Note: Not all required information may be available. When information is not given, proceed to the next available part of the entry. For example, if the author’s name is not given, begin your entry with the title of the article.
PRINT RESOURCES
BOOK - ONE AUTHOR
Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publishing Company, Year.
EXAMPLE
Miller, Mary Ellen. Maya Art and Architecture. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1999.
BOOK - TWO OR MORE AUTHORS
1st author’s last name, 1st author’s first name, and 2nd author’s first and last names.Title of book. Place of publication: Publisher, Year.
EXAMPLE
Jennings, Peter and Todd Brewster. The Century for Young People. New York: Doubleday, 1999.
PRINT ENCYCLOPEDIA
Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Encyclopedia. Year edition.
EXAMPLE
"Romans." Columbia Encyclopedia. 2001.
BOOK IN A MULTIVOLUME SET
Author/editor’s last name, author/editor’s first name. "Section title." Title of book. Vol. #. Place of publication: Publisher, Year. Page#s.
EXAMPLE
Telgen, Diane, ed. "To Kill a Mockingbird." Novels for Students. Vol. 2. Detroit:
Gale Research, 1997. 285-307.
ANTHOLOGY
Editor’s or compiler’s last name, editor/compiler’s first name, ed. Or comp. Title of book. Place of publication: Publisher, Year.
EXAMPLE
McGann, Jerome J., ed. The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse. Oxford, NY:
Oxford University Press, 1993.
MAGAZINE
Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Magazine. Month Year. Page numbers.
EXAMPLE
Denton, Chad. "Ten of Our Favorite Windows XP Tips." Smart Computing. January 2002. 25-26.
NEWSPAPER
Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. "Title of Article." Name of Newspaper. Day Month Year. Section: Page.
EXAMPLE
LeClaire, Renee. "FirstClass program Available for Students." The Tartan. 19 February 2002: 1, 4.
PERSONAL INTERVIEW
Last Name of Person Interviewed, First Name. Personal Interview. Day Month Year.
EXAMPLE
Jones, Donald. Personal Interview. 24 October 2001.
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
WEBSITE
Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. "Title of Article." Sponsoring Organization; Day Month Year of Access .
EXAMPLE
Barcley, Laurie. "Designer Cancer Vaccines Look Promising." WebMD; Accessed 25 February 2002 .
DATABASE - FROM A REFERENCE BOOK
Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. "Title of Article," in Name of Original Source. Publishing Company, year, page numbers. Reproduced in Name of Database. Day Month Year of Access .
EXAMPLE
"Stephen Hawking," in Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists. Gale, 1995. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Accessed 25 February 2002 .
DATABASE - FROM A MAGAZINE
Author's Last Name, Author’s First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Magazine. Day Month Year of Article: Page Range. Name of Database. Day Month Year of Access .
EXAMPLE
Gabriel, Gail. "Don’t Dial and Drive." Good Housekeeping. 01 August 2001: 181. Electric Library. Accessed 25 February 2002. .
DATABASE - NEWSPAPER
Author's Last Name, Author’s First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Newspaper. Day Month Year, Edition: Page Numbers. Name of Database. Day Month Year of Access .
EXAMPLE
Burros, Marian. "U.S. Proposes End to Testing For Salmonella in School Beef." New York Times. 5 April 2001, late edition: A1. Proquest. Accessed 25 February 2002 .
ONLINE MAGAZINES, NEWSPAPERS - NOT FROM A DATABASE
Use forms above, but omit name of electronic database.
Substitute URL of website for URL of database.
EXAMPLE
Flake, Nancy. "New Woodlands High School May be Bigger Than Planned." Conroe Courier. 20 February 2002. Accessed 25 February 2002 .
ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. "Title of Entry." Name of Encyclopedia. Day Month Year of Access .
EXAMPLE
"Origins of the Olympic Winter Games." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Accessed 25 February 2002 .
E-BOOK
Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. Title of Book. Year of Original Publication. Month Day Year of Access .
EXAMPLE
Twain, Mark. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. 1867. Accessed 25 February 2002 .
CD-ROM
"Title of Article." Name of Disk. CD-ROM. Place of Publication: Publisher, year.
EXAMPLE
"Chemical Engineer." COIN Career Guidance System. Toledo, OH: COIN Educational Products, 2002.
EMAIL MESSAGE
Sender’s Last Name, Sender’s First Name . Subject Line of Message. Day Month Year. Receiver’s Last Name, Receiver’s First Name .
EXAMPLE
Smith, John . Answer to Your Question. 21 November 2001. Doe, Jane .
ONLINE DISCUSSION OR LISTSERV
Writer’s last name, Writer’s First Name. "Title of Message." Day Month Year of Message. Name of Discussion Group. .
EXAMPLE
Jones, Mary. "Javascript Tutorial." 31 March 2001. Monkeyjunkies ListServ .
FILM, VIDEO, DVD
Title of Film. Name of Director. Names of Major Actors. Format. Name of Studio or Distributor, Original Date.
EXAMPLE
It’s a Wonderful Life. Dir. Frank Capra. Perf. James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore. DVD. Artisan Home Entertainment, 1946.
