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Format for the "WORKS CITED" section:

A Book By One Author

English, Carol. The Cliffs Won't Do: Read the Book. Philadelphia : McGraw Hill, 1997.

Two or More Books by the Same Author

Small, Chris. Please, Help Me Carry My Keys! Topeka : Rand , 1993.

- - - . Don't Measure a Chemist by Her Size. New York : Feminist, 1993.

A Book By Two Authors

Drucker, Darla and Amy Jones. How to Survive Your Wedding. New York : Simon and

     Schuster, 1997.

A Book by Three Authors

          Simpson, Homer, Bugs Bunny, and Charlie Brown.  Cartoon Life is a Drag. Los Angeles : Warner

               Bros., 2004.

A Book by a Corporate Author

Springfield Township Home Economics Department. Cooking with Spice. New York :

     Scribners, 1993.

A Book with an Editor

Valenza, Joyce ed. Bagels and Books: An Anthology. Brooklyn , NY : Random House,

     1991.

A Work in an Anthology

Smith, James. "The Physics of Sushi." The Fabulous Physics Paper . Ed. Samuel Klein.

      Rome : Cambridge UP, 1854. 46-59.

A Work (Essay, Story, etc.) in an Anthology Previously Published in Another Collection

Girard, Rene. "Hamlet's Dull Revenge." Literary Theory / Renaissance Texts. Ed. Patricia

     Parker and David Quint.  Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP, 1986. 280-302.  Rpt. in Major Literary

     Characters: Hamlet.  Ed. Harold Bloom. New York : Chelsea House, 1990. 166-185.

An Edition Other Than the First

Peters, Michael. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Keeping Your Classroom

     Neat and Clean . 4th ed. Philadelphia : Lysol, 1995.

A Signed Article in a Reference Book

Copaset, Sandra. "Zen and the Art of Wearing Blue and Khaki." Encyclopedia Americana .

     1996 ed.

An Unsigned Article in a Reference Book

"Best Beards of All Time." Encyclopedia of Anatomy and Hair . 15th ed. 1993.

An Article in a Journal with Continuous Pagination

Skater, Andrew. "Rollerblading on a Secondary Level." Secondary Education 54(1990):

     113-25.

An Article From a Monthly or Bi-Monthly Periodical

Ramsey, Pamela. "Where's My Smiley Face?" MacWorld Sept. 1997: 86-94.

An Article from a Weekly or Biweekly Periodical

Henry, Mary Ann. "Announcing Bus Changes With Flair." Time 4 July 1991: 17-76.

A Signed Article from a Daily Newspaper

Goldberg, Grace. "The Inside Track: Alumni Life." Trojan Times 10 Oct. 1991: 17.

Smith, Bob. “Schools Losing Ground.” USA Today 5 May 2001:5D.

An Unsigned Article from a Daily Newspaper

"Striking a Pose With Sally Miles." New York Times 15 Oct. 1997, late ed. sec.: 35+.

A Critical Analysis, Signed Excerpt / Previously Published Scholarly Article (Option #1) 

        (Check for your teacher's preferred option.)

           Ross, Stephan S. "Tom Wolfe." Rpt. of "The Rhetoric of the Right Stuff." 

               Journal of General Education 33 (1981): 113-22.  Rpt. in Contemporary 

               Literary Criticism. Ed.  Daniel G. Marowski. 35: 458-460. 

A Critical Analysis, Signed Excerpt (Option # 2)  (Check for your teacher's preferred option.)

          Ross, Stephan S. "Tom Wolfe."  Contemporary  Literary Criticism. Ed.  Daniel G. Marowski. 

               35: 458-460. 

Facts on File

"Berger's Greatest Speeches." Facts on File World News Digest 3 Sept. 1998: 535.

SIRS (Print Notebooks)

McLaughlin, Janet. "AP History--The McLaughlin Group." Forbes  June 1993: 21-23.

     History. Ed. by Eleanor Goldstein. Vol. 5. Boca Raton , Fla : Social Issues Resources

     Series, 1995. Art. 35.

Films; Radio and Television Programs

"Starring the Other Peggy Lee." Slightly Off Broadway--The Series . Prod. Sheldon Wang.

     PBS. WNET, New York . 6 Aug. 1995.  

Making Creative Bookcovers. Dir. Tom Martin. Videocassette. Clemens, 1997.

Sound Recording

         Jones, Norah. "Don't Know Why."  Come Away With Me. Rec. 2001. Blue Note, 2002.

Personal or Telephone Interview

Craig, John. Personal interview. 23 Sept. 1994.

Personal photograph (Good for your scanned images!)

(Begin with a description of the photo. Do not use italics or quotation marks. Indicate who took the photo and the date it was taken.)

Grandpa Al at Home. Personal photograph by Susan Student. 28 May 2003.

Citing works within your text:

To document your sources, cite the author's name and the page number of the source in

parentheses at the end of the sentence, before the final period:

     Lowfat cream cheese can save you 300 grams of fat per year (Valenza 35).

If the author's name is used in your sentence you may just refer to page numbers:

     Copaset argues that "yellow simply does not interact well with khaki" (45).

If you are referring to the whole work rather than a specific section, you may omit any

reference in parentheses:

     Berger's main thesis is that by using motifs, organic unity is easier to achieve.

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