Iolani School - Works Cited Style Guide

Center the heading Works Cited at the top of the page.
Begin entry at the left margin.
Indent one-half inch each additional lines of entry.
Double-space the entire list, both between and within the entries.
Alphabetize the list by the first work of the entry (usually the author's last name ; disregard a, an, and the).
Refer to The Keables Guide to English for additional information.

Book
Articles
World Wide Web Sites
Online Image
Online Services

Books

Single author
Ferllini, Roxana. Silent Witness: How Forensic Anthropology is Used to Solve the

World's Toughest Crimes. Buffalo: Firefly, 2002.

An edited book
Inada, Lawson Fusao, ed. Only What We Could Carry: the Japanese American

Internment Experience. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2000.

Co-authored book
Schell, Bernadette H., and Clemens Matin. Cybercrime. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2004.

An edition of a book
Jordan, Frank, ed. The English Romantic Poets: A Review of Research and Criticism. 4th

ed. New York: MLA, 1985.

A work in an anthology or collection
O'Connor, Flannery. "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction." Mystery and

Manner. Ed. Sally and Robert Fitzgerald. New York: Noonday, 1961. 36-50.

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Articles

In a reference book
Boritt, Garbor. "Civil War." The World Book Encyclopedia. 2001 ed.

In a magazine
Ewers, Justin, and Anna Haigh. “Getting into College.” U.S. News and World Report 30

Aug. 2004: 68-76.

In a newspaper
Essoyan, Susan. “Hawaii's SAT scores are down slightly.” Honolulu Star-Bulletin 26

Aug. 2003 A14.

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World Wide Web Sites

Format: Author's name (last name first), Title of article (in quotes), Site name (in italics), date accessed, and the complete URL address <in angle brackets>. Note: If you must divide a URL between two lines, break it only after a slash.

The entire web site
Bartley.com: Great Books Online. Ed. Steven H. van Leeuwen. 2005. 30 Nov. 2006

<http://www.bartleby.com>.

A work from a larger web site
Whitman, Walt. “O Captain! My Captain!” Leaves of Grass. 1900. Bartleby.com: Great

Books Online. Ed. Steven H. van Leeuwen. 1999. 30 Nov. 2006.

<http://www.bartleby.com/142/193.html>.

A site with an author
Grayson, Ian. "Testing time for Schools, Students." 2 Sep. 2005, Cable News Network.

30 Nov. 2006 <http://www.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/09/02/execed.gmat/index.html>.

A web site with no author
"Kenya." The World Factbook 2006 . 14 June 2006. Central Intelligence Agency. 30 Nov.

2006. <http://odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html>.

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Online image

Format: Author's name if available (last name first). "Desciption or title of image." Date of image. Online image. Site name (in italics). Institution and city where the original image/artwork is held, if known. Date accessed, and the complete URL address <in angle brackets>. Note: You may add the specific type of online image (i.e., map, cartoon, chart or graphic).

Delacroix, Eugene. "Arabs Skirmishing in the Mountains." 1863. Online image. National

Gallery of Art , Washington D.C. 30 Nov. 2006.

<http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg93/gg93-50404.0.html>.

"China." 2006. Map. China Country Page, U.S. Dept. of State. 30 Nov. 2006.

<http://www.state.gov/p/eap/ci/ch>.

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Online Services

Format: Author's name (last name first). Article title (in quotes). Magazine or newspaper title (in italics), publication date and page. Name of the online service. Date accessed, and the complete URL address <in angle brackets>.

ABC-CLIO
"Westward Expansion." American History. 2006. ABC-CLIO. 30 Nov. 2006

<http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com>.

eBook
Bawden, Timothy. "Vacation and Leisure." Dictionary of American History. Ed. Stanley I.

       Kutler. Vol. 8. 3rd ed. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003. p.305. 10 vols. Gale

       Virtual Reference Library. Thomson Gale. 30 Nov. 2006. <http://find.galegroup.com>.

EbscoHost
Ewers, Justin, and Anna Haigh. "Getting into College." U.S. News and World Report 30

       August 2004: 68-76. MasterFile Premier. EbscoHost. 30 Nov. 2006.

       <http://search.epnet.com>.

Encyclopedia Britannica
"Kenya." Encyclopedia Britannica. 2006. Encyclopedia Britannica Online. 30. Nov. 2006.

<http://search.eb.com/eb/article-918063>.

Lexis-Nexis
Kakutani, Michiko. "The course of Social Change Through College Admissions." New

York Times 25 Nov. 2005:Late ed. E44. Scholastic Edition. Lexis-Nexis. 30 Nov.

2006 <http://www.lexis-nexis.com/scholastic>.

LitFinder
Whitman, Walt. "O Captain! My Captain!" LitFinder for Schools. 2006. ThomsonGale.

30 Nov.2006.<http:www.litfinder.com/search/

worx.asp?R=77776193&act=A70&rothST=0%20captain>.

World Book Online
Commins, Stephen K. "Kenya." World Book Online Reference Center. 2006. World

Book. 30 Nov. 2006. <http://www.worldbookonline.com>.

World Geography
"Kenya: Government." World Geography. 2006. ABC-CLIO. 30 Nov. 2006.

<http://www.worldgeography.abc-clio.com>.

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