The works cited section of your research paper should list all the sources you have used in your paper. Do not include sources that do not appear in the documentation of your paper. Each entry in your list should have three main divisions--author, title, and publication information--each followed by a period and two spaces. Note that these sample entries are numbered for convenience and correspond with the entries listed on page fourteen.

  • DO NOT NUMBER THE ENTRIES on your Works Cited page.
  • Alphabetize entries on the Works Cited page using the author's last name.
  • Double-space the entire Works Cited page and note that your last name and a page number should appear in the upper right corner. See sample.
  • Use shortened forms of publishers' names. Give Harcourt as the publisher's name, even if the title page lists Harcourt Brace. Omit articles (a, an, the), business abbreviations (Co., Corp., Inc., Ltd.), and descriptive words (Books, House, Press, Publishers). When citing a university press, add UP (Ohio State UP). When citing the publisher, use the last name alone. Example: W. W. Norton would be listed as Norton.
Books Periodicals Online Cobb Online Resources Other Sources

 

PERIODICALS (Magazine articles and newspapers)

  1. Article in a monthly magazine
  2. Article in a weekly or biweekly magazine
    Elson, John T. "Much Ado." Time 19 Jan. 1976: 17.
  3. Newspaper article (unsigned)
  4. Newspaper article (signed)
  5. Journal articles with pages numbered continuously through each year
    Aldridge, A. O. "The Sources of Hamlet." New England Quarterly 27 (1954): 388-91.

    Note: In a range of numbers, give only the last two digits of the second number, unless more are necessary, for example 103-04; 395-401.
  6. Journal articles with pages numbered separately for each issue

  7. Editorial
  8. Review
    Johnson, Paul A.  Rev. of Centennial, by James Michener. New Yorker 21 Oct. 1981: 121-22.
  9. Signed article in a reference book

  10. Publication on diskette


  11. Article reprinted in literary reference book (like Contemporary Literary Criticism)

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