Electronic Resources

Internet Resources

Formatting the Works Cited page

The top margin for the Works Cited page should be set at 2".  Left, right and bottom margins should be 1".  Type the title, Works Cited, with the first letter of each word capitalized.  Center the title on the page and triple space after the title.  Begin each Works Cited entry at the left margin.  If the entry takes up more than one line, indent the next line(s) 5 spaces.  Alphabetize works cited entries by the first letter of the first word of each entry, whether it is an author's last name, editor's last name, or the title (excluding a, an,or the).    Double space entries that take up two or more lines and double space between each reference.  See an example Works Cited page. 
 

• A book with one author 

Jones, Royce. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Chicago: MacMillan, 1988. 

• A book with two authors

Neal, Sandra Ann and Susan Gray. The Women of Florence. New Haven: 

Yale UP, 1989. 

•  A book with more than two authors (et al means "and others" in Latin)

Ottoman, James, et. al. Exploring Architecture. 2nd ed. New York: Bantam, 

1997. 

• A book with one editor, but no author

Sanders, Ann, ed. Diary of a Friendship. Cambridge, Harvard UP, 1994. 
 
 

• A book with two or three editors, but no author

Tyson, James and Tom L. Gray, eds. African-American Poetry. New York: 

MacMillan, 1995. 345-58. 

• A book with no author and no editor

Primary Reference Books. 1995 ed. New York: Bowker, 1995. 

• An Introduction, Preface, Foreword, or Afterword

Brewer, Robert. Preface. The Works of James Joyce.  By Jacob Lewis. 

New York: Baker & Taylor, 1992. 1-7. 

•   A novel or a play from a book that is a collection of several novels or plays

Serling, Rod. Requiem for a Heavyweight. Modern American Plays. Ed. Robert 

J. Corbinet and Mariam Balf.  New York: Scribner's, 1973. 57-89.

• A Poem, short story, essay, or a chapter from a book that is a collection of several authors' works

Welty, Eudora. "At the Corner Store." American Poets. Ed. Gerald Levin. New 

York: Harcourt, 1995. 20-23. 

• A Poem, short story, essay, or a chapter from a collection of works by one author

Anson, Margaret. "My Mama." Poems. New York: Doubleday, 1989. 11-12. 

• An encyclopedia article (with no author)

"Fire Fighting." The World Book Encyclopedia. 1995 ed. 

• An encyclopedia article (with an author)

Bates, William. "Angelou, Maya." The World Book Encyclopedia. 1995 ed. 

•  An article from a print magazine (not on the computer or internet)

Cain, William. "Big Business of the Nineties." Business Week. 16 Aug 1998. 

19-21. 

• A newspaper article ( print version, not Internet)

James, Noah. "The Book Everyone Loves to Hate." New York Times. 22 Jan 

1998, sec C: 12. 

•  A signed review

Quincy, James. "Glass Houses." Rev. of Big Bucks and the Movie Business. 

By Alison Hartz. People.  Aug. 1993: 76-80.

• An unsigned, untitled review

Review of "Jurassic Park." American Film. Mar 1989: 78-90. 

•  A personal interview

Mason, Robert. Personal Interview. 26 Jan 1999. 
 
 
 
 

• A Literary Criticism from a Collection of Criticisms (Gale's Twentieth Century Literary Criticism,  Contemporary Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, etc.)

Roberts, Shelia. "A Confined World: A Rereading of Pauline Smith." World 

Literature Written in English. 24 (1984): 232-38. Twentieth-Century 

Literary Criticism. Ed. David Pope. Vol. 25. Detroit: Gale, 1988. 

399-402.

• An essay from Critical Survey of Long Fiction

Simon, Linda. "Thornton Wilder." Critical Survey of Long Fiction. Ed. 

Frank N. McGill. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1983. 

2880-2888. 
 

  An essay from Critical Survey of Poetry

Matlak, Richard E.  "Percy Bysshe Shelley."  Critical Survey of Poetry. 

Ed. Frank N. Magill. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Salem Press, 1982. 
 
2544-2561. 
 
  An article from Novels for Students

Wood, Michael. "Crying for Attention." New York Review of Books. 

(10 June 1976): 8. Novels for Students.  Ed. Diane Telgen. Vol. 1. 

Detroit: Gale, 1997. 110-115. 

 

• An article from British Women Fiction Writers 

Peterson, Linda H. "Harriet Martineau: Masculine Discourse, Female 

Sage." Victorian Sages and Cultural Discourse. Ed. Thais E. 

Morgan. (1990): 175-76.  British Women Fiction Writers of 

the 19th Century. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea 

House, 1998. 175-177. 

Sayers, Dorothy L.  "Introduction."  Great Short Stories of Detection,  

Mystery and Horror.  (London: Victor Gollancz, 1928): 17-18. 

Classic Mystery Writers. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea 

House, 1995.  108-109.

• An article from Dictionary of American Biography
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  (author's initials are at the end of each article--look up their names in the front of the book) 

Allen, Hervey. "Poe, Edgar Allan." Dictionary of American Biography. 

