Citing Sources

Citing Sources

A bibliography is a list of sources arranged alphabetically using the author's last name. If there is no author, the title is used instead. Bibliographies can be written in several ways. One form is shown in the following examples. Look closely at the order of the information and at the punctuation.

If your bibliography is handwritten, the names of books, magazines, and encyclopedias should be underlined.

For a magazine article:

Farris, Katherine. "Wild Panda Search". OWL Magazine, February, 1986, pages 12-15.

For a book:

Gross, Ruth Belov. A Book about Pandas. Scholastic Book Services, New York, 1972.

For an article in an encyclopedia:

"Panda". The World Book Encyclopedia, Volume 15, 1989.

For an Internet site:

"Service Canada". http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/goc/reaffirmation_ceremony.shtml

adapted from "Research Reports" in English Language Arts Skill Handbook, (Weigl Educational Publishers, 1999-2008), 161-162. © 1999 Alberta Education, The Open Learning Agency - Open School and Weigl Educational Publishers.