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

 

BOOKS

  1. Book with one author
    Burns, Olive Ann. Cold Sassy Tree. New York: Tricknor, 1984.

  2. Book with two authors or editors
    Ashby, Eric, and Mary Anderson. The Rise of the Student in Britain. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1970.

  3. Book with three or more authors or editors
    Sebranek, Patrick, et al. Write for College. Wilmington, MA: Write Source, 1997.

    Siegal, Mark, et al. eds. Gambling. Wylie, Texas: Information Plus, 1994.
  4. Source without an author's name
    A Guide to Australia. Sydney: Australian Information Service, 1982.

  5. Work of more than one volume
    a) One volume of a multi-volume work.
    State the number of the volume; give publication information for that volume alone. Give only page numbers when you refer to that work in the text.


    b) Two or more volumes of a multi-volume work
    State the total number of volumes before the publication information. Specific references to volume and page numbers ("3:212-13") belong in the text.


  6. Two or more works by the same author
    Give the author's name in the first entry only; thereafter, type three hyphens in place of the name.

    Lehan, Richard D. F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Craft of Fiction. New York: Viking, 1966.

    ---. Of Heroic Proportions in Literature of the Twentieth Century. New York: Viking, 1966.
  7. Indirect source:
    Cite the work that contains the indirect quote. See page 16, no. 7.

  8. Work by a corporate author:
    American Medical Association: You and Your Health. Washington: Jossey, 1982.

  9. Essay in a collection:
  10. Long work in an anthology
  11. Edition other than the first
    Bailey, Sydney D. British Parliamentary Democracy. 3rd ed. Boston: Houghton, 1971.
  12. Edited collection or anthology (one editor)
    Mitchell, Jack M., ed. The Poetry of Robert Frost. New Haven: Yale UP, 1975.
  13. Translation
    Hesse, Hermann. Beneath the Wheel. Trans. Michael Roloff. New York: Farrar, 1968.
  14. Edited work
    Arnold, Matthew. God and the Bible. Ed. R. H. Silverman. Ann Arbor: Michigan UP, 1970.
  15. Book in a series

  16. Paperback edition
    Ardrey, Robert. The Social Contract. 1955. New York: Dell, Laurel Edition, 1974.
  17. Introduction, preface, foreward, or afterword


    Note: If the introduction, preface, foreward, or afterword is written by anyone other than the author, use the full name after the word "By."
    Example:

  18. Pamphlets and bulletins
  19. Essay in a book that is a Series (like Taking Sides and Opposing Viewpoints)
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