COMM 1100 Ginn: Citations

 APA References

• All lines after the first line of each entry in your reference list should be indented one-half inch from the left margin. This is called hanging indentation.
• Authors' names are inverted (last name first); give the last name and initials for all authors of a particular work for up to and including seven authors. If the work has more than seven authors, list the first six authors and then use ellipses after the sixth author's name. After the ellipses, list the last author's name of the work.
• Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last name of the first author of each work.
• If you have more than one article by the same author, single-author references or multiple-author references with the exact same authors in the exact same order are listed in order by the year of publication, starting with the earliest.
• Capitalize all major words in journal titles.
• When referring to books, chapters, articles, or Web pages, capitalize only the first letter of the first word of a title and subtitle, the first word after a colon or a dash in the title, and proper nouns. Do not capitalize the first letter of the second word in a hyphenated compound word.
• Italicize titles of longer works such as books and journals.
• Do not italicize, underline, or put quotes around the titles of shorter works such as journal articles or essays in edited collections

For more information: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

Article in a Periodical: Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume number(issue number), pages.

Books: Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle. Location: Publisher.

Article in an Online Periodical (including Galileo Databases): Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article. Title of Online Periodical, volume number(issue number if available). Retrieved from