Ed. Dumas Malone. New York: Scribner's, 1935. 19-28. 

 

  An article from Current Biography
 

"Hillerman, Tony." Current Biography Yearbook.  1992 ed. Ed. Judith 

Graham. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1992.  258-261. 

• An article from the Career Information Center books

"Respiratory Therapist." Career Information Center. New York: 

Simon & Schuster, 1996. 93-97. 

 
 
 

• An excerpt from a book in the Opposing Viewpoints series

Paglia, Camille. "Madonna Has Liberated American Women." 

excerpted from "Madonna II: Venus of the Radio Waves." The  

Independent on Sunday Review. (July 21, 1991). reprinted in 

Opposing Viewpoints: Women's Rights.  Ed. Fred Whitehead. 

San Diego: Greenhaven, 1994.

• An article, chapter or section from African Americans Voices of Triumph

"Soldiers in the Shadows." African American Voices of Triumph:  

Perseverance. Ed. Janet P. Cave. Alexandria, VA: Time Life 

Books, 126-179.

• An article from Writers for Young Adults

Goza, Elizabeth Wilder.  "Anne Frank." Writers for Young Adults. 

Ed. Ted Hipple.  New York: Scribner's, 1997.  423-431.

 
  An article from British Writers

Sandison, A.G. "Rudyard Kipling." British Writers. Ed. Ian 

Scott-Kilvert. New York: Scribner's, 1997. 729-770. 

 
 
  An article from Supernatural Fiction Writers

Smith, Curtis C.  "Robert Louis Stevenson." Supernatural Fiction  

Writers.  Ed. E. F. Bleiler. New York: Scribner's, 1985. 

307-313.  

• Twaynes Masterworks CD-ROM

"Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer." Twayne's Masterworks. CD-ROM. 

McMillan Library Reference, 1996.

• Worlds Best Poetry CD-ROM

Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Raven." World's Best Poetry on CD. 2nd ed. 

CD-ROM. Roth Publishing, 1996.

• Article from Encarta Encyclopedia CD-ROM

"Lewis Carroll." Encarta Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. Microsoft, 1996. 
 
 

•  Article from Discovering Biography CD-ROM

"Taft, William Howard." Discovering Biography. CD-ROM. Gale 

Research, 1996. 

• Article from Multimedia Animals Encyclopedia CD-ROM

"Rhinoceros." Multimedia Animals Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. 

Applied Optical Media. 1994. 

• Article from American Indian Encyclopedia CD-ROM

"Wichita Indians." American Indian Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. 

Facts on File, 1995. 

• Article from Britannica Encyclopedia on the Internet

"Zygotes." Britannica Online. 14 Mar 1999. <http://www.eb.com:180>. 
 
 

• Article from Discovering Authors/Science/History (GaleNet)

"Benjamin Franklin." Discovering World History. The Gale Group. 

Online. 14 Mar 1999. <http://galenet.gale.com/a/acp/db/dtcw/>. 

• Magazine or Newspaper Article found through Electric Library

Wooten, Bill. "Investigations of the Waco Incident." Dallas  

Morning News. May 8, 1995: C, 12-14. Electric Library. 

Online. 15 Jan 1999. <http://www.elibrary.com/education>. 
 

  Magazine or newspaper article found through UMI ProQuest

Leonard, Tom.  "Men Reject Call for New Controls on TV 

Violence."  The Daily Telegraph. Oct. 14, 1998: 10. 

ProQuest Direct.  Online. 12 Mar 1999 <http://proquest.umi.com/>. 

• Online texts

Nesbit, Edith. Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism. London, 

1908. Victorian Women Writers Project. Ed. Perry 

Willett. Apr. 1997. Indiana. 26 Mar 1998. 

<http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/>. 

• Poem found on the Internet

Arnold, Matthew. "The Buried Life." Empedocles on Etna,  

and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1852. 

Representative Poetry Online. Ed. I. Lancashire. 1997. 

University of Toronto. 14 Mar 1999. 

<http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/arnold8.html>.

• Internet Web Site maintained by a university, government or professional organization

Einstein: Image and Impact.  Aug. 1998. American Institute of 

Physics. 13 Mar 1999. <http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/>.

• Article from an online magazine, newspaper, or journal

Sklaroff, Sara. "E-mail Nation" U. S. News Online. 

22 Mar1999. 13 Mar 1999. 

<http://www2.USNews.com/usnews/issue/990322/22emai.htm>.

• A Web Page with an editor Listed

Rogers, Jay, ed. "What is the Wiccan Religion?" The  

Forerunner International. 20 Jan 1998. 

<http://www.forerunner.com/champion/.>

• A Web Page with an author's name listed

Carroll, Robert Todd. "Witches and Sorcerers." The  

Skeptic's Dictionary. 21 Feb 1998. 

<http://dcn.davis.ca.us/~btcarrol/skeptic/witches.html>.

• Personal web page

Lancashire, Ian. Home page. 1 Mar 1998. 

<http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~ian/index.html>.