Works Cited or Bibliography Page

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Works Cited or Bibliography Page

• Listing your sources

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Bibliography Title
Name

• The title of a bibliography is called just
  that--Bibliography or Works Cited
• It should be centered at the top of the page.

Bibliography

• Your last name should be in the upper
• right-hand corner of the paper. The
  page
• number should be at the bottom of the
  page
• and should be the last page of your paper.
• Double space before beginning the first entry.

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Bibliography Entries-Author/Titles

• The entries are listed alphabetically.

Doe, John. The Great Houdini. .

• Magic. Colliers Encyclopedia.
• Vol. 15. New York Colliers
• Publishing (NOTE every line
• after the first line of the entry is
• indented . )

• Begin the entry by listing
• the authors last name first,
• then the first name or initials.

• If there is no author, begin with
• the title of article or book. A
• period follows the authors name,
• the article title, and the book title.
• Double space after each period.

(If the book is a multi-volume set, list the
volume number after the title.)
(Most bibliographical information can be found
on the front and back of the title page.)
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Bibliography Entries - Publishing Information

• After the Title of the book, list the city where
  the book was published--follow this with a colon
  ().
• Next list the name of the publishing company
  followed by a comma (,).
• After the Publisher, write the date the book was
  published followed by a period (.).

Green, Jeremy. The Life and Time of Henry Lucas.
New York Time- Life Publishing Company, 1989.
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Bibliography Entries -Page Numbers

• When you only use a few selected pages from a
  particular source, you list those pages at the
  end of your entry followed by a period.

Double space within the entry double space
between entries.
The Life of Quote Book. Los Angeles Prelude
Press Inc, 1996. 55. Peck, Dr. M. Scott.
Further Along the Road Less Traveled The
Unending Journey Toward Spiritual Growth. New
York Simon Schuster, 1993. 25-42.
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Works Cited - Periodicals
The information for the periodical is slightly
different than the book. An archived article
found on an Internet database is treated like a
regular magazine. Notice how there is no period
after the magazine title the date is written in
the European style, and a () follows the date.
Hughes, Robert. Blazing Exceptions to
Nature. Time 30 Nov. 1987 94-96.
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Works Cited - CD-ROM - Periodicals
The Printed source requirements are

• 1. Name of author (if given)
• 2. Publication information (including
  date of print publication)
• 3. Title of the database (underlined)
• 4. Publication medium (CD-ROM)
• 5. Name of vendor (if relevant)
• 6. Electronic publication date

• Angier, Natalie. Chemists Learn Why Vegetables
  Are Good for You .
• New York Times. 13 Apr. 1993, late ed. New
  York Times Ondisc.
• CD-ROM. UMI-Proquest. Oct. 1993.

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Works Cited - Web Sites
To cite a web page, gather all available
information on the page. You may have to check
the home page for the information. The lack of
the information listed below may indicate an
unreliable source.
1. Name of author (if given) 2. Title of the web
page (in quotation marks). 3. Title of the web
site (underlined). 4. Date the site was
created. 5. Date of the last update (if
given). 6. The URL address (surrounded by lt gt).
Smith, John. Cars of the 1920s. History of
Cars. General Motors. 1997-2002. 5
December 2002. lt http//www.historyofcars/car
sof1920.net.gt
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The Non-Printed source requirements are
1. Name of author (if given) 2. Title of the
material accessed (in quotation marks) 3. Date of
material (if given) 4. Title of the database
(underlined) 5. Publication medium (CD-ROM) 6.
Name of vendor (if relevant) 7. Electronic
publication date U. S. Population by Age
Urban and Urbanized Areas. 1990 U. S. Census
of Population and Housing. CD-ROM. U. S.
Bureau of the Census. 1990.
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Works Cited - Sample Page

• Works
  Cited
• Courtly Love. Geoffrey Chaucer Page. May 1998.
  Harvard U. 25
• Jan. 1999. lthttp//icg.fas.harvard.edu/chaucer/s
  pecial/lifemann/lovegt.
• Huneycutt, Lois. Medieval Queenship. History
  Today June
• 1989 16-23.
• Knapp, Peggy. Chaucer and the Social Contest.
  New York
• Routledge, 1990.
• Miller, Robert P. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The 1998
  Groliers
• Multimedia Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. Danbury
  Grolier
• Interactive Inc., 1998.