Cite It Right!

When you use someone else's information from a book, a website, an interview, or another source, it is important to give credit to the original author in a bibliography (also knows as a works cited page, or a resource list).  A bibliography should show what sources you used for research, who wrote them, and when.

Use the examples and websites on this page to create your own bibliography.  Included in the examples are books, encyclopedias, interviews, and websites.  You can also use websites to help you create citations.

The databases available to the school have citations built in -- you simply need to save them to your Google Drive or copy and paste them into a document!

 Looking for more information than what is offered here?  Visit the Purdue Online Writing Lab.

Citation-Formatting Websites

Writing a paper?  Use the following websites to help you create correct citations:

Need to format your bibliography?  The citations should be in alphabetical order and properly formatted.  For more on how to format citations in a Google Doc, look to your right!

Formatting a Bibliography in Google Docs

Either do the following before starting your bibliography or highlight the entire text of your already-typed bibliography to get started.

Book Citation

Book with one author

Author’s last name, first name.  Title of book.  Publisher, year of publication. 

Murphy, Jim.  An American Plague. Clarion Books, 2003.

Book with more than one author

List the authors in the same order as they are listed in the book.

First author’s last name, first name, and second author’s First name Last
 name.  Title of book.  Place of publication: Publisher, year of
  publication. 

Smolin, Lori A., and Mary B. Grosvenor.  Nutrition and Eating
 Disorders. Chelsea House, 2005. 

Book with no author, but with an editor or editors

First editor’s last name, first name and second editor’s first name
 last name, editors.  Title of book.  Publisher, year of publication. 

Fortin, Caroline, editor.  Scholastic Visual Sports Encyclopedia.
      Scholastic Inc., 2003.

Website/page Citation

Entire Web Site

Author’s last name, first name.  Title of the web site.  Name of institution or affliliate,
  date created, URL or permalink. Date accessed. 

Linder, Douglas O. Famous Trials. University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, 2009,
      http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm. 16 October 2009. 

Individual Page on Web Site

Author's last name, first name. "Title of web page." Title of web site. Name of institution or affiliate,
      date created. URL or permalink. Date accessed.

“Polar Bear (Ursus Maritimus).”  U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Species Profile.
       U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, May 2008, http://ecos.fws.gov/speciesProfile/profile
      /speciesProfile.action?spcode=A0IJ. 17 November 2009.

Encyclopedia Article Citation

Encyclopedia Article in Print w/ Author


 Author’s last name, first name.  “Title of article.”  Title of encyclopedia.  edited by Editor's First Name Last Name, Edition, vol. Volume Number, Publisher Name, Year of Publication, pp. First Page - Last Page.

 Hill, Douglas. "Vampire." Man, Myth & Magic.  Revised ed, vol. 19, 1994, pp. 2702-2708.


Encyclopedia Article in Print w/out Author


"Title of article." Title of encyclopedia. edited by Editor's First Name Last Name,
        Edition, vol. Volume Number, Publisher Name, Year of Publication, pp. First Page - Last Page.