Bibliographies
Bibliographies can be so confusing...Don't you wish there was a Webpage that outlined the rules of citing sources
and bibliography layout? Well now there is! This site should help you with any bibliography blues you may be feeling
by clearly explaining and giving examples of how your cited sources should look!
All these examples use the same set-up as your teacher, called APA Style.
Citing Sources From a Book?
Book Citations -- When you need to use a quote from a book in your paper, of course you put it in quotations,
but then what? How do you let people know where it's from? Well after the quote you put the author's name, a comma,
the date the book was published, another comma,
and the page the quote is found on (p., or pp.), in parentheses...Like this:
EX:
"That's her explanation for why Dad has to run off at two o'clock
in the morning on urgent business. I honestly used to believe that
somewhere there was a jammed-up soda machine, and my dad had to
rush off in the dead of night and fix it. Hey, I was four."
(Korman, 2002,pp.13-14)
OK so now you know how to cite a book in your paper, but what about the bibliography at the end?
That's a cinch...Once you know how, it's a piece of cake! In your bibliography your sources should all be
in alphabetical order and it should look like this...
Author (last name, first initial). (date published). Book title with only first
word capitalized. city published, state or province: publisher.
Ex:
Korman, G. (2002). Son of the mob. Toronto, Ontario: Scholastic Canada.
Periodicals or Journals
Journal or Periodical Citations--(Otherwise known as Magazines:)These are pretty much the same as citations for a
book...you include: Authors' name, a comma, the publication date, another comma, and the page or pages the quote is
found on (using p. or pp.). All this information should be in parentheses.
For your Bibliography it should look like this:
Williams, D. (2002, February). In fair Verona: Answers for the lovelorn.The
Washington Post, p.A01. Retrieved February 9, 2003 from General
Reference Center, Infotrac Database.
You would only include the Database name, and date the information was retrieved, if you had gotten the information from an online source.
Electronic References!!
Web or Internet Based References -- It is more difficult to cite references from web documents
because sometimes they do not provide a lot of information.
Whenever possible you should try to include:
- Document title or description.
- Either date of publication or date you got the information, or both!
- Web address or URL.
- Author's name(s) whenever possible.
When citing a source in your paper, it should look like this:
As Mock (2000, para. 3) states, "The cashew is part of a fruit that grows in tropical regions called 'a cashew apple'".
In your bibliography it should look like this:
Author. (Year). Article title. Journal title, volume,page or paragraph.
publication date and/or date you found the info[month day, year] from
[electronic address]
EX:
Monk, J. (2000). Food and drink. The useless facts website, para 3. Retrieved
02/11/03 from http://www.angelfire.com/ca6/uselessfacts
