ONE AUTHOR

Parenthetical: (Zinn 203)

Works Cited Entry:

Zinn, Howard.  People’s History of the United States.  New York:  Harper Perennial, 1995.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TWO OR THREE AUTHORS

Parenthetical: (Bailey, Kennedy, and Cohen 930)

Works Cited Entry:

Bailey, Thomas A., David M.  Kennedy and Lizabeth Cohen.  The American Pageant.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FOUR OR MORE AUTHORS

Parenthetical: (O’Brien et al.  175)

Works Cited Entry:

O’Brien, Robert, et al.  Encyclopedia of Drug Abuse.  2nd ed.  New York:  Facts on File, 1992.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NO AUTHOR

Parenthetical: (Chronicle 326)

Works Cited Entry:

Chronicle of the 20th Century.  New York:  Dorling Kindersley, 1995.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDITOR OR COMPILER

Parenthetical: (Monk 71)

Works Cited Entry:

Monk, Linda R., ed.  Ordinary Americans.  Virginia:  Close Up Publishing, 1994.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CORPORATE AUTHOR

Parenthetical: (Close Up 69)

Works Cited Entry:

Close Up Foundation.  Current Issues.  Virginia:  Close Up Publishing, 1994.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TRANSLATOR

Parenthetical: (Rostand 53)

Works Cited Entry:

Rostand, Edmond.  Cyrano de Bergerac.  Trans.  Brian Hooker.  New York :  Bantam, 1981.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MULTIVOLUME WORK WITH EDITOR

Parenthetical: (McPherson 33)

Works Cited Entry:

McPherson, James M., ed.  Battle Chronicles of the Civil War. Vol. 2.  New York:  Macmillan, 1989.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MULTIVOLUME WORK OR SERIES, AUTHOR AND EDITOR

Parenthetical: (Faulkner 2975)

Works Cited Entry:

Faulkner, Howard.  “Richard Wright.” Critical Survey of Long Fiction.  Ed.  Frank M.  Magill.  Vol.7.  Englewood Cliffs:  Salem, 1982.  2974-2984.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXCERPTS COMPILED IN A SINGLE WORK

Parenthetical: (Lerman 74)

Works Cited Entry:

Lerman, Leo.  “Some People and Places.”  The New York Times Book Review  31 Dec.  1950:5+.  Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism.  Ed.  Jean C.  Stine.  Detroit :  Gale Research, 1983.  74.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANTHOLOGY (textbook)

Parenthetical: (Wyatt)

Works Cited Entry:

Wyatt, Sir Thomas.  “Whoso List to Hunt.”  Elements of Literature.  Ed.  Kathleen Daniel et al.  Sixth Course.  Austin:  Holt, Reinhart, and Winston, 2000.  214.

[Note: Since the work cited is a single page in the anthology, there is no need to include the page # in the parenthetical citation.]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOLY WORKS

Parenthetical: (Gen.  1.1-2-2.22)[book, chapter & verse #s]

Works Cited Entry:

The New English Bible.  London:  Oxford UP and Cambridge UP, 1970.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AN INTRODUCTION, A PREFACE, A FOREWORD, OR AN AFTERWARD

Parenthetical: (Callan xvii)

Works Cited Entry:

Callan, Edward.  Introduction.  Cry, the Beloved Country.  By Alan Paton.  New York:  MacMillan, 1987.  xv-xxvii.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PAMPHLET WITH NO AUTHOR OR PUBLICATION INFO. STATED

Parenthetical: (Pedestrian Safety)

Works Cited Entry:

Pedestrian Safety.  [United States]:  n.p., n.d.

[Note: List country of origin in brackets]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SIGNED PAMPHLET

Parenthetical: (Dye)

Works Cited Entry:

Dye, Christina.  Cocaine:  Waking Up to a Nightmare.  Phoenix, AZ:  Do It Now Foundation, 1989.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ALMANAC

Parenthetical: (“The World’s Refugees” 831)

Works Cited Entry:

“The World’s Refugees.”  The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998. 

 [Note: No publishing information is needed for a very well-known work.]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SIGNED GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE

Parenthetical: (Sippl 188)

Works Cited Entry:

Sippl, Charles J.  “Computers.”  The New Encyclopedia Britannica.  1997 ed.

[Note: Page number is not necessary from an alphabetized work.]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UNSIGNED GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE

Parenthetical: (“Laser”)

Works Cited Entry:

“Laser.”  Encyclopedia Americana.  1997 ed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SPECIALIZED ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE

Parenthetical: (Dreyer 202)

Works Cited Entry:

Dreyer, Edward L.  “Inner Mongolia.”  Encyclopedia of Asian History.  Ed.  Ainslee T. Embree.  4 Vols.  New York:  Scribners, 1988.