Citation Guide

What You Are Citing

In-Text Citation

The entire work

 OR

 The entire work with no page numbers

 To cite an entire work within the text of the paper include information that will allow the reader to locate the source in your works cited list.

 Example:

 In his book "Sedaris," author Kevin Kopelson discusses the importance humility and humor have had in David  Sedaris’s writing.

 OR

 A recent newspaper article demonstrated just how active local community has been in the support of public health options (Smith). 

 A specific page 

 (Cruz 8)  

 If the author is included in the text of the sentence 

 Marks made his point clearly (150-62). 

 Multi-volume set 

 (George 2: 109-111)

 “2” is the volume number  

 Author and page number

 Reference List:

 Wiegand, Wayne. 

 (Wiegand 70) 

 Two or three authors

 Reference List:

 Marty, Paul, and Charles McClure. 

 Johns, Mike, Lisa Tripp, and Amy C. Jones. 

 (Marty and McClure 12)

 (Johns, Tripp, and Jones 345) 

 Four or more authors

 Reference List:

 Font, Patrick, Antonio Suarez, Jacob Mielgo, and Juan de  Caz.

 OR

 Font, Patrick, et al. 

 (Font, Suazrez, Mielgo, and Caz 153-54)

 OR

 (Font et al. 153-54) 

 Group author

 Reference List:

 Modern Language Association 

 (Modern Language Association 16) 

 No Author Listed

 Reference List:

 "Riding the Wave: New Google Toy." New York  Times 12  Dec. 2009: Technology 2-3. NewsBank.  Web. 10 June  2006. 

 (“Riding the Wave” 2)

 ** In cases where the title contains a colon, use only the text before the colon in the in-text citation.

 Citing a Source within a Source

 Reference List:

 Bears, M.D. "Information Literacy in Academic  Libraries." Chronicle for Higher  Education 31(2008):  20-28.  Web. 2009. 

 Larsen writes, "Today's librarian is part teacher, part entrepreneur" (qtd. in Bears 22).  

Type of Source 

Reference List Citation

 Book

 Format:

 Last name, First name. Title of Book. Place of Publication:  Publisher, Year of Publication.

 Example:

 Rifkin, Jeremy. The Age of Access: The New Culture of  Hypercapiltalism Where all of Life is a Paid-For Experience.  New York: Putnam, 2000. 

 Edition of a book

 Format:

 Last name, First name. Title of the Book. Number of edition ed. Publisher, Year of Publication.  

 Example:

 Crowley, Sharon, and Debra Hawhee. Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. 3rd ed. Pearson/Longman, 2004. 

Chapter or article in an anthology/edited book

 Format:

 Last name, First name. "Title of Essay." Title of Collection.  Ed. Editor's Name(s). Place of Publication: Publisher, Year.  Page range of entry. Medium of Publication.

 Example:

 Marshall, Walt. “On the Way to the Coliseum.” The Falling of Rome. Ed. Thomas Bond. Bloomsbury, 1999.  126-139. 

 Multi-volume set

 Format:

 Last name, First name. Title of Work. Number of volumes. Publisher, Year. 

 Example:

 Gray, Cristina. Jefferson. 3 vols. Wake  Forest University Press, 2000. 

 E-Book 

Database Format:

 Last name, First Name. Title of Work. Publisher, Year.  Name of  Database. Date Accessed (Day Month Year). 

Database Example:

 Kornblum, William. At Sea in the City: New York from the  Water’s Edge. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2002. Net  Library. 3 Dec. 2009

 Online Format:

 Last name, First Name. Title of Work. Publisher, Year. Name of Website. Date Accessed (Day Month  Year). 

 Online Example:

 Seton, Ernest Thompson. The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe-  Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou. C. Scribner’s Sons, 1911. Project Gutenberg. 25  Nov. 2008.