BIBLIOGRAPHY
A bibliography is a special way of listing all the sources you have used while researching a topic. You can look at the examples below and use them as guidelines on how to reference and cite information you have found in encyclopedias, books, magazines, videos, and websites. Watch out for the punctuation!!.
ENCYCLOPEDIA
For an unsigned encyclopedia article, follow this format:"Article", Encyclopedia Name. Volume number, last copyright date, pages.
Example:
"Columbus, Christopher". World Book Encyclopedia. Vol. 4, 2004, pp. 857-864."Magellan", The McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography . Vol. 7, 1973, pp. 88 - 90.
BOOK
For a book with one author follow this format:Author. Title. City of publication: publisher, copyright date, pages.
Example:
Crisfield, Debbie. The Travels of Hernan Cortes. New York: Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers, 2000, pp. 19-21. For a book with two or more authors follow this format:Author (Last name, first name, ) and second author (first and last name)
If more than two, separate by using a semicolon. Title, City of publication: publisher , copyright date, pages.
Example:
Sawyer, L.A. and W. H, Mitchell . The Liberty Ships. London: Lloyds of London Press, Ltd., 1985.
MAGAZINE
Follow the format: Author (last name, first name). "Article." Magazine. Date, pages
Example:
Tomey, Ingrid. "Stepping out on snowshoes." National Geographic, December 1996, pp. 23-89
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