAME WITH EXAMPLE C, only with the inclusion of
a third author.
Example:
Heinz, Schurman, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, and Hans Urs Von
Balthasa. Principles of
Christian Morality. St. Ignatius Press, 1986.
F. BOOKS, MORE THAN THREE AUTHORS
ALMOST THE SAME WITH
INCLUSION OF et. al.

EXAMPLE

A,

ONLY

WITH

Example:
Habib, Maria, et. al. A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to
Present.
Oxford:
Blackwell, 2008.

THE

ON ARTICLES AND JOURNALS

G. ARTICLES OR ESSAYS WITHIN A BOOK
Althusser, Louis.
(AUTHORS SURNAME FIRST, FIRST NAME SECOND)
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus (Notes towards
Investigation).
(ESSAYS TITLE)
In The Norton Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism,
(IN PLUS THE BOOKS TITLE, ITALICIZED)
ed. Vincent B. Leitch
(NAME OF EDITOR)
W.W. Norton and Company,
(PUBLISHER)
2001.
(YEAR OF PUBLICATION)

an

Example:
Althusser, Louis. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus (Notes
towards an
Investigation). In The Norton Anthology of
Literary Theory and Criticism, gen.
ed. Vincent B. Leitch, 14831509. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2001.
H. ARTICLE IN JOURNAL
Hornedo, Florentino H.
(AUTHORS SURNAME FIRST, FIRST NAME SECOND)
Todays Native Was Yesterdays Visitor: Filipinicity in Folk and Popular
Literature
(ARTICLES TITLE)
UST Journal of Graduate Research
(JOURNALS TITLE, ITALICIZED)
18, no.1
(VOLUME NUMBER AND ISSUE NUMBER)
(1998)
(YEAR OF PUBLICATION)
47-60.
(PAGE REFERENCE)
Example:

Hornedo, Florentino H. Todays Native Was Yesterdays Visitor:

Filipinicity in
Folk
and Popular Literature. UST
Journal of Graduate Research 18, no.1 (1998):
47-60.

ON THESIS AND DISSERTATIONS

I. THESIS OR DISSERTATION
Wigley, John Jack G.
(AUTHORS SURNAME FIRST, FIRST NAME SECOND)

"Fictionalized Bodies: the Representations of the Female Body in the Short

Stories of Cecilia Manguerra-Brainard."

(TITLE OF THESIS OR DISSERTATION)

M.A. Thesis,

(CLASSIFICATION OF THESIS OR DISSERTATION)

University of Santo Tomas
(NAME OF ACADEMIC INSTITUTION)
2004
(YEAR OF PUBLICATION)
Example:
Wigley, John Jack G. "Fictionalized Bodies: the Representations of the Female
Body in the
Short Stories of Cecilia Manguerra-Brainard." M.A. Thesis,
University of Santo
Tomas, 2004.

ON ELECTRONIC OR ONLINE SOURCES

J. ELECTRONIC SOURCE WITH SPECIFIED AUTHOR
Odal, Grace P.
(AUTHORS SURNAME FIRST, FIRST NAME SECOND)
Some Problems in Determining the Origin of the Philippine Word
'Mutya' or 'Mutia.' (TITLE OF ARTICLE, ITALICIZED)
Retrieved October 1, 2012
(DATE RETRIEVED)
from http://www.sil.org/asia/philippines/ical/papers/odal-devoramutya.pdf.
(from PLUS URL ADDRESS)
Example:

Odal, Grace P. Some Problems in Determining the Origin of the

Philippine Word 'Mutya'
or 'Mutia.' Retrieved October 1,
2012 from http://www.sil.org/asia/philippines/
ical/papers/odal-devora-mutya.pdf.

K. ELECTRONIC SOURCE WITHOUT SPECIFIED AUTHOR; AS ONLINE

NEWSPAPER OR MAGAZINE ARTICLE
A Christian in Vietnam, The Last Word: Phan Minh Man.
(TITLE OF ARTICLE)
Newsweek (2004)
(NAME OF ONLINE NEWSPAPER OR MAGAZINE, DATE OF
PUBLICATION)
February 26, 2006
(DATE RETRIEVED)
from http: // www.msnbc.msn. Com/id/4625502.
(from PLUS URL ADDRESS)

Example:
A Christian in Vietnam, The Last Word: Phan Minh Man. Newsweek
(2004). Retrieved
February 25, 2006 from http: //
www.msnbc.msn. Com/id/4625502.