Works Cited

(Bibliography)

 

Whole Books

 

One Author

 

Hinds, Kathryn.  The Ancient Romans.  New York:  Marshall Cavendish, 1997.

 


Two Authors

 

Adkins, Lesley, and Roy A. Adkins.  Handbook To Life In Ancient Rome.  New York: 

Facts On File, 1994.


 

Three Authors

 

Hodges, John C., Mary E. Whitten, and Winifred B. Horner.  Harbrace College

Handbook.  New York:  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990.
 


 

Four or More Authors

 

Donald, Robert B., et al.  Writing Clear Paragraphs.  Englewood Cliffs:  Prentice Hall,

1991.

 

The abbreviation et al. is Latin for the phrase “and others.”  You can use et al. instead of

listing all authors.


 

No Author Given

 

Pacific Northwest.  New York:  Mallard Press, 1991.


 

One Editor, No Author

 

Clare, John D., ed.  Classical Rome.  New York:  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993.


 

Two or Three Editors

 

Boardman, John, Jasper Griffin, and Oswyn Murray, eds.  The Oxford History of Greece

and the Hellenistic World.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1991.


 

Sets of Books

 

Chalton, Nicola, ed.  Literary Lifelines.  Volume 6.  Danbury, Connecticut:  Grolier

Educational, 1998.


 


 

Magazines, Newspapers, Journals,

Encyclopedias, & Reviews

 

An article from a quarterly or monthly magazine

 

Batten, Mary.  “Life Spans.”  Science Digest Feb. 2003: 46-51.

 

Article from a weekly magazine

 

Powell, Bill.  “Coping with the Markets.”  Newsweek 27 Apr. 2002: 54.


 

Magazine article with no author given

 

“How the New Tax Law Affects America.”  Nation’s Accountants 24 Sept. 1986:17-19.


 

Article from a daily newspaper

 

Goodman, Anthony.  “U. S., Allies Give Saddam Time to Disarm.”  Houston Chronicle

28 Feb. 2003, sec. 1:1.

 

If no author is given, begin with the title.


 

An editorial in a newspaper

 

America and the Stock Market.”  Editorial.  Houston Chronicle 4 Jan. 2003, sec. 1:6.

 

If no author is given, begin with the title.


 

Article in a journal

 

Brewbaker, James M.  “I Like Happy Endings, You Don’t.”  English Journal 78.6 (2003): 66.

 

The volume number, number of the issue, the date, and the page number follow the title

of the journal.

 


Unsigned, untitled review

 

Rev. of Left Behind.  American Film March 2002: 78.

 


A signed, titled review

 

Ludlow, Arthur.  “Glass Houses.”  Rev. of Rolling Breaks and Other Movie Business by

Aljean Harmetz.  Movies Aug. 2002: 76.

 

If a titled review is unsigned, begin the bibliographic entry with the title.


 

Encyclopedia Article

 

Slake, Josh.  “Westward Expansion.”  World Book Encyclopedia.  2002 ed.

 

 


CLC,   NCLC,   TCLC,   AAYA

 

 

One Editor

 

Hunter, Jeffrey W., ed.  Contemporary Literary Criticism.  Volume 131.  Detroit: Gale

Group, 2000.

 


 

Two Editors

 

Hunter, Jeffrey W., and Timothy J. White, eds.  Contemporary Literary Criticism. 

Volume 115.  Detroit:  Gale Group, 1999.

 

Any references to criticism from the CLC should mention the critic’s name in the body of

the paper.

 

 


 

 

 

Parts Within Books

 

 

A poem, short story, essay, or chapter from a collection of works by one author.

 

Cisneros, Sandra.  “The Marlboro Man.  Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. 

New York:  Random House, 1991.  57-60.


 

A poem, short story, essay or chapter from a collection of works by several authors.

 

Wharton, Edith.  “The Looking Glass.”  Ghost Stories.  Ed. Brad Leithauser.  New York: 

W. W. Norton & Company, 1994.  183-198.

 

(author, title of story, poem, … , title of book, editor, where published, publisher, year

published, pages.)

 


 

A novel or play from a collection of novels or plays under one cover.

 

Shaw, Irwin.  Bury the Dead.  Thirty Famous One-Act Plays.  Ed. Bennett Cerf and Van

H. Cartmell.  New York:  Random House, 1943.  567-599.

 

The Red Pony.  The Short Novels of John Steinbeck.  New York:  Viking, 1963.  355-

649.


 

OTHER SOURCES

 

An interview

 

Brady, Tom.  Personal interview.  13 January 2003.

 

Jordan, Michael.  Telephone interview.  13 May 2002.

 

Grisham, John. E-mail interview.  4 November 2002.

 

 

Pamphlet

 

Career as an Aerospace-Aircraft Engineer.  Chicago:  Institute for Research, 2001.

 

 

Government Publication

 

United States.  Dept. of Labor.  Bureau of Statistics.  Dictionary of Occupational Titles.

     4th ed.  Washington:  GPO, 2002.

 

 

College Catalog

 

Texas A & M Undergraduate Catalog. College Station:  Texas A & M University, 2002.

 

WCJC Catalog. Wharton: Wharton County Junior College, 2002.

 

 

Television Program

 

The First Americans.  Narr. Hugh Downs.  Writ. And prod. Craig Fisher.  NBC News

     Special. KNBC, Los Angeles. 21 March 1998.

 

 

Films

 

Special Effects.  Videocassette. Writ. and prod. Charles Halpern.  Dir. John Rudnick.

     Univ. of California Extension Media Center, 2000. 58 minutes.

 

 


 

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