HOW TO WRITE A BIBLIOGRAPHY

A bibliography is an alphabetical list of all the sources you used when researching an essay.
You can see an example of a bibliography on the back page of this handout.

Below is a general guide to formatting a bibliography.

Book with one author:

Author (last name, first name). Title of the book. City: Publisher, Date of publication.

Example:

Buffa, Liz. Research Paper Smart. New York: Random House,

1997.

Magazine/Newspaper Article:

Author's last name, first name. "Article title." Magazine title Date of publication: page
numbers. (And if a newspaper: add the section letter before the page number)

Magazine:

Jerome, Richard, and Margaret Nelson. "Deadly Game?" People 23

Sept. 2002: 221.

Newspaper:

Garcia, Michael. "Students I hate." Los Angeles Times 21 Oct.

2009: B15.

Short story or chapter of a book:

Author's last name, first name. "Title of Short Story of Chapter." Title of the book that
the source comes from. Editor (ed.) of the book's full name. Place of publication:
Publisher, date of publication. Pages of the source.

Example:

Buell, Lawrence. "Moby-Dick as Sacred Text." New Essays on

Moby Dick. Ed. Richard Broadhead. Cambridge: University of

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 Cambridge Press, 1986. 53-72.

Internet Article:

Author's last name, first name. "Article title." Name of Website. Date of publication.
Date when website was accessed. The URL (internet address) of the Website.

Examples:

Bernstein, Mark. "Tiger tunes up for PGA with dominating win." MSNBC. 5 Aug.
2007. 6 August 2007.
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20134263/>.

"Global warming." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 4 August 2007. 6 August 2006
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming >.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bizet’s Dream. Videotape. New York: Sony Wonder, 1998.

Clark, William W. "Gothic Art." World Book Encyclopedia. 2002. Volume 8, pp. 284-286.

Fogle, Bruce. Training Your Dog. New York: DK Publishing, 2001, pp. 50-55.

"Golden Retriever." World Book Encyclopedia. 1999. Volume 8, p.255.

McGill, Kristy. "A Baltic Scramble." Faces May, 2003, p. 27.

"Titanic Disaster." Encarta 99 Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. 1999.

Elements of a Book

1. Index: a listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on
which they are mentioned.
2. Preface: a preliminary statement in a book by the book's author or editor.
3. Appendix: supplementary material at the end of a book, article, document, or other text,
usually of an explanatory, statistical, or bibliographic nature.