Western Civ

Every essay needs a list of books and other sources that you used to research your topic. This lists is known (at least in history) as a BIBLIOGRAPHY.

All your sources should be listed in your bibliography in alphabetical order by the author's last name.

Books

Any book in your bibliography needs to have the following information:

• Author's last name
• Author's first name
• Book Title
• City of Publication
• Publisher
• Date of Publication

Smith, Tom. I Love Penguins! Toronto: Penguin Press, 2009.

Magazines/Articles

For articles in magazines and other places, you need to list:

• Author's last name
• Author's first name
• Title of the article
• Title of the magazine
• Date of the magazine (or the Volume and Issue if appropriate)
• Pages that the article took in the magazine (such as 11-19)

Smith, Tom. "Aren't Penguins Cool?" The Penguin Magazine. March 2009. 13-18.

Websites

For any websites you use, you need to indicate:

• Author of the webpage with the last name followed by the first name (if it's shown. It usually isn't).
• Title of the page.
• Complete URL/address
• Date you last consulted the site.

I Love Penguins! www.penguinspenguins.com. Sept. 22, 2009.

Other Things to Things About

• Magazine, book and website titles should be underlined or italicized.
• Articles or single webpage titles should be put in quotation marks.
• If your entry is longer than one line, the second line should be indented. This is called a hanging indent and can be found in Word under the Format-Paragraph-Indents and Spacing.