BASIC FORMS FOR SOURCES IN PRINT

TYPE OF INFO REQUIRED EXAMPLE SOUR CE BOOKS

1 AUTHOR Author(s). Title of Book. Place of Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. Denver: MacMurray, 1999 Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.

2 BOOKS Two books by the same author Palmer, William J. Dickens and New Historicism. SAME (After the first listing of the author's name, use New York: St. Martin's, 1997. AUTH three hyphens and a period for the author's OR name. List books alphabetically.) ---. The Films of the Eighties: A Social History. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1993.

BOOK W/ If there are more than three authors, you MORE may list only the first author Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and THAN followed by the phrase et al. (the Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: ONE abbreviation for the Latin phrase AUTH "and others") in place of the other Allyn, 2000. OR authors' names, or you may list all the authors in the order in which their names appear on the title page. BOOK W/ CORP American Allergy Association. Allergies in ORAT E Children. New York: Random, 1998 AUTH OR BOOK OR For parenthetical citations of sources with no ARTIC author named, use a shortened version of the Encyclopedia of Indiana. New York: Somerset, 1993. LE title instead of an author's name. Use W/NO quotation marks and underlining as "Cigarette Sales Fall 30% as California Tax Rises." AUTH appropriate. For example, parenthetical OR citations of the two sources above would New York Times 14 Sept. 1999: A17. appear as follows: (Encyclopedia 235) and ("Cigarette" A17).

ANTHOLOGY OR Peterson, Nancy J., ed. Toni Morrison: Critical and COLL Theoretical Approaches. Baltimore: Johns ECTIO N Hopkins UP, 1997 PART OF BOOK Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Harris, Muriel. "Talk to Me: Engaging Reluctant (SUCH Collection. Ed. Editor's Name(s). Place Writers." A Tutor's Guide: Helping Writers One to AS ESSA of Publication: Publisher, Year. Pages. One. Ed. Ben Rafoth. Portsmouth, NH: Y IN A COLL Heinemann, 2000. 24-34. ECTIO N)

Cross-referencing: If you cite more than one essay from the same edited collection, you L'Eplattenier, Barbara. "Finding Ourselves in the should cross-reference within your works cited Past: An Argument for Historical Work on list in order to avoid writing out the publishing information for each separate essay. To do so, WPAs." Rose and Weiser 131-40. include a separate entry for the entire collection listed by the editor's name. For individual essays from that collection, simply list the author's name, the title of the essay, the editor's last name, and the page numbers. Peeples, Tim. "'Seeing' the WPA With/Through For example: Postmodern Mapping." Rose and Weiser 153- 167.

Rose, Shirley K, and Irwin Weiser, eds. The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1999.

ARTICLES

ARTICLE FROM "Jamaica." Encyclopedia Britannica. 1999 ed. REFE RENC E BOOK ARTICLE IN A PERIO Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Source MAGAZINE DICAL Day Month Year: pages. (NEW Poniewozik, James. "TV Makes a Too-Close Call." SPAP When citing the date, list day before month; ER OR use a three-letter abbreviation of the month Time 20 Nov. 2000: 70-71. MAGA (e.g. Jan., Mar., Aug.). If there is more than ZINE) one edition available for that date (as in an NEWSPAPER early and late edition of a newspaper), identify the edition following the date (e.g. 17 May Artner, Alan G. “An American Original.” Chicago 1987, late ed.). Tribune. 15 Jan. 1984, sec. 10: 15-19.

ARTICLE IN A Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal Essay in a journal with continuous pagination SCHO LARL Vol (Year): pages. Y Allen, Emily. "Staging Identity: Frances Burney's JOUR "Vol" indicates the volume number of the Allegory of Genre." Eighteenth-Century Studies NAL journal. If the journal uses continuous pagination throughout a particular volume, only 31 (1998): 433-51. volume and year are needed, e.g. Modern Fiction Studies 40 (1998): 251-81. If each Essay in a journal that pages each issue issue of the journal begins on page 1, separately however, you must also provide the issue number following the volume, e.g. Mosaic 19.3 (1986): 33-49. Duvall, John N. "The (Super)Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Mediation in DeLillo's

White Noise." Arizona Quarterly 50.3 (1994):

127-53. BIBLE SPECIFIC EDITI The New Jerusalem Bible. Susan Jones, gen. ed. ONS New York: Doubleday, 1985.

OTHER

PERSONAL INTER John Doe. Personal Interview. 5 June 2006. VIEW Name of person interviewed. Personal Interview. Day Month Year. GOVERNMEN T New York State. Dept. of Agriculture. National Food PUBLI Name of Government. Name of Agency. Survey. Albany: State of New York, 1990. CATIO NS Title of the Publication. Place: Publisher, Year. Poore, Benjamin Perley. A Catalouge of

If known, the name of the document’s author Government Publications of the Unites States, may either begin the entry or, if the agency th comes first, follow the title and the word BY September 5, 1774-March, 1881. US 48 Cong., 2nd sess. Washington: GPO, 1885 In citing congressional documents, include the number and session of Congress, the house (S for Senate, HR for House of Reps) .

Most federal publications are published by the Government Printing Office (GPO) in Washington D.C. unless otherwise noted.

EDITORIAL

Author. “Title.” Editorial. Name of Zuckerman, Mortimer. “ Death of A Writer.” Editorial. New York Times 20 Apr. 1994, late ed.: A18. Publication. Day Month Year, edition:

page or section. TELEVISION OR RADI “Title of episode or segment.” Title of the “Death & Society.” Weekend Sunday edition. Natl. O Public Radio. WUWM, Milwaukee. 25 Jan. PROG Program. Title of the Series (if any). 1998. RAM Name of The Network. Call letters, city of local station.

Day Month Year (of broadcast)

A FILM

Title of Film. Director Name. Performers (if It’s A Wonderful Life. Dir. Frank Capra. Perf. James

desired). Distributor, Year of Release. Stewart, Donna Reed. RKO, 1946.

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Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5th ed. New York: MLA, 1999.

Glencoe Literature. Style & Documentation: Sourcebook for Writiers. Teacher’s Annotated ed. New York: Glencoe

McGraw-Hill, 2002.

Stolley, Karl. “MLA Formatting & Style Guide.” The Owl at Purdue. 10 May 2006. Purdue University Writing Lab. 21 Jun

2006.