Citing Sources



Kinds of Resources
  • Print Resources
  • Electronic Resources (CD-ROM)
  • Internet Resources
  • Sample Works Cited List

Samples of Citing Resources - Note: The citations used have been altered and are for example only!

Print Resources

Books

Provide the following information:

  • author(s) or editor
  • title of book is underlined or in italics
  • place of publication
  • publisher
  • date of publication

BOOK BY A SINGLE AUTHOR -Brown, Michael. Voices From Vietnam. New York: Scholastic, 1995.
BOOKS WITH MORE THAN TWO AUTHORS -Dadd, Debra L. and Herbert A. Simon. The Nontoxic Home and Office . New York: Putnam's Sons, 1992.
BOOK WITH THE AUTHOR'S NAME MISSING - Are You Being Poisoned? New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
BOOK WITH ONE EDITOR -Rae, Noel, ed. Witnessing America: The Library of Congress Book of Firsthand Accounts of Life in America 1600-1900. New York: Penguin Books, 1996.

Collections

A poem, Short Story, Essay, or a Chapter from a Book that is a collection of several authors' work.

Welty, Eudora. "At the Corner Store." American Poets. Ed. Gerald Levin. New York: Harcourt, 1995.

Encyclopedia Articles (Print)

An Encyclopedia Article (with no author) -"Fire Fighting." The World Book Encyclopedia. 1995 ed.

An Encyclopedia Article (with an author) -Bates, William."France." The World Book Encyclopedia.1995 ed.

Magazine & Newspaper Articles (Print)

Provide the following information:

  • author
  • title of article in quotation marks
  • title of magazine or newspaper underlined or in italics
  • date of issue
  • page numbers

An Article from a print Magazine (not on the internet) -Cain, William. "Big Business of the Nineties." Business Week. 16 August 1998. 19-22.

An Article from a Newspaper (not on the internet) -Johnston, Noah. "Tobacco Ads Aimed At Teens." New York Times. 22 January 1998,sec.C:12.

Interviews

A Personal Interview-Mason, Robert. Personal Interview. 26 January 1999.

Electronic Resources CD-ROM

An Article from an Encyclopedia Article CD-ROM
"France." World Book Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. World Book Corporation, 1999.
"Germany." Encarta Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. Microsoft, 1998.
"Italy." Grolier Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. Grolier, 1997.

An Article from an Individual CD-ROM

Provide the following information:

  • title of underlined or in italics
  • publication format
  • place of publication & publisher
  • publication date

Cartopedia. CD-ROM. New York: Dorling-Kindersley, 1995.

Internet Resources

Web Sites
Provide the following information:
  • author's name (if known)
  • full title of the document in quotation marks
  • title of the complete work if applicable underlined or in italics
  • date of publication or alst revision (if available)
  • the full URL enclosed in angle brackets <>
  • date of your visit to the internet

Smith, Andrew. "Amusements in Colonial Times." The Noah Webster House Museum. 25 March 2000.<http://www.ctstateu.edu/noahweb/amusements.html>10 September 2001. 

An Article from Encarta Encyclopedia on the Internet - "Dinosaurs." Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia.<http:encarta.msn.com>.
Microsoft Corporation. Accessed 10 September 2001.
Magazine or Newspaper article found through an on-line Database service like, EBSCO, Gale Group

Provide the following information:
  • author's Last Name, First Name 
  • full title of the document in quotation marks
  • Article's original source an publication date: page numbers
  • Product Name (on0line database).
  • Publisher & Date.
  • <electronic address>
  • date researchers visited site

Women's Roles during the Civil War, 1861-1865." DISCovering U.S. History.Gale Research, 1997.Available from Discovering Collection. Gale Group. December, 2000. <http://www.galenet.com>. Accessed 10 September 2001.

Carpenter, Suzanne. "Confederate Spy." Cobblestone. 10 December 1999:18.Available from Middle Search Plus On-line. EBSCO Publishing. 2001. <http://search.epnet.com > Accessed 10 September 2001.

Works Cited

Brown, Michael. Voices From Vietnam. New York: Scholastic, 1995.   (Book)

Cain, William. "Big Business of the Nineties." Business Week. 16 August 1998: 19-22. (Magazine in print)

Carpenter, Suzanne. "Confederate Spy." Cobblestone. 10 December 1999:18.
Available from Middle Search Plus On-line. EBSCO Publishing. 2003. <http://search.epnet.com>. Accessed 10 September 2003. (Magazine database)

Cartopedia. CD-ROM. New York: Dorling-Kindersley,1995. (Individual CD-ROM)

"Dinosaurs."World Book Online Reference Center Encyclopedia.2003. World Book Corporation. < http://www.worldbook.com> Accessed 10 September 2003. (Encyclopedia Online)

"Fire Fighting." The World Book Encyclopedia. 1995 ed. (Encyclopedia in Print)

"France." World Book Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. World Book Corporation, 1999. (Encyclopedia in CD-ROM format)

Galvich, S. Mary. "St. Jude." All The Saints of the Roman Calendar and More. Maryland: Loyola University Press, 1994. (Information Cards)

Smith, Andrew. "Amusements in Colonial America." The Noah Webster House Museum. 25 March 2001. 
<http: www.ctstateu.edu/noahweb/amusements.html>Accessed 10 September 2001. (Internet)

"Theodore Roosevelt with the Rough Riders during the Spanish American War (1898)." Picture. American Stock/Archive Photos. Available from Image
Collection On-line. EBSCO Publishing. 2002. <http://search.epnet.com>11 November 2002.

"Women's Roles during the Civil War, 1861-1865." DISCovering U.S. History.Gale Research, 1997. Available from Discovering Collection. Gale Group.
2003 <http://www.galenet.com> Accessed 10 September 2003. (database)

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