HOW TO CREATE WORKS CITED LIST?

BOOKS:

ONE AUTHOR

Author (last name, first name). Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year.
Shakespeare, William. Richard III. London: Penguin Books, 1969.
TWO OR MORE AUTHORS
- list the names in the order they appear on the title page
- only the first author's name should be reversed (last name, first name)
- use commas between author's names
- if there are more then three authors, name only the first and add et al.
Rowe, Richard, and John Juffus. Our Civic Duty. New York: Bookrags, 1998.
TWO OR MORE BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR
- in this case, give the name only in the first entry
- for the next entry, type three hyphens, add a period and skip a space (---. ) then give the
title
- the hyphens stand for the name in the first entry
Scott, Susan. Exploring the Bay. London: Qxford University Press, 1987.
---. Animals in the Bay. London: Oxford University Press, 1997.

SECOND AND OTHER EDITION

Author (last name, first name). Title of Book. Edition. City of Publication: Publisher,

1967.
Huber, Michael. Marine Biology. 5th edition. London: Oxford University Press,
1967.

EDITOR OR COMPILER
- if the person is an editor or a compiler, rather than the author, add a comma and then the

abbreviation ed. or comp.

Carpenter, Allan, ed. Facts About the Cities. New York: Wilson, 1992

CORPORATE AUTHOR

Public Agenda Foundation. The Health Care Crisis: Containing Costs, Expanding
Coverage. New York: McGraw, 1992.

BOOK IN AN ANTHOLOGY

Malouf, David. "The Kyogle Line." The Oxford Book of Travel Stories. Ed. Patricia Craig.
Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996.

ARTICLE IN A REFERENCE BOOK

Coulter, Ellis Merton. "John Adair." Dictionary of American Biography. Ed. Allen
Johnson. Vol. 1. New York: Scribner's Sons, 1964.

GOVERNMENT AGENCY AS AUTHOR

Name of Government. Name of Agency. Title. Number of Congress. Number of

Publication: Publisher, Date of Publication
United States. Census Bureau. Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2004-05.
124th ed. Washington, DC: GPO, 2004.
ENCYCLOPEDIA:
Author of Article (if given). Article title. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher,
Year.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE, SIGNED

Epps, Helen H.. "Textiles." World Book Encyclopedia. 2003 ed.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE or DICTIONARY ENTRY, UNSIGNED

"Onomatopoeia." Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. 11th ed. 2003.

ARTICLE:
- give complete dates for weekly magazine in this order: d.d. mm yy
- abbreviate the months

ARTICLE FROM A MONTHLY MAGAZINE

Hitchens, Christopher. "A Breath of Dust." Atlantic Monthly Jul-Aug 2005: 142- 46.

ARTICLE FROM A WEEKLY MAGAZINE

Boyce, Nell. "A Law's Fetal Flaw." U.S. News and World Report 21 July 2003: 49-51.

WEB SITES:
- sometimes the complete publication information is not available foe a Web site; provide
what it is given

ENTIRE INTERNET SITE. SCHOLARY PROJECT OR PROFESSIONAL

SITE

Title of the Site. Editor. Date and/or Version Number. Name of Sponsoring institution.
Date of Access <url>.
Encyclopedia Myhica. 2204. 13 May 2004 <http://pantheon.org/>.

DOCUMENT FROM A WEB SITE

Author. Title of Web Page. Title of the Site. Editor. Date. Name of sponsoring

Institution. Date of Access <url>.

Sutton, Bettye, et al. "1800-1810." 19th Century Cultural History. Ed. Peggy
Whitley. 2003. Kingwood College Library, Kingwood, TX. 28 July 2005
<http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/19thcentury1800.htm>.

NO AUTHOR

Dutch Recipes. 9 Jun. 1998. 16 Sept. 2003.

<http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/verona/190/eten.htm>.

AUTHOR, NO DATE

Dawe, James. The Jane Austen Page. 16 Sept. 2003

<http://jamesdawe.com/austen.html>.

FILM OR VIDEOTAPE

The English Patient. Dir. Anthony Minghella. Perf. Ralph Finnnes, Juliette Binoche, William
Defpr, and Christian Scott Thomas. Mirimax, 1996.

LIVE PERFORMANCE OF A PLAY

Six Characters in Search of an Author. By Luigi Pirandello. Dor. Robert Brustein. Perf.
Jeremy Geidt, David Ackroyd, Monoca Koskey, ana Marianne Owen. American
Repertory Theatre, Cambridge. 14 Jan. 1997.