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Creating bibliography entries

Web Site

Bibliography Format

Author's name, last name first (if available). "Article or Web page title," Web site title, URL,
  access date.

Bibliography Example

Fisher, Bob. "The Age of Chivalry or the Legends of King Arthur," Bulfinch's Mythology,
  http://www.bulfinch.org/tales/welcome.html, May 27, 2001.


Web Encyclopedia

Bibliography Format

Author's name, last name first (if available). "Article or Web page title," Web site title, URL,
  access date, city: producer. City: producer

Bibliography Example

Beasley, Maurine H. "Roosevelt, Eleanor," World Book Online,
  http://www.worldbookonline.com, May 27, 2001, Chicago: World Book, Inc.


CD-ROM Encyclopedia

Bibliography Format

Author's name, last name first (if available). "Article title," Encyclopedia title, version,
  producer, edition or copyright or publication date.

Bibliography Example

"Isaac Asimov," UXL Biographies, Version 2.0, Gale Group, 1999.


Online Periodical

Bibliography Format

Author's name, last name first (if available). "Article title," Journal title, publication date, page
  number(s) of entire article. (if given) Electronic source. Date accessed. URL of source.

Bibliographic Example

Davis, Lloyd Spencer, "A superlative penguin.", Natural History, 11-01-2001, p 46.
  Electric Library Plus. 4 December 2001. http://www.elibrary.com/s/plus


Print Encyclopedia

Bibliography format

Author's name, last name first (if available). "Article title," Encyclopedia title, edition or
  publication or copyright date, volume number, page number(s) of entire article.

Bibliography example

McGrath, William J. "Vienna," The World Book Encyclopedia, 2001, Vol. 20, pp. 362-363.


Book

Bibliography Format

Author, last name first. Book title. City: Publisher, date.

Bibliography Example

Gordon, Karen Elizabeth. The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar. New York:
  Cahill, 1985.


Magazine Article

Bibliography Format

Author's name, last name first (if available). "Article title." Magazine title, publication volume
  and issue number (where applicable), publication date, including month, day, and year (where   applicable), page numbers of entire article.

Bibliography Example

Van Dyk, Jere. "The Long Journey of the Pacific Salmon." National Geographic, vol. 178, no.
  1, July 1990, pp. 3-37.


Newspaper Article

Bibliography Format

Author's name, last name first (if available). "Article title." Newspaper title, publication date,
  including month, day, and year (where applicable), section (where applicable), page numbers of entire article.

Bibliography Example

Andreoni, Phyllis. "Program Enrolls Elderly." Union-News, July 4, 1990, sec. 1, p. 9.


For More Help...

For additional help, see the links at Exploring The Web. You can also use the Slate Citation Machine to create citations you can copy and paste into your bibliography.