Due to software differences the following citation formats might appear incorrectly. When writing your own citations, remember that when neccessary, each citation should be double-spaced and the second line should be indented.

Books with One Author

Format:

Last name of Author, First name of Author. Title. Place of Publication:

Publisher, Date of Publication.

Example:

Fairbanks, Carol. Prairie Women: Images in American and Canadian Fiction. New Haven: Yale UP,

1986.

Books with More than one Author

Format:

Last name of first author, First name of first author and name of second author. Book Title. Place of

Publication: Publisher, Date of Publication.

Example:

Baldwin, Bill and Frank Smith. Nigeria Unleashed. New York: Random House, 1994.

Book with No Author Named

Format:

Book Title. Place of Publication: Publisher, Date of Publication.

Example:

Photography Basics. Sydney: Down Under Publisher, 1988.

Print Encyclopedia

Format:

Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. "Article Title." Encyclopedia Title. Edition. Date of

Publication.

Example:

Granson, Brett. "Information Age." New Collegiate Encyclopedia. 14th ed. 1987.

(Note: Very often encyclopedia articles don't have an author listed. In this case, start the citation with the article title.)

Printed Newpaper article

(Taken straight from a printed newspaper or fische.)

Format:

Last name of author, First name of author. "Article title." Newspaper Title Day Month (abbr.) Year,

Edition: Page number(s).

Example:

Fuerbringer, Jonathan. "Budgetary Rhythms." New York Times 20 Mar. 1987, late ed.: A8.

Online Newspaper article

(Taken from an Online Database like Proquest, SIRS or Electric Library.)

Format:

Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. "Title of Article." Newspaper Title Day Month (abbr.)

Year: Pages. Title of Service. Access Location, Day Month Year accessed <URL of service>.

Example:

Drake, Ben. "Learning the Hard Way: Teens in Prison." LA Times 21 June 1991: C1.

Electric Library. Trabuco Hills High School Library, 5 Sept. 1997

<http://www.elibrary.com>.

Printed Magazine article

(Taken straight from a magazine or fische.)

Format:

Last name of author, First name of author. "Article title." Magazine Title Day Month (abbr.) Year:

Pages.

Example:

Prince, Dinah. "Marriage in the '80s." Vogue 1 June 1987: 30-38.

Online Magazine article

(Taken from an Online Database like Proquest, Electric Library or SIRS.)

Format:

Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. "Title of Article." Magazine Title Day Month (abbr.)

Year: Pages. Title of Service. Access Location, Day Month Year accessed <URL of service>.

Example:

Jeffries, Gillian. "The New Generation of Athletes." Sports Illustrated 14 Feb. 1988: 41-47.

Proqust Direct. Trabuco Hills High School Library, 10 Jan. 1997

<http://www.proquest.com>.

Web Page/Internet Site

Format:

Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. Homepage Title. Publisher or Provider. Creation Day

Month (abbr.) Year. <URL>.

Example:

Guseman, Jennifer. The Definitive Music Homepage. PacBell Systems. 12 Sept. 1995.

<http://www.musicnotes.com>.

(Note: Very often when citing Web pages the required informtion is incomplete. In this case, skip those sections and fill in what is available.)

Online Encyclopedia

Format:

"Article Title." Title of Encyclopedia. Publishing Day Month Year. Publisher. Access Day Month

Year <URL of Service>.

Example for Britannica Online:

"Music in the Renaissance." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. 1994-1999. Britannica Online, Inc.

19 Apr. 1997. <http://www.eb.com/>.

Example for CD-ROM Encyclopedia:

"Abraham Lincoln." Encarta CD-ROM Encyclopedia. 1994. Worldwide Encarta Encyclopedia.

10 Feb. 1999.