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Please take all publication information from the Title Page of the book.  DO NOT use the front cover.
Titles can either be underlined or italicized.  Whichever you choose, stay consistent within your bibliography.

Research Databases | Literary/Gale | Website | Print | Other

 

WORKS CITED:

INTERNAL
DOCUMENTATION:

Research Databases: (top)

 

EBSCO MAS Ultra:
Soukup, Elise. "West Virginia Princess." Newsweek 25 Sept.2005.  MAS

Ultra School Edition. EBSCO. Fremd HS Lib,, Palatine, IL. 25 Oct. 2006 <http://search.ebscohost.com>.

author
(Soukup)

JSTOR:
Bauman, Allen. Rev. of Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time, by Mary
     Waldron. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 19 (2000): 342-5.   
     JSTOR. Fremd HS Lib., Palatine, IL. 24 Apr. 2006
     <http://www.jstor.org>.

Golden, Richard M. "American Perspectives on the European Witch Hunts."
     History Teacher 30 (1997): 409-26. JSTOR. Fremd HS Lib., Palatine,
     IL. 15 Apr. 2008 <http://www.jstor.org>.
 

author
(Bauman)

 


author
(Golden)

eLibrary Science:
Frick, Robert. "Preventing Heart Disease." Life Science Weekly Feb.

2005. eLibrary Science. ProQuest Information and Learning. Fremd HS Lib,, Palatine, IL. 20 May 2006 <http://www.proquestk12.com>.

author
(Frick)

Newsbank:
Peres, Judy. "Couple's Divorce Entangles Frozen Embryos." Chicago

Tribune 7 Aug. 1999, Chicagoland final ed., News sec.: 1. NewsBank NewsFile Collection. Fremd HS Lib,, Palatine, IL. 16 Aug. 1999 <http://infoweb.newsbank.com>.

author
(Peres)

CQ Researcher:
Cox, Rachel S. "Ecotourism." CQ Researcher 10 Oct. 2006: 865-888.

CQ Researcher Online. CQ Press. Fremd HS Lib,, Palatine, IL. 25 Oct. 2006 <http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher>.

author
(Cox)

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center:
Sheridan, Danny. "Gambling on College Sports Should Not Be Banned

Nationwide." Opposing Viewpoints: Sports and Athletes. Ed. James D. Torr. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2005. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. Fremd HS Lib., Palatine, IL. 10 April 2007 <http://find.galegoup.com>.

author
(Sheridan)

Career Cruising:
"Actor." Career Cruising. Fremd HS Lib.,  Palatine, IL. 23 Oct. 2007

<http://www.careercruising.com>.

Shortened title
("Actor," Cruising)

Career Information System:
"Actor." Career Information System.  Fremd HS Lib., Palatine, IL. 23 Oct.

     2007  <http://ilcis.intocareers.org.com>.
    

Shortened title
("Actor," CIS)
   
   

Gale and other Literary Sources: (top)

 

(When the original source is a MAGAZINE article)
Wilson, Edmund. "Return of Ernest Hemingway." New Republic

 103 (28 Oct.1940): 591-592. Rpt. in "Hemingway, Ernest." Contemporary Literary Criticism.  Ed. James P. Draper. Vol. 80. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1994. 101-103.

author, page #
(Fuller 150)

(When the original source is from a BOOK)
Lindberg, Gary. "Playing for Real." The Confidence Man in American
     Literature
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. 231-58. Rpt. in
     "Heller, Joseph." Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz.
      Vol. 63. Detroit: Gale, 1991. 203-205.
 

author, page #
(Lindberg 203)

Gale "for Students" Series
(When you are using pages written specifically for the book and not a reprinted article of criticism. If you are using a criticism article, use the Gale examples above.)

"Dracula." Novels for Students. Ed. David Galens. Vol. 18. Detroit: Gale,
     2003. 22-50.
 

shortened title,   page #
("Dracula" 22)

Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction:
Rout, Kathleen. "Gone With The Wind." Beacham's Encyclopedia of
     Popular Fiction
. Osprey, FL: Beacham Publishing Corp., 1996. 1734-
     1740.
 

author, page #
(Rout 1734)

   

Website: (top)

 

Basic citation format for a page from a website:

Author's name (if available). "Page Title." Name of Site. Date of copyright or
     posting or revision. Institution/organization sponsoring the site. Date
     accessed <complete electronic address of page>.
 

