Book or pamphlet

(1 author)

Last name of author, First name. Title. City: Publisher, Copyright year.

Adams, Lois. Getting to Know Inventors. Philadelphia: Scholastic Publishing, 2001.

Book or pamphlet

(2 or 3 authors)

Last name of 1st author, First name, and First name and Last name of 2nd author.

Whitney, David. C., and Robin V. Whitney. The American Presidents. Pleasantville, NY: The Reader’s

Digest Association, 1993.

Book or pamphlet (more than 3 authors or editors)

Last name of 1st editor, First name of 1st editor, et al., eds. Title. Continue as above. (If they are authors, not editors, simply omit the eds. from entry.)

Brandes, Kathleen, et al., eds. Vanishing Species. New York: Time-Life Books, 1976.

Book or pamphlet

(no author or editor)

Title. City: Publisher, Copyright year.

Foods That Harm, Foods That Heal. Pleasantville, NY: The Reader’s Digest Association, 1997.

Book or pamphlet

(1 or more editors)

Last name of editor, First name, ed. Title. City: Publisher, Copyright year.

(use same format as books, but add ,ed. after 1 editor or ,eds. after more than 1.

Greenberg, Martin H., and Charles G. Waugh, eds. A Newbery Halloween. New York: Delacorte

Press, 1993.

Reference Book

(article with author)

Last name of author, First name. "Title of article." Name of reference book. Copyright year for edition used.

Yew, P. "Skunks." Encyclopedia Animalia. 1995 ed.

Reference Book

(article with no author)

"Title of article." Name of reference book. Copyright year for edition used.

"Christopher Columbus." World Book Encyclopedia. 1990 ed.

Magazine Article

Last name of author, First name. "Title of article." Name of magazine Month, Year: pages. (If there is no author, begin with Title of Article / weekly magazine use day mo. year)

Elliott, Meg. "The Gerbil Ate My Homework." The Magazine of Animal Antics 5 Sept. 1996: 36-39.

Government Publications

Name of govt. (state, county, country, etc.). Name of agency. Title of publication. City: Publisher, Year.

United States, Dept. of Education. A Report on the Feasibility of School on Saturdays. Washington:

Government Printing Office, 1998.

Newspaper Article

Last name of author, First name. "Title of article." Name of newspaper Day month year: section and page. (If there is no author, begin with Title of Article)

Rescue, Randy. "Ice Packs on the Head Prevent Research Project Distress among Middle School Students." Daily Newsworthy News 10 Jan. 1998: D7.

Cartoons

Cartoonist’s last name, First name. "Title of cartoon." Cartoon. Name of publisher [City] Day month year: page.

Taylor, Floyd. "Barney and Andy." The Sentinel [Mayberry, NC] 29 Aug. 1997: 8D

CD-ROM

Encyclopedia Articles

Last name of author, First name. "Title of article." Name of CD-ROM. Year of edition. CD-ROM. City where published: Name of publisher, Year.

Slurp, Susie. "Table Manners." My Encyclopedia of Etiquette. 1995-96 ed. CD_ROM. Chicago:

Software for Kids, Inc., 1996.

Periodical CD-ROM

Databases such as SIRS and InfoTrac

Last name of author, First name. "Title of article." Original publisher Date published: Section or pages. Title of CD-ROM. CD-ROM. Publisher of CD-ROM (if relevant). Date published.

Matthews, Michael. "Basketball in Antarctica." Hoops News Feb. 1996: 46-47. Sports Abstracts. CD-ROM. SportSoft, Inc. 1996.

Films

Title. Name of producer or director. With names of main performers. Distributor (studio), Year produced.

The Great Research Project Adventure. Dir. John Q. Smith. With Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson, and Julia Roberts. Eagle’s Nest Studio, 1999.

Internet Sites

Author (if given). "Title of article (if given)." Title of site. Date (if given). Internet address (Retrieved day month year you logged on).

Rabbit, Brer. "Food for Thought." Home Page for Small furry Animals. 1997.

http//www.hares/~bunnies.com (Retrieved 3 Oct. 1997).

Online Databases

Such as America Online

Author (if given). "Title of article." Date (if given). Title of database. Online. Name of computer service. Day month year you logged on.

Elliott, Kate. "Interactive Horseback Riding." 16 Nov. 1984. Horse News Yearbook. Online. Kids

Online. 12 Sept. 1997.

Interviews

Interviewee last name, First name. Type of interviews (phone, mail, e-mail, personal). Day month year.

Lyon, Cynthia. Personal interview. 17 Dec. 1997.

Television Programs

Title. Producer or director. Show. Network or station, City. Day month year.

Modern Sports Heroes. Prod. Muscles Malone. PBS Special. KABC, Chicago. 6 Sept. 1996.
  • Your bibliography should be listed on a separate sheet of paper. It will become the last page of your report. It must include all of the sources of information that you have read, used or consulted in order to write the report. It is very important that you give proper credit to your sources.
  • Bibliographic entries are alphabetized by the first word of each entry. Ignore the words a, an, and the when you are alphabetizing your list of sources.
  • Bibliographic entries are NOT numbered.
  • The second and additional lines of a bibliographic entry are indented.
  • Individual entries are single spaced; double space between entries.
  • Search engines such as Yahoo, Ask JeEes, and Google are not web addresses. Use the web address found in the address bar to cite a web page.

Below is a sample bibliography.

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

Adams,Lois. Getting to Know Inventors. Philadelphia: Scholastic Publishing, 2001.

"Christopher Columbus." World Book Encyclopedia. 1990.

"Explorers." Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. Softkey Multimedia.1996.

Jones, Henry. "Inventions of My Generation." The New York Times 5 Jan. 1983:

35-38.

"Tropical Rainforests." Apr. 1999. http://www.rainforestsareus.com/2001.southamerica (retrieved 12 Oct. 2001.)

Wright, William. Interview in person. 12 Mar. 2002.