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Citing Your Sources - Creating a Bibliography

Anytime you take information from another source (book, web, magazine, etc.) you must be sure to give credit to the source who you took the information from by creating a bibliography.

There are specific rules for how the bibliography is created, each source has a different format which should be followed exactly. Use the following on-line resources, or copy the format from the examples below.

Online Bibliography Tools:

Citation Machine - Just enter your source information into the appropriate spots and this site will create the correct citation for you!

Citation Maker - Easy to use to create multiple types of citations.

Citation Generator - Another great site to enter your source information.

Examples of how to cite sources:

 
Books and Reference Books
Books with one author

Clifford, Mary Louise. The Land and People of Afghanistan. New York: Lippincott, 1989.

Book with Two Authors

Davidson, James West, and John E. Batchelor. The American Nation. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1991.

Book with Three Authors 

Allen, Dinsmore, Clarence H. Cleminshaw and John G. Phillips. Pictorial Astronomy. 3rd rev. ed. New York: Crowell, 1969. 

Book with more than Three Authors:

Allee, W. C., et. al. Principles of Animal Ecology. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1949. 

Books with a Corporate Author.

American Cancer Society. Facts on Hodkins Disease. Baltimore: American Cancer Society, 1972.

Books without an author listed.

The World Almanac and Book of Facts. New York: Newspaper Enterprises Association, 1994.

When only part of the work (book, etc.) is used, include pages used.

Eschmeyer, William N. and Earl S. Herald. Pacific Coast Fishes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. 114-116. 

A Signed Article in an Encyclopedia.

Eaton, John W. "Ethnic Group." The Encyclopedia Americana. 1993 ed. 

An Unsigned Article in an Encyclopedia.

"Latin America." The World Book Encyclopedia. 1994 ed.

"Ginsburg, Ruth Bader." Who's Who in America. 48th ed. 1994 

Reference Book

Martel, Hazel Mary. "The Aegean Civilizations." The Kingfisher Book of the Ancient World. New York: Kingfisher, 1995 

Government Documents

United States. Department of State. "Mexico." Background Notes. Washington: GPO, 1994. 

Articles Reprinted in Another Publication, e.g. Social Issues Resources Series (SIRS)

Ritche, Mark. "Not by Bread or Rice Alone." Worldpaper. Apr. 1992. Food. Ed. by Eleanor Goldstein. Vol. 5. Boca Raton: SIRS, 1992. Art. 10.

Magazines and Newspapers
A Signed Magazine Article from a Monthly Magazine

Allen, T. B. "Turkey Struggles for Balance." National Geographic. May 1994: 34-35.

A Signed Magazine Article from a Weekly Magazine

Armstrong, Larry. "The Learning Revolution: Technology is Reshaping Education - at Home and at School." Business Week. 28 Feb. 1994: 80-88.

An Unsigned Magazine Article (Anonymous)

"Education at Home: A Showdown in Texas." Newsweek. 25 March 1985: 87. 

A Signed Article from a Daily Newspaper

Taylor, Stuart. "Senate Passes Tough Anti-Crime Measure." The Denver Post. 3 Feb. 1984: B17.

An Unsigned Article from a Daily Newspaper

"Culture Shock: Williamsburg and Disney World, Back to Back." New York Times. 21 Sep. 1975: sec. 10.1.

Non-Print Resources 
Interview

Lamm, Dorothy. Personal Interview. Denver, Colorado. 10 Apr. 1994. Poussaint, Alvin, F. Telephone interview. 10 Dec. 1990. 

TV or Radio Program

"Frederick Douglas." Civil War Journal. Narr. Danny Glover. Dir. Craig Haffner. Arts and Entertainment Network. 6 Apr. 1993. 

  Into the Woods. By Stephen Sondheim. Dir. James Lapine. Perf. Bernadette Peters and Johanna Gleson. American Playhouse. PBS. WNET, New York. 3 Mar. 1991.

Sound Recordings

Marasalis, Branford. Romances for Saxophone. English Chamber Orch. Cond. Andrew Litton. Audiocassette. CBS, 1986 

Video Recording

It's a Wonderful Life. Dir. Frank Capra. Perf. James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, and Thomas Mitchell. RKO, 1946
Internet
Citing Online Databases , e.g. InfoTrac, EBSCO, UMI

Satchell, Michael. "At War in an Ancient Forest (Tongass National Forest, Alaska)." U.S. News and World Report. 25 Sep. 1996. InfoTrac SuperTOM Junior. Online. Internet. 20 Nov. 1998. 

Price, Sean. "The Spartan Way." Junior Scholastic. 7 Sep. 1998. EBSCO Middle Search Plus. Online. Internet. 20 Nov. 1998.
"Boeing Nears Major Satellite Launch." Seattle Post Intelligencer. 16 Nov 1998. UMI Junior ProQuest. Online. Internet. 20 Nov. 1998.
"Washington, George." World Book Online. Online. Internet. 23 Nov. 1998.

Electronic Source: World Wide Web, Material with No Printed Source or Printed Analogue Specified.

[Name of the Author (if given)] [Title of the material accessed (in quotation marks)] [Date of the material (if given)] [Title of the database (underlined)] [publication medium (Online)] [Name of the computer service] [Date of access] < URL > 

Example

"China." 1997 World Factbook. Online. Internet. 23 Nov. 1998.<http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/country-frame.html >