Hoover Library

Works Cited Format

 

 Print Resources

 

Book:
Author’s last name, first name. Title of Book. Place of publication: Publisher, Year Published.

 

 

Fairbanks, Carol. Prairie Women: Images in American and Canadian Fiction. New Haven: Yale UP, 1986.

 

Book with two or three Authors:

Rosenfeld, Louis, Joseph Janes, and Martha Vander Hold. The Internet Compendium: Subject Guides to Humanities Resouces. New York: Neal, 1995.

 

Encyclopedia or Dictionary:

Jones, Alfred P. “Sonata.” Encyclopedia Britannica. 15^{th ed. 1997.}

 

Weekly Magazine:

Pierpont, Claudia Roth. “A Society of One: Zora Neale Hurston, American Contrarian.” New Yorker 17 Feb. 1997: 8086.

Note- if pages are not consecutive, use the staring page number and a plus sign (ex: 60+)

 

Article in Daily Newspaper:

Knox, Rishard A. “Please Don’t Dial and Drive, Study Suggests.” Boston Globe 14 Feb. 1997: A1+.

 

Work in an Anthology:

Kavanaugh, John. “The Death Penalty Violates the Sanctity of Life.” The Death Penalty: Opposing Viewpoints. Ed. Mary E. Williams. San Diego:

Greenhaven Press, 2002, 83-87.

 

Electronic Database Resources through the Internet

 

Basic Format:

Author. “Article title.” Original Source of Article Date of Original Source: page numbers. Name of the Database Used. Name of the Service. Library

where database was accessed, Location of library. Date of Access <URL of database homepage>.

Discovering Collections:

“Edgar Allan Poe.” Discovering Collection Online 2004. Chico High School Library, Chico, CA 14 Feb. 2004
<http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/start.do?prodId=DC&userGroupName=chicohs_main>.

 

Bailey, J. O. “What Happens in ‘The Fall of the House of Usher.’” Discovering Collection Online 2004. Chico High School Library,
Chico, CA 12 Feb. 2004 <http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/start.do?prodId=DC&userGroupName=chicohs_main>.

Opposing Viewpoints:

Gelbspan, Ross. “Global Warming Is a Serious Environmental Threat.” Opposing Viewpoints: The Environment 2001. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Thomson Gale. Chico High School, Chico, CA. 29 Oct. 2007 <http://find.galegroup.com/ovrc/start.do?prodId=OVRC&userGroupName=chicohs_main>.

 

Grolier’s Encyclopedias:

Pasquier, Roger F. “Owl.” Encyclopedia Americana. Grolier Online, 2004. 15 March 2004 <http://ea.grolier.com>.

 

 

Internet Website

 

Entire Website:

Author last name, first name. Name of Webpage. date of posting or revision. name of affiliated organization. date of access. <url>.

 

Tropea, Greg. Greg Tropea’s Home Page. 26 Sept. 2004. California State University, Chico. 4 Nov. 2004.

<http://www.csuchico.edu/phil/gtropea_home.html>.

 

Article of Website:

Poland, Dave. “The Hot Button.” Roughcut. 26 Oct. 1998. Turner Network Television. 28 Oct. 1998 <http://www.roughcut.com>.

 

 

 

Other Resources

Interview you conducted:
Interviewee’s last name, first name. Personal Interview. date of interview.Art Print:

Artist’s name, Title of the painting or sculpture. Name of the institution housing the work, city of the institution.