The Works Cited Page

When providing bibliographic information, underline and italics may be used for titles of books and journals, and are treated equally (as long as you are consistent); however, make sure you put titles of articles and chapters in "quotation marks." Separate parts of citations with periods.

In the humanities, citations are preferred in the following form:

For books:

Author (last name, first name). Title of book. Place of publication: Publisher. Date.

For articles:

Author (last name, first name). "Title of Article." Title of Journal. Volume Number: Issue Number (Date): pages.

For Web sites:

Author (last name, first name, if available, or file or sponsor). "Title of article or posting." [Size of article, if relevant.] Publication information, if available. Date of publication. Date retrieved. <Web site>.

Examples:

Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding. London: Chatto & Windus. 1967.

Sill, Geoffrey M. "Crusoe in the Cave: Defoe and the Semiotics of Desire." Eighteenth-Century Fiction. 6:3 (1994): 215-232.

N, J. B.. "Review of The Hobbit." 1997. 1 April 1998. <http://www.bookpage.com/webboard/children's-messages/54.html >.

Citations for the humanities are listed in a Works Cited page alphabetically by the author's last name.

Citations in both the social and natural sciences appear in the following form:

For books:

Author (last name, first name). Year. Title. Place of Publication: Publisher. Page numbers if relevant.

For journals:

Author (last name, first name). Year. "Title of article." Journal Name. V.Volume Number, pages.

For Web sites:

Author (last name, first name, if available, or file or sponsor). "Title of article or posting." [Size of article, if relevant.] Publication information. Date of publication. Date retrieved. <URL>

Examples:

Budd, E.C. 1967. Inequality and Poverty. New York. Norton.

Dalton, George. 1963. "Economic surplus, once again." American Anthropologist. V.65, 389-396.

Harner, Michael J. 1967. "Jivaro souls." Gods and Rituals. Ed. J. Middleton. New York: Natural History Press. 177-196.

Mathews, J. Preface. Numerical Methods for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering. 2^nd ed. N.p.: Prentice Hall, 1992. 8 June 1999. <ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/netlib/textbook/index.html >.

Shepard, Roger N. 1962a. "The analysis of proximities." Psychometrika. V.27, 125-140.

_______________. 1962b. "The analysis of proximities." Psychometrika. V.27, 219-246.

In the last two examples, the same author has written two articles with the same title in the same year (hence the importance of page numbers); therefore, they are cited by the year followed by a and b. When citing articles from scientific journals, it would behoove you to consult the "Instructions to Authors" that are printed at least once a year in each journal (usually in January).

Citations for the sciences are listed in a Works Cited page in the order in which you cite them.

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