SDUHSD Bibliography Form

A bibliography is a list of all the books and other resources you use while gathering information to write a report. When you use another person's work, you must identify the work by using standard citation format (Modern Language Association, MLA). Each work is identified by three key elements: author, title or source and publication information. A period and two spaces follow each section; the first line starts at the left margin, the second and any succeeding lines are indented five spaces. Each resource is listed separately and all entries are arranged in alphabetical order. Titles may be underlined or in italics.
Compiled by SDUHSD library media teachers.

Books

One Author:
Ward, Geoffrey C. The West. Boston: Little Brown, 1996.

Two or more authors:
Gibaldi, Joseph and Walter S. Achtert. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.
New York: Modern Language Association, 1988.

No Author:
A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union. New York: Collins, 1987

Editor:
Famighetti, Robert. Ed. World Almanac 1997. New Jersey, World Almanac books, 1997.

Organization or group as author:
American Medical Association. Practical Family Health. New York: Reader's Digest, 1990.

Anthology:
Marguilies, Donald. "The Loman Family Picnic, a Play in Two Acts." The Burns Mantle
Theater Yearbook of 1989-1990. New York: Applause, 1990. 131-150.

Encyclopedias

Signed article:
Fitzgerald, F. Patrick. "Alaska." World Book Encyclopedia. 1996 ed.

Unsigned article:
"Allegheny River." Academic American Encyclopedia. 1996 ed.

Newspapers, Magazine or Periodicals

Signed article:
Newman, Richard J. "The Best University." U.S. News and World Report. 28 September
1992: 78.

Unsigned article:
"Saddam's Republican Guards." Time Magazine. 4 February 1991: 24.

Editorials:
Schmemann, Serge. "The World According to Gorbachev Disappears." Editorial. New York
Times. 8 December 1991: E3.