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WORKS CITED (BIBLIOGRAPHY) SAMPLES The following style sheet was created to help Afton High School Students write a bibliography for papers submitted for class work. It follows MLA documentation format. The following samples are arranged by type. Your finals WORKS CITED (or BIBLIOGRAPHY) will follow the punctuation, capitalization and form used in these samples, but it will be arranged alphabetically by author's last name or the first word of the title if there is no author. Ignore the articles "a", "an", and "the" when you alphabetize. WORD PROCESSING NOTE: Titles may be underlined with a broken line as shown below, or as a single, continuous line. .
Book -- One author Herndon, Venable. James Dean: A Short Life. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. Book -- Two authors Dalton, David and Ron Cayen. James Dean: American Icon. New York: St. Martin Press, Book -- Same author [This refers to entry immediately above.] ---. James Dean: Movie Star. Los Angeles: McMillan, 1982. Book -- Multiple authors Moore, Patricia E. et al. The James Dean Fan Club. Oneonta, New York: The Oneonta Book -- Editor Larkin, Grace, ed. The Cars of James Dean. 3rd ed. San Francisco: Vanity Publishers, 1988. Book -- Corporate Authorship The Oneonta School System Department of English. The James Dean Annual Report. Urbana, Illinois: The Council, 1989.
Poems, short stories, essays, articles, plays, speeches in an anthology [A collection of related writings published in one book] Valdez, Luis, and Stan Steiner, eds. Aztlan: An Anthology of Mexican American Literature. New York: Vintage-Knopf, 1972 A Work from an Anthology Linnen, Sherese. "Farewell to the Dean Hero: A Senior Speech." Excellence in the Speech Classroom. Ed. John Chamard. Chicago: Little Press Ltd., 1991. 112-115.
ARTICLES in magazines and newspapers. Magazine: Author's last name, first name.. "Title of the article." Title of the magazine Date of the magazine: page numbers of the article. Newspaper: Author's last name, first name. "Title of the article." Title of the newspaper Date of the article. edition if available: page number or numbers. Article -- magazine, periodical or journal with an author Stuller, John. "Legends That Will Not Die." Saturday Evening Post July/August 1985: 45- 49. Article with no author "Stars That Won't Die." Newsweek 18 June 1956: 122. Article in newspaper with author Murphy, Susan. "James Dean: A Folkhero." The ECHO 12 January 1991: 3, 5. Article in newspaper with no author "Dream the Dean Dream." Big City News 4 April 1961, sec. B: 4+.
Encyclopedia or reference book article with author Last name, First Name. "The title of the article." Name of the Reference Book. 10 ed. 3 vol., 1996. Encyclopedia or reference book article with no author "Film Heroes." The Hollywood Picture Encyclopedia. Ed. John Singleton et al. Grinsby, Ontario: Big Publisher, 1997. An article from a book in a series or a multivolume single titled work Sanford, David. "The Seddier Media." The Annals of America. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Vol. 2. Englewood Cliffs: Salem Press, 1997. 106-110. 11 Vols. and supplements. When each volume of a multivolume work in a series has its own title, either the volume title or the general title may come first. Wattle, Ralph. "Public reacts to the broadcast of 'War of the Worlds.'" Popular Culture, vol. 9 of Contemporary Issues Series. New York: New York Times, 1978.
The information for a government publication is given in the following order: Name of the government. Name of the government agency. Title of the publication. Place of publication: Publisher, Copyright Date. Example:
The information for films and video recordings is given in the following order: 1. Title of the film(underlined). Note: Other information, such as the names of the writer, performers, and/or producers may be added if you wish. Example: My Left Foot. Videocassette. Prod. Noel Pearson. Dir. Jim Sheridan. Mirax 1989.
The information for a sound recording is given as follows: 1. Performer or composer. Example: Rabeler, Scott. Dean Symphony. Catskill Record, SED 2001, 1981. Information for a television or radio program is given as follows: 1. Title of the episode or segment. (In quotation marks) "Abraham Lincoln." Civil War Journals. Narr. Danny Glover. Dir. James McCord. Arts and Entertainment Network. 27 October 1996. Interview (This includes a live or telephone interview. Identify the person's specialty as it applies to your topic.) Moore, Patricia. Teacher of American Film and member of James Dean Fan Club of America. Personal interview on James Dean. 4 April 1966.
Speech, Address, Lecture Banks, Murray. "Keynote Speech. " Wellness Day: Oneonta, New York: Oneonta Senior High School, Oneonta, NY, 8 October 1997. . Multivolume work with separate titles for each volume White, David Manning, ed. Popular Culture. Set 1 vol.9 of The Great Contemporary Issue Series. New York: ARNO Press, 1978.
FORMS FOR THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA CD ROMS - There are two basic types of CD-ROM programs. One of them is published the way the print books are. Information from these CD-ROMS is generally given in the order which follows. If some of the information is not available to you, simply use what is available. Examples in our library are The New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia and Encyclopedia Americana.
1. Name of author "Brazil." The New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. Grolier Electronic, 1992 The second type of CD-ROM is a periodically published database. Proquest CD-ROM is an example of this. The materials which are on these CD-ROMS are magazines and newspapers. They are updated regularly and are often published in a printed form first. Information for this type of CD-ROM is given as follows: 1. Name of author ( if given)
PROQUEST Peterson, John E., "Managing Public Money." Governing June 1991: 46+ Proquest CD-ROM. CD-ROM. Bell & Howell Information & Learning Company. Fall 2000.
ONLINE SOURCE: In general, follow the citation form for books, magazines or newspapers and then add the available online information. 1. Name of the author or editor 2. Title of the article or document (in quotation marks) 3. Name of the web site, book, journal, newsletter, or conference (underlined) 4. Publication information. *Place, publisher, and date for books or *Volume and year of a journal or *Exact date of a magazine 5. Number of pages only if the Internet article shows original page numbers from the printed version of the magazine or journal 6. the full http adddress<within angle brackets> or name of database. 7. Write the word Online 8. Date of your access, followed by a period.
UMI Proquest ( An online database) Stewart, Doug. "The Importance of Getting Clean." International Wildlife March/April 1998:12-21. Bell & Howell Information and Learning - Proquest Direct. October 2000. WWW Victorian Women Writers Project. Ed. Perry Willett. Apr. 1997. Indiana U. EMAIL:Author of email message. Subject line of the message [Online] Available email: student@address.edu from author@address.edu date of message.
The above bibliographic style sheet information was largely done with help from the Norwich High School Guide for Writers of Research which was largely done by Judy Busch. . I wish to thank Jeff Detrick from Norwich and Deb Dalton from Oneonta HS for their willingness to share both the original and HTML versions of that work. Also used for a guide was A Guide to MLA Documentation/Trimmer | |||||||
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