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Format for Books
BOOK WITH ONE AUTHOR
Last name, First name. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Copyright Date.
Example:
King, Martin Luther. The Trumpet of
Conscience. New York:
Harper, 1968.
BOOK WITH TWO AUTHORS
Last name, First name, and First name Last Name. Title of
Book. City of Publication: Publisher,
Copyright Date.
Example:
Faber, Doris, and Harold Faber. The Assassination of
Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Watts, 1978.
EDITED BOOK
Last name, First name of editor, ed. Title of Book.
City of Publication:
Publisher, Copyright Date.
Example:
Sterling, Dorothy, ed. Speak out in Thunder
Tones. Garden City: Doubleday,1973.
ARTICLE OR ESSAY IN AN EDITED BOOK
Last name, First name. "Title of
Article or Essay." Title of Book. Ed. Editor’s First name
Last Name. City of Publication: Publisher, Copyright Date. Page
Numbers.
Example:
Lewis, David. "Martin Luther King, Jr." Black
Leaders of the 20th Century. Ed. John Franklin.
Urbana:
University of Illinois
Press, 1982. 277-303.
ONE VOLUME REFERENCE WORK
Last name, First name. "Title of Entry." Title
of Book. City of Publication: Publisher,
Copyright Date.Page
Numbers.
Example:
Koster, Ade. "King, Martin Luther,
Jr." American Reformers. New
York: H.W.Wilson, 1985. 500-03.
MULTIVOLUME REFERENCE WORK
Last name, First name. "Title of
Entry." Title of Book. Vol. number. City of Publication:
Publisher, Copyright
Date. Page Numbers.
Example: Ryan, Bryan.
"Martin Luther King, Jr." Contemporary Black Biography. Vol.
1. Detroit:
Gale Research, 1992.
130-06. Format for Periodicals or Magazines
MAGAZINE ARTICLE WITH AUTHOR (actual print magazine; not
from computer)
Last name, First name. "Title of
Article." Title of Magazine Day (if given) Month Year: Page
Numbers.
Example:
Johnson, Robert E. "How Dr. M.L. King Learned to Live
With Segregation Without Accepting It." Jet
14 Jan. 1991: 6-10.
MAGAZINE ARTICLE WITHOUT AUTHOR (actual print magazine; not
from computer)
"Title of Article." Title of Magazine
Day (if given) Month Year: Page Numbers.
Example:
"What Martin Luther King Would Do Now About: Drugs,
Poverty, and Black-Jewish Relations." Ebony
Jan. 1991: 27-28.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE WITH
AUTHOR (actual print newspaper; not from
computer)
Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Title
of Newspaper Day Month Year, Section (either name or number): Page Numbers.
Example:
Spielman, Fran. "It’s Too Much for the Average
Person." Chicago
Tribune 11 Oct. 2007, Metro: 9.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
WITHOUT AUTHOR (actual print newspaper;
not from computer)
"Title of Article." Title of Newspaper Day
Month Year, Section (either name or number): Page Numbers.
Example:
"Army Expanding Woman’s Role." Chicago Tribune 1 Sept. 1994,
News: 1. Format for Electronic
Sources
ARTICLE IN AN ONLINE
REFERENCE DATABASE
"Title of Article." Title
of Reference Book. Name of Service. Name of library that provides the
service, City, State. Date of Access. <electronic address>
Example:
"Martin Luther
King, Jr." Contemporary Authors. Biography Resource
Center. RHS Library, Norridge, IL
.
9 Sept. 2001. <http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC>
MAGAZINE OR NEWSPAPER
ARTICLE WITH AUTHOR FROM AN ONLINE DATABASE
Last name, First name. "Title of Article." Title
of Magazine Day (if given) Month Year: Page Numbers.
Name of Service. (Student Res,
FirstSearch, etc.) Name of library that provides the service,
City, State. Date of Access. Example: Jones,
Malcolm. "Who Was More Important: Lincoln or Darwin." Newsweek. 14 July 2008: 30.
Student Resource Center.
RHS Library, Norridge - IL. 28 July 2008 <http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=IACDocuments&type=retrieve &tabID=T003&prodId=SRC3&docId=A180756980&source=gale&userGroupName=norr60634 &version=1.0>.
WEB SITE
Author (if available).
Title of Page. Date of posting/revision (if given).
Associated
institution or organization (if available.) Date of Access. <electronic address>.
Example:
Carson, Clayborne. Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stanford University. 26 Aug. 2004.
<http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/about_king/
>
AN ARTICLE ON A WEB SITE
Author (if available). “Article Title.” Name of web site. Date of posting/revision (if given).
Associated
institution or organization (if available.) Date of Access. <electronic address>.
Example:
“John Adams.” America’s
Story from America’s
Library. Library of Congress. 11 Oct. 2007.
< http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/presidents/adams>
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