Works Cited
The "Works Cited" list of source materials appears at the end of a research paper. The list should be in alphabetical order according to the last name of the author, and should consist of only those sources you have actually cited in your paper. If there is no author, the entry should be placed according to the first letter of the title. (Ignore "A," "An," and "The.") Notice that the second and subsequent lines are indented five spaces from the left margin.
Here are examples of the types of material you might use in your paper in the correct form for the works cited page.
A Book by a Single Author
Fishman, Charles. The Firewalkers. Greensboro: Avisson Press, 1996.
A Book with Two or Three Authors
Cohen, David and Ralph Logan. Dealing with Youth.
Los Angeles: Berkeley Press,
1984.
NOTE: Only the name of the first author is inverted; the names of subsequent authors are not inverted.
A Book with More Than Three Authors
Cummings, Charles, et al. The Effects of Television on Children's Learning.
New York: Random House, 1981.
An Essay in a Book of Essays
Davis, Frank. "Studying Faulkner." Essays in Modern Fiction. Ed. Marion Timber.
Boston: Heath, 1979. 5-9.
An Article in an Encyclopedia
Frank, Harold. "Elephants." Encyclopedia America. 1996 edition.
An Article in a Weekly Publication, Magazine, or Newspaper
Hirshey, Gerri. "The Wallflowers." Rolling Stone 12 June 1997: 50.
An Article in a Monthly Magazine
Bloomer, Lori L. "The Right Tool." Internet World June 1997: 54-57.
An Article in a Scholarly Journal: A journal with continuous page numbers
Herbert, Donald. "Teaching the Developmental
Student."
College English 46 (1978): 34- 38.
(NOTE: 46 is the volume number. When using a volume, place the date in parentheses.)
An Article In A Newspaper
Lipsyte, Robert. "Married to the Game: One More
Athlete's Wife Picks Up the
Pieces of Her Life." New York Times 1 June
1997: 8.1.
If the newspaper section is identified by a letter, the entry should be written:
Lipsyte, Robert. "Married to the Game: One More
Athlete's Wife Picks Up the
Pieces of Her Life" New York Times 1 June 1997: C.1.
A Government Document
United States. Department of Health. The Status of the Homeless. Washington, D.C.:
GPO, 1977.
An Editorial
"Albany Is Late, and Nonprofit Agencies Are
Paying." Editorial. Newsday
4 June 1997: A42.
Radio and Television Programs
"All in the Family." Writ. Rob Reiner. Dir. Bill Martin. Prod. Norman Lear. Ch. 5.
New York, 6 March 1989.
Films, Filmstrips, Slide programs, and Videotapes
An American in Paris. Dir. Vincent
Minnelli. Prod. Arthur Freed. Music by
George Gershwin. Lyrics by Ira Gershwin. With Gene Kelly, Leslie
Caron, and
Oscar Levant. MGM, 1951.
An Interview
Richards, Kelly. Director of Marketing,
Telemarketing Communications.
Personal Interview. 31 December 1996.