Works Cited page, student sample
Works Cited
Adams, Samuel. “Mini-barge fleet piles area rivers.” The Sunday [Ashland KY]
Independent. 30 Jan. 1994: 1A.
Boyne, Walter J. Beyond the Horizons: The Lockheed Story. NY: Thomas Dune, 1998.
Congressional Quarterly Index 1991 to199. Washington: GPO, 1996.
Ferguson, Rosalind. The Penguin Rhyming Dictionary. London: Penguin, 1985.
James, Mike. “Bryan pleaded guilty to reckless
homicide.” The [Ashland, KY] Daily
Independent, 31 May 2000. 1A.
King, Peter. “Facing the Music.” Sports Illustrated. Dec. 1998: 82, 84, 86.
Munson, Kenneth. Aircraft of World War Two. London: I. Allan, 1962.
Natkiel, Richard. Atlas of American Wars. Greenwich, CT: Bison, 1986.
Rice, Otis K.
West Virginia: A History. Lexington, KY:, UP of Kentucky, 1985.
Stearns, Leroy D. The
3rd Marine Aircraft Wing in Desert Shield and Desert Storm
. Washington D.C.: U.S. Marine Corps, 1999.
“West Virginia.” Van Nostrand’s Scientific Encyclopedia Sixth Edition. 1983 ed.
Please note: Punctuation is very important. Book, magazine, and newspaper titles are underlined or in italics. There are periods used after the author’s name, after the titles (and inside the quotation marks), and at the end of the entry.
The author’s last name comes first. If there are more than one author (but less than three), the second and third authors’ names do not come in reverse order. If there are more than three authors, use the et al abbreviation (meaning: and others).
If the title of the newspaper is ambiguous, you must supply the needed information to make it clear. For instance, for The Daily Independent it is not enough to supply in brackets that it is the Ashland paper; since there are several Ashlands in the U.S., you must indicate that it is the Ashland, Kentucky newspaper.
Notice that the works cited is order by the authors’ last names. If there is no author indicated for your citation, you use the next entry, the title of the article or book.
And, finally, notice that you must indent all but the first lines of the entries.