• Book with two authors:
Format:
Author last name, first name and first name last name. Title. place of publication: publisher, date.
Example:
Ricklefs, Robert E. and Caleb E. Finch. Aging: A Natural History. New York: W.H. Freeman, 1995.

    • Book with three or more authors:
Format:
Author last name, first name, et al. Title. place of publication: publisher, date.
Example:
Quirk, Randolph, et al. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman, 1985.

    • Book with an editor:
Format:
Editor last name, first name, ed. Title. place of publication: publisher, date.
Example:
Lougher, John, ed. First Sightings: Contemporary Stories of American Youth. New York: Persea Books, 1993.

    • Encyclopedia Article with an author:
Format:
Author last name, first name. “Article Title." Encyclopedia Title. edition. date.
Example:
Foulkes, A. P. "Klein Bottle." Encyclopedia Americana. 15th ed. 1992.

    • Encyclopedia Article with no author:
Format:
"Article Title." Encyclopedia Title. edition. date.
Example:
"Red Cross." World Book Encyclopedia. 10th ed. 1990.

    • Scholarly Excerpt from a book or article in a collection:
Format:
To cite a previously published scholarly article in a collection, give the complete data for the earlier publication and then add Rpt. in (“Reprinted in”), the title of the collection and the new publication facts.
Example:
Roberts, Sheila. “A Confined World: A Rereading of Pauline Smith.” World Literature Written in English 24 (1984): 232-38. Rpt. in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Dennis Poupard. Vol. 25. Detroit: Gale, 1988. 399-402.

Periodical Articles

    • Scholarly Journal with continuous paging:
Format:
Author's last name, first name. "Article title." Journal Title Volume No. (Year): pages.
Example: Most, Andrea. " 'We Know We Belong to the Land' : The Theatricality of Assimilation in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!" PMLA 113 (1998): 77-89.

    • Scholarly Journal that pages each issue separately:
Format:
Author's last name, first name. "Article title." Journal Title Volume Number.Issue number (Year): pages.
Example:
Barthelme, Frederick. "Architecture." Kansas Quarterly 13.3 (1981): 77-80.

    • Magazine Article:
Format:
Author last name, first name. "Article Title." Magazine Title Date: pages.
Example:
Haseltine, William A. "Discovering Genes for New Medicines." Scientific American Mar. 1997: 92-97.

    • Newspaper Article:
Format:
Author last name, first name. "Article Title." Newspaper Date, edition [if any]: SECTIONpages.
Example:
Lohr, Steve. “Now Playing: Babes in Cyberspace.” New York Times 3 Apr. 1998, late ed.: C1+.


Electronic Resources
    When citing from electronic resources use the same format as above (i.e., magazine, newspaper, etc.) and add the resource name, the date you accessed it and the network address (URL).
Format:
Add: resource name (dd Mmm. yyyy) <http://www.website.com>.

    • Online Scholarly Journal article:
Denning, Peter J. "Business Designs for the New University." Educom Review 31.6 (1996). 23 June 1998 <http://educom.edu/web/pubs/review/reviewArticles/31620.html>.

    • Online Newspaper article from its web site:
Markoff, John. "The Voice on the Phone Is Not Human, but It's Helpful." New York Times on the Web 21 June 1998. 25 June 1998 <http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/06/biztech/articles/21voice.html>.

    • Online Newspaper article from a database:
Lohr, Steve. “Now Playing: Babes in Cyberspace.” New York Times 3 Apr. 1998, late ed.: C1+. Dialog@CARL 9 Nov. 1999 <http://dialog.carl.org:3007>.

    • Online Magazine article from a database:
Haseltine, William A. "Discovering Genes for New Medicines." Scientific American Mar. 1997: 92-97. InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP 7 Jul. 1998 <http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb.mlin_n_stjohns>.

    • Online Magazine article from its web site:
Haseltine, William A. "Discovering Genes for New Medicines." Scientific American Mar. 1997: 92-97. 9 Jul. 1998 <http://sciam.com>.

    • Personal or Private web site:
When citing from an online professional or personal site, begin the entry with the name of the person who created it (if given and relevant), reversed for alphabetizing and followed by a period. Continue with the title of the site (underlined) or, if there is no title, with a description such as home page (neither underlined nor in quotation marks); the name of any institution or organization associated with the site; the date of access; and the network address (URL) in brackets.

Jarrell, Gordon H. Checklist to the Mammals of Alaska. 1998. University of Alaska. 28 May 1998 <http://www.uaf.edu/museum/mammal/AK_Mammals/Checklist.html>.


Scriptural Citations
    Note that parenthetical citations of Biblical sources should include the book number in roman type followed by abbreviated chapter name and verse number, with a colon or period between chapter and verse. You may also abbreviate the version of the Bible you are citing.

A Parenthetical Citation from the Old Testament
Deut. 5: 19. NRSV
A Parenthetical Citation from the New Testament
2 Cor.9.6 NRSV
A Parenthetical Citation from the Apocrypha

Tob. 14:5 NRSV
Scripture in Your Works Cited List

The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Edition. Ed. Metzger, Bruce M. and Roland E. Murphy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Steinsaltz, Adin. The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition, 9 vols. New York: Random House 1993.

Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad, ed. The Holy Quran with English Translation and Commentary, 5 vols. Tilford, Surrey: Islam International Publications, (1988).