(Author's name or shortened title)

Skidmore, Joel. "Ares." Mythweb. 23 May 2001. Mythweb, Fleet Gazelle.
     3 Oct. 2002 <http://www.mythweb.com/gods/Ares.html>.
 

author
(Skidmore)

*You may need to search through the website to find the author. Sometimes there isn't an author named.
*The name of the website is usually at the top of the page in bold letters.
*Dates can often be found at the bottom of the page. Some pages do not have this information.
*Institutions/Organizations: can be a company, school, organization or government institution, or there may not be one at all.
*Date accessed is the date you found the website on the internet. Example 3 Oct. 2002.
 

 

Online newspaper or magazine article:
Tumulty, Karen. "Fighting Across the Aisle." Time.com 30 Sept. 2002. 2 Oct.
     2002 <http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/08599.html>.
 

author
(Tumulty)

   

Print Sources: (top)

 

Book - single author
Romano, Tony. When the World Was Young. New York: Harper Collins,
     2007.
 

author, page #
(Romano 26)

Book - two or more authors (give their names in the same order as on the title page)
Wellek, Gene, and William Walden. Theory of Literature. Chicago:
     Doubleday, 1983.
 

authors, page #
(Wellek and Walden 34)

Book - more than three authors (et. al. = and others)
Carlson, Sander, et al. The English Language. Berkeley: University of
     California Press, 1993.
 

author, page
(Carlson 233)

Book - editor instead of author
Thompson, Clifford, ed. Current Biography Yearbook 1999. New York:
     H.W. Wilson, 1999.
 

editor, page
(Thompson 582)

Book - series
Balkin, Karen, ed. Health Care: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego, CA:
     Greenhaven Press, 2003.
 

editor, page
(Balkin 197)

Book - more than three authors (et. al. = and others)
Carlson, Sander, et al. The English Language. Berkeley: University of
     California Press, 1993.
 

author, page
(Carlson 233)

Multi-volume encyclopedias or sets
(Signed article)
Mayland, Charles J. "Franklin, Benjamin." Dictionary of American
      Biography
. Vol. 4. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995.
     237-277.
 

author, page #
(Mayland 237)

(Unsigned article)
Travers, Bridget, ed. "Calcium." Gale Encyclopedia of Science. Vol. 1.   
     New York: Gale Research, 1996. 163-169.
 

editor, page #
(Travers 163)

Book with chapters written by different authors
(many literature criticisms fall under this category)

Chapter written specifically for the book:
White, Ann Vorisek. "Television Harms Children." Television:
     Opposing
Viewpoints. Ed. Jamuna Carroll. Detroit: Thomson Gale,
     2006.  71-76.

Chapter reprinted from another source:
Broadhead, Richard H. "New and Old Tales: The Scarlet Letter."    
     Hawthorne, Melville, and the Novel
. Chicago: University of Chicago   
     Press, 1976. Rpt. in Modern Critical Views: Nathaniel Hawthorne.
     Ed. Harold Bloom. NewYork: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. 153-  
     155.
 

 

 

author, page #
(White 72)

 

(Broadhead 153)

Magazine and newspaper articles
Bose, Ted. "Wilde's Game of Being Earnest." Modern Drama
     March 1988: 81-86.

"Four Attacks Kill at Least 11 in Kashmir." Chicago Tribune 23 Oct. 2002: 
     sec. 1: 8.
 

author, page #
(Bose 82)

shortened title, page #
("Four" 8)

Pamphlet (cite a pamphlet as you would a book)
Smith, Patricia. Oscar Wilde. New York: Literary Press, 1981.
 

author only
(Smith)

Occupational Guidance
"Newspaper Editor." Occupational Guidance. Vol. VI, Unit 1, Minneapolis:
     Finney Co., 2004.
 

shortened title only
("Newspaper")

   

Other: (top)

 

Film on DVD or Videotape
It's a Wonderful Life. Dir. Frank Capra. Perf. James Stewart and
     Donna Reed. 1946. DVD. Republic, 1998.
 

shortened title
(Wonderful Life)

Television or Radio Program
"The Blessing Way." The X-Files. Fox. WFOX, Chicago, 19 Sept. 2002.
 

shortened title
("Blessing")

Audio
U2. All That You Can't Leave Behind. Interscope, 2000.
 

performer
(U2)

Interview
Pei, I.M. Personal interview. 22 July 1993.

Larson, Al. Telephone interview. 10 Dec. 2000.

subject
(Pei)

subject
(Larson)