Cite Your Sources: Guidelines suggested to all students at Sandy Valley Jr-Sr High School

• As you gather information for a paper or a project, keep a list of the sources you use.
• At the end of your paper or project should be a bibliography titled Works Cited, which lists all information sources (citations) in alphabetical order according to the first word in each entry, except for article pronouns (a, an, the).
• Wherever no author is named, begin the citation with the next available element.
• When using a word processor, titles should be in italics. When using a typewriter or handwriting, titles are underlined instead.
• Double space within and between citation entries.
• When entries are more than one line, second and later lines are indented five spaces. The limitations of web page language cannot display this feature in the text below.

Book

Author's Last name, First name. Title. City published, State if city not well known: Publisher, copyright date.

Lee, Mary Price, and Richard S. Price. Coping through Effective Time Management. New York: Rosen, 1991

Parts of Books : an introduction, afterword, preface, or foreword to a book writeen by someone other than the books' author.

Author's Last name, First name.   Type of part.  Title.   Author of full work.   City published, State if city not well known: Publisher, copyright date.  Page numbers of part.

Fadiman, Clifton.  Afterword.   The Call of the Wild.   By Jack London.   New York: Macmillan, 1963.  127-28.

Fadiman, Clifton.  Preface.  World's Great Poems.  Ed. Louis Untermeyer.  New York: Scribner's, 1960.  ii-v.

Parts of Books: a previously published essay or article from a collection of writings by different authors.

Author's Last name, First name.  "Title of article."  Title of original work (date): page numbers of original printing.  Rpt. in Title of work where reprint appears.   Ed.  Editor's First name, Last name.  City published, State if city not well known:  Publisher, copyright date.  Page numbers of article in reprint.

Snyder, Melinda. "Art from Nature."  Painting for Life (Summer 1998): 193-206.  Rpt. in Best Ideas for Artists.  Ed. Cynthia Shaffer.  New York: Fine Arts Press, 1999.   31-42.

A short story or poem from an anthology.

Author's Last name, First name. "Title of selection."  Title of anthology.   Ed. Editor's First name Last Name.  Edition statement.   City published, State if city not well known: Publisher, copyright date.   Page numbers.

Poe, Edgar Allan.  "The Purloined Letter."  American Short Story Classics.  Ed. Clifton Fadiman. 3rd ed.  New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1988.  35-52.

Frost, Robert. "The Road Not Taken."  Favorite American Poets.  Ed. Louis Untermeyer. 1st ed.  New York: Holt, 1975.  857.

Magazine article

Author's Last name, First name. "Title of article." Title of Magazine Day Month Year: page number(s) of article.

Larmer, Brook. "Another Paradise Lost." Newsweek 18 August 1997: 43-45.

Encyclopedia article

Author's Last name, First name. "Title of Article." Title of Encyclopedia. Year of edition.

Upjohn, Everard M. "Castles and Chateaux." Encyclopedia Americana. 1990 ed.

CD-ROM Encyclopedia

Author's Last name, First name. "Title of Article." Title of CD-ROM. CD-ROM. City, State: Publisher, copyright date.

Grossman, Lawrence. "Mica." Science Navigator. CD-ROM. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.

Newspaper article

Author's Last name, First name. "Title of Article." Title of Newspaper. Day Month Year: section and page number.

Rossetti, Diana. "Background Check." The Repository. 7 October 1997: D1.

Videotape

Title. Videocassette. Publisher, date.

Hurricane! Videocassette. WGBH Educational Foundation, 1989.

Interview

Interviewee's Last name, First name. Person's title. Personal (or Telephone) interview. Day Month Year of interview.

Leach, Robert. Mayor of Magnolia, Ohio. Telephone interview. 25 October 1997.

Pamphlet

Follow book format. If no author is given, use sponsoring organization if known. If no publisher or date is given, begin with title and list country of publication in brackets.

How to Study. Hartford, CT: Keywork Publications, 1997. ---or---

How to Study. [United States] n.p., n.d.

A work of art

Artist's Last name, First name.   Title of work.   Museum name, City.
(include State, Country if city not obvious and well-known)

Cezanne, Paul.   A Modern Olympia.   Louvre, Paris.

Web site

Author's Last name, First name. "Title of Web Page." Title of Complete Web Site. protocol and address path (date of message or visit)

" MLA Format: Giving Credit to Sources." Purdue University Writing Lab. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/Files/33.html (24 October 1997).