MARKVILLE SECONDARY SCHOOL

 

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Works Cited Guidelines

 

Book by one author

Stanley, George G.F.  The Birth of Western Canada.

Toronto:  Longmans, 1936.

 

Book by two authors

Houghton, W. and R. Strange. Victorian Poetry. Cambridge:

Harvard University Press, 1959.

 

Book by three or more authors

Moon, Truman H. et al.  Modern Biology.  New York:

Simon and Schuster, 1961.

 

Book with no author or editor listed

The Physics and Chemistry of Life.  New York:  Simon and

Schuster, 1955.

 

Book with an editor

Anderson, J.N.D., ed.  The World’s Religions.  London:

Inter-Varsity Fellowship, 1950.

 

A magazine or newspaper article

Cohen, Henning.  “The Boss Brass.”  Saturday Review.

16 August 1969: 19-21

 

An encyclopedia article

Thompson, Lawrence.  “Robert Frost”.  Encyclopedia

Britannica.  1977 ed.

 

An unsigned encyclopedia article

            “Mandarin”.  Encyclopedia Americana.   1976 ed.

 

Computer software

Soldan, Theodore, and J.D. Spain.  Population Growth.

Computer Software. Conduit, 1984.

 

CD-ROM

La Roi, George H. “Boreal Forest”.  The Canadian

Encyclopedia Plus (CD ROM). Available:

McClelland & Stewart, Inc. 1995

 

Telnet site

Gomes, Lee.  “Xerox’s On-Line Neighborhood:  A Great

Place to Visit.” Mercury News 3 May 1992.

telnet lambda.parc.xerox.com 8888, @ go

#50827, press 13 (5 Dec. 1994)

 

World Wide Web site

To cite files available for viewing/downloading via the WorldWide Web, give the author’s name (if known), the full title of the work in quotation marks, the title of the complete work if applicable underlined or in italics, the full http address, and the date of access (the date you visited the site)

Burka, Lauren P.  “A Hypertext History of Multi-User Dimensions.” MUD History.  http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lpb/mud-history.html

(5 Dec. 1994).


Films, videotapes, filmstrips, slide programs

Alzheimer’s Disease.  Videocassette.  Prod. Hospital

Network.  American. Nursing, 1985. 28 min

 

Interviews

            Pei, I.M.  Personal interview.  27 July 1990.

 

 

Recordings

Berlioz, Hector.  Symphonie fantastique, op. 14.  Cond.

Herbert von Karajan. Berlin Philharmonic.

Deutsche Grammophon, 2530 596, 1975.

 

 

Use a STANDARD FORMAT such as the one given below. Indicate, in two places, exactly where you obtained your information:

 

 

a)      CITATIONS or bracketed notes right in the text of your essay

b)      WORKS CITED list at the end of your essay

 

Provide citations whenever you use a summary in your own words of someone else’s ideas, a direct quotation, or a table, chart, or diagram taken from someone else’s work

 

Your own independent ideas and those facts that are considered common knowledge are not footnoted.  For example, the fact that Columbus discovered America in 1492 is common knowledge and would not require a footnote.

 

 

Each bracketed note or citation must POINT directly to the entry for this source in the Works Cited list.

·        If there is only one work by a particular author, simply give author’s last name and the page number.

(Walker 12)

·         If a work has two authors, give the last name of each and the page number:

(Moore and Smith 310-14)

·        If the Works Cited list contains more than one work by the same author, include the title and the page number in the citation:

(Stevens, Radioactive Waste 299)

 

Identify the LOCATION of the borrowed information as specifically as possible.

 

·        include volume number where relevant:

(Smith 2:  123)

 

·        in literary works give specific information such as act, scene, and line numbers:

(Shakespeare, King Lear II, i, 22)

 

·        omit page numbers for one page articles or works arranged alphabetically, e.g. encyclopedias.