Type of Source
Format
Example
Book with one
author
Last name, First name.
Title: Subtitle
.
City of publication: Publisher, Year of
publication. Medium of publication.
Sampson, Ralph.
My Life: A Slam Dunk
.
Houston: Rocket Publishing, 1988. Print.
Book with two or
three authors
Last name, First name, and First name
Last name.
Title: Subtitle
. City of
publication: Publisher, Year of publication.
Medium of publication.
Alderman, Ellen and Caroline Kennedy.
The Right to Privacy
. New York: Knopf,
1995. Print.
Book with editor
but no author
Last name, First name, ed.
Title: Subtitle
.
City of publication: Publisher, Year of
publication. Medium of publication.
Fielding, Walter, ed.
Real Estate Hard
Knocks: Avoid the Money Pit
. New York:
Lawyers Press, 1986. Print.
Book with two or
three editors
Last name, First name, and First name
Last name, eds.
Title: Subtitle
. City of
publication: Publisher, Year of publication.
Medium of publication.
Smith, Wayne, and Garth Snow, eds.
Street Hockey: The Game of Life
.
Chicago: Blackhawk Publishing House,
1993. Print.
Article in general
encyclopedia
(with author)
Last name, First name. “Title of article.”
Title of Reference Book
. Volume
number. Year of publication. Medium of
publication.
Boyardee, Charles. “Cooking Pasta Right.”
An Encyclopedia of Food
. Volume 4.
2004. Print.
Article in
encyclopedia or
reference book
(no author)
“Title of article.”
Title of Reference
Book
. Volume. City: Publisher, Year of
publication. Medium of publication.
“Modern China.”
A Survey of World
Civilizations Today
. Volume 8. Shanghai:
Jiangsu Press, 2009. Print.
Article in
periodical
Last name, First name. “Title of Article.”
Title of Periodical
. Day Month Year: Page
range. Medium of publication.
Poniewozik, James. “TV Makes a Too-
Close Call.”
Time
20 November 2000:
70-71. Print.
Novel or play in
an anthology
Last name, First name. “Title of Novel
or Play.”
Title of Anthology
. Ed. Editor’s
Name. City: Publisher, Year. Medium of
publication.
Poe, Edgar Alan. “The Telltale Heart.”
Scary Stories and Terrible Tales
. Ed.
John Davis. Boston: Harbor Press, 1996.
Print.
Website
Last name, First name. “Title of Webpage.”
Title of Website
. Publishing organization,
Date of resource creation. Medium of
publication. Date accessed.
Cohen, Howard. “Great Teachers of
History.”
TeacherWeb 3.0
. Nipmuc
University. 3 December 1998. Web.
13 May 2010.
Article from
online database
Last name, First name. “Title of Article.”
Title of original source.
Date of resource
creation.
Title of Database
. Medium of
publication. Date accessed.
Junge, Wolfgang, and Nathan Nelson.
“Nature’s Rotary Electromotors.”
Science
29 April 2005.
Science Online
. Web. 5
March 2009.
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