Parenthetical Documentation
Works Cited - General Formatting
Books
Articles
Miscelaneous
100
Parenthetical Citations Require the authors last name and this.
What is the page number?
100
The way that your works cited entries are arranged.
What is alphabetical order.
100
How Book Titles are formatted.
What is italics.
100
The Way you would identify an article title in your works cited entry.
What are quotation marks.
100
The Last word of every entry in your works cited page should be this.
What is the medium of the publication. (Print or Web)
200
The Parenthetical citation for a quote from page 34 of the article "Today's World" with no known author.
What is ("Today's World" 34).
200
The Title of your Works Cited Page
What is Works Cited
200
The first item on a book entry in your works cited page.
What is the author's last name.
200
The Way you would identify the page range of an article that starts on 500 and ends on 525 of an anthology.
What is 500-525.
200
Whenever you use a web source, in your works cited entry you must also include this after indicating "web."
What is the date of access
300
The Parenthetical reference for a quote found on page 243 of John Smith's Book.
What is (Smith 243).
300
The Place that your Works Cited Page should be placed.
What is a separate page at the end of your essay.
300
The Citation for Dale Walker's book, Changing Our Own Words, published in Chicago by the University of Chicago Press in 2003.
What is Walker, Dale. Changing Our Own Words (in italics). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. Print.
300
The significance of the number 24 in the following citation: Collins, Rose. "Teaching Writing." American Journalism (in italics.) 24.3 (2007):138-153. Web.
What is the Volume Number.
300
The Works Cited Entry for the article titled "Performance of the Week" found in Time Magazine with no listed author. The magazine was published on October 6th, 2003 and the article is found on page 8 of the magazine.
What is "Performance of the Week." Time Magazine (in italics). 6 Oct. 2003: 8. Print.
400
The Parenthetical for a quote found on page 300 of a book by Belenky, Tarule, Clingy, and Goldberger.
What is (Belenky et al. 300) or (Belenky, Tarule, Clingy, and Goldberger 300).
400
The size of the margins around the works cited page.
What is one inch.
400
The Citation for the book Victorian Women, by Cheryl Wall and edited by Lester Bangs. Published in New York, by Knopf in 2007.
What is Wall, Cheryl. Victorian Women (in italics). Ed. Lester Bangs. New York: Knopf, 2007. Print.
400
The Citation for the Article "Music and Writing" by William Goldman from pages 370 through 390 of the journal, The Writer's Motivation accessed through Crafton Hill's Library Database on February 10th, 2013. The volume of the journal is 45, the issue is 6, and was published in 2007.
What is Goldman, William. "Music and Writing." The Writer's Motivation (in italics). 45.6 (2007): 370-390. Crafton Hills Library Database (italics). Web. 10 Feb. 2013.
400
The Works cited entry for "Art Nouveau" by Alison Mcneil Kettering. The article was found in the printed version of the World Book Encyclopedia, 2002 edition.
What is Kettering, Alison Mcneil. "Art Nouveau." The World Book Engyclopedia (in italics). 2002 ed. Print.
500
The Parenthetical citation for an article found online, with no page numbers, by Mason Kalinsky.
What is (Kalinsky).
500
The way the entries should be indented.
What is a hanging indent.
500
The Citation for the article "writer's block" written by Samantha Brown on page 340 through 349 in the anthology All for Writers edited by Joseph Kelley. The Anthology was published in New York by Norton in 2001.
What is Brown, Samantha. "Writers Block." All For Writers (in italics). Ed. Joseph Kelley. New York: Norton, 2001. 340-349. Print.
500
The citation for the article, "Business: Global Warming's Boom Town; Tourism in Greenland," published on page 82 in The Economist. It was published in print on May 26 2007 and there was no known author.
What is "Business: Global Warming's Boom Town; Tourism in Greenland." The Economist (In italics) 26 May 2007: 82. Print.
500
Every Parenthetical citation should match this.
What is The first item of the entry in your works cited page.