How to Create a Bibliography or Works Cited Sheet


Internet Source:

How to: Title of Website. "Title of Article." Author. Date. < URL >.
example: Nickelodeon.com. "Spongebob Squarepants." Nick.com. December 1, 2004. < http://www.nick.com/all_nick/tv_supersites/spongebob/main.jhtml >.


Books

How to: Author. Title. Place of publication: Publisher, date.
example: Barron, T.A. The Fires of Merlin. New York: Ace Books, 2000.

Book by two or three authors:
example #1: Brooks, Cleanth Jr., and Robert Penn Warren. Understanding Fiction. New York: Appleton, 1943.
example #2: McCrum, Robert, William Cran, and Robert MacNeil. The Story of English. New York: Viking, 1986.

Book by four or more authors:
example: Lauer, Janice, et al. Four Worlds of Writing. 2nd ed. New York: Harper, 1985.
Note: Give the name of the first author listed on the title page and add "et al," which stands for "et alia" ("and others").

Book with an editor:
example #1: Burack, Sylvia, ed. The Writer's Handbook. Boston: The Writer Inc., 1976.

Book with an author and an editor:
example: Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary. Ed. Paul de Man. New York: Norton, 1965.

Collection or anthology:
example: Baker, Houston, Jr. Black Literature in America. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971.




Disclaimer: Much of this information is directly quoted from The Skidmore Guide to Writing.
The Skidmore Guide to Writing. Skidmore College. December 1, 2004. < http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/english/ENGLISH_DEPT_HP/WG/WGFRAMES.html >.