How to Cite References


The references list (or bibliography) should include all sources you used to find information for your research. Entries should be arranged alphabetically by authors' surnames and by titles of anonymous works. Each entry should include full bibliographic detail: name(s) of author(s), full title of work, place, publisher, date of publication, and for articles, periodical title and inclusive page numbers.

Centre the title References (or Bibliography) at the top of a page at the end of the report. Then, follow the appropriate examples below to format correctly each resource.

BOOKS

One author

Ornstein, Robert E. The Psychology of Consciousness. 2nd ed. New York: Harcourt, 1977.

Two or three authors

Gesell, Arnold, and Frances L. Ilg. Child Development: An Introduction to the Study of Human Growth. New York: Harper, 1949.

More than three authors

Spiller, Robert, et al. Literary History of the United States. New York: Macmillan, 1960.

Corporate author

United States Capitol Society. We, the People: The Story of the United States Capitol. Washington, DC: National Geographic Soc., 1964.

One of multiple volume

Pizer, Donald and Earl N. Harbert, eds. American Realists and Naturalists. Detroit: Gale Research, 1982. Vol. 12 of Dictionary of Literary Biography. 128 vols. to date. 197shy

One work in an anthology/title within title

Dimock, George E., Jr. "The Name of Odysseus." Essays on The Odyssey: Selected Modern Criticism. Ed. Charles H. Taylor. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1963. 54-72.

PERIODICAL ARTICLES

Known volume, issue number and year

Posen, I. Sheldon, and Joseph Sciorra. "Brooklyn's Dancing Tower." Natural History 92.6(1983): 30-3

No volume number, no author name

"The Vietnam War: The Executioner." Newsweek 13 Nov. 1978: 70. Newspaper article Greeley, Andrew. "Today's Morality Play: The Sitcom." New York Times 17 May 1987, late ed., sec. 2: 1+.

Two publications by the same author

Foulkes, David. "Dreams of Innocence." Psychology Today Dec. 1978: 78-88.---. The Psychology of Sleep. New York: Scribner's, 1966.

INTERNET AND CD-ROM SOURCES

Part of an Online Book

Dickinson, Emily. "With Flowers." Poems. 1896. Project Bartleby, Columbia University.
6 June 1999 < http://www.columbia.edu./acis/bartelby/dickingson/>.

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray.1890 Bibliomania
27 June 2006 < http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/frameset.html>.

CD-ROM version (NB: The end date is from the CD surface, not the journal.)

O'Shea, Dan. "Fabled Publisher Goes on the Net." Telephony 227.22 (1994): 7.
Business Periodicals Ondisc. CD-ROM. University Microfilm International. Nov. 1994.

Schultz, Susan M. "Postmodern Promos." Postmodern Culture. 3.1 (Sept. 1992): n. pag. Online.

Article in an Online Journal

Youngquist, Walter. "Alternative Energy Cources-Myths and Realities." Electronic
Green Journal. 9. (Dec 1998). 1998. June 1999 < http://www.lib.uidaho.edu:70/docs/egj09/youngqu1.html>

NON-PRINT SOURCES

Television program

"Shakespearean Putdowns." Narr. Robert Siegel and Linda Wertheimer. All Things Considered. Natl. Public Radio. WUWM, Milwaukee. 6 Apr. 1994.

Videotape

Capra, Frank, dir. It's a Wonderful Life. 1946. Videocassette. Republic, 1988.

Interview

Greenhill, H. Gaylon. Personal interview. 19 May 1995