QHS Library
Guide to WORKS CITED
Melanie Kemp, Librarian, updated 1/2008
BOOKS WITH AUTHORS
Book with one author or editor (use book editor)
Abrams, Liesa. Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome.
Sheen, Barbara. Asthma.
Stewart, Gail B. Phobias.
Book with two authors or editors
For two authors or
editors, list the first person as
last name, first name, and second person first name last name.
For three authors or
editors do the same. For more than three
list the first person last name, first name, et. al.
(example: Kemp, Melanie, et. al.)
Books with no known author
Begin with the title
of the book
BOOKS WITH EDITORS
Book with editor, chapter has an organization/corporate author
Ed.
Barbara A. Moe. Eating Disorders.
Group, Inc., 1999. 15-21.
Cancer.” Ed. Belinda Mooney. Cancer.
19-23.
Book with editor, chapter has one author
Last
name, first name of chapter author. “Title of Chapter.” Ed. First
name Last name of editor.
Book
Title. Place of Publication: Publisher, date of
publication. Pages.
O’Kane, James M. “The Narcotics Trade Incites Gang Violence.” Ed. Charles P. Cozic.
Gangs.
Tucker, C. DeLores. “Gangsta Rap May Encourage Gang Behavior.” Ed. Charles P.
Cozic. Gangs.
Woznicki, Katrina. “Secondhand Smoke Causes Cancer.” Ed. Belinda Mooney. Cancer.
Book with one editor, chapter has two authors
For two authorss, list the first person as
last name, first name, and second person first name last name.
For three authors do
the same. For more than three list the
first person last name, first name, et. al. (example:
Kemp, Melanie, et. al.) List the chapter title in quotations with period inside
quotations. Then Ed. First
name Last name of editor. Book Title.
City of publication: publisher, date of publication. Pages.
Anderson, Craig A., and Brad J. Bushman. “Media Violence Contributes to a More
Violent Society.” Ed. David M.Haugen. Is Media Violence a Problem? San
Diego: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 2007. 11-14.
Book with two authors or editors, chapter has one author
When there is a book
editor with authors of individual chapters or essays, list the author of the
article last name,
first name. “Title of Chapter or Essay.”
Ed. First name last name of editor, first name last name of
second editor. Book
Title. City of
Lorenz, Valerie. “Compulsive Gambling Is a Serious Disease.” Eds. Charles P. Cozic
and Paula
A. Winters. Gambling.
Popkin, James. “Casino Tricks Encourage Heavy Gambling.” Eds. Charles P. Cozic and
Paula A. Winters. Gambling.
PERIODICALS from MELO or MAGNOLIA
Web site URL goes
inside < > and when you type a Web site address and hit the space bar the
< >s are going to disappear and your address turns blue. Just hit your backspace key once or twice and
you get your < > back and the blue turns back to black!
Article with one author
when using MAGNOLIA
Silver-Greenburg, Jessica. “Shoplifters Get Smarter.” Business Week. 4059 (19 Nov.
2007) :
42-42. Academic Search Premier. MAGNOLIA.
<http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/>
when using MELO
Yabroff, Jennie. “A Special Delivery.” Newsweek 150.24 (10 December 2007) : 98-.
Opposing
Viewpoints. MELO.
Article with two authors
Last name, first name
of first author, and first name last name of second author. The rest followed
the above example.
Article with no authors
Begin with the title
of the article
Article from a subscription
database through magnolia such as
**when you type the web address inside the < > and
hit the spacebar or hit the enter key, the < >’s will disappear and the
link will turn blue, JUST HIT THE BACKSPACE BUTTON ONCE and you get the <
>’s back and the writing turns to black again
“Babbage, Charles.” Encyclopedia
bibliographic information for articles in Wilson Web
usually appear near the top of the article and underneath the title of the
article
“Babbage, Charles.” Leaders of the Information Age. 2003. Wilson Web. MAGNOLIA. QHS Library, Quitman, MS. 24 Jan. 2008 <http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/>
WEB SITE
If given an author, begin with author’s last name, first name. Then follow these examples. You see here the title of the article followed by the organization responsible for the site, the date you accessed the site and the Web site URL in < >. Generally, Name of Site. Date of Posting/Revision. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (check the very bottom of the page). Date you accessed the site <website address goes inside carrots>.
Page within a website; no date on the webpage, title of the PAGE was
“Impaired Driving” and the WEBSITE was Center for Disease Control and
Prevention
“Impaired Driving.” Center for Disease
Control and Prevention.
<http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/drving.htm>
Page within a website: date on the webpage was
“History of Drunk Driving.” Drunk
Driving Laws.Org. 5 May 1999.
<http://www.drunkdrivinglaws.org/historyofdrunkdriving.html>
author listed on site
use the examples above and BEGIN with the author’s last name, first name. (period after first name) Then the rest is the same as the above examples.
Graphics & images
Begin with the name of the website that the image came from,
not "Google Images". (If an artist is listed, begin with the artist’s
Last name, first name.) My image came from the site listed below. The website
was not a university website, but a department with the university. You may
have just a website name because you have just a website!
Name of Website. Name of search engine or
site that linked your image. Date you accessed the site using the format
below <paste the entire URL in between carrots>.
date created
8_2007; last updated 1_31_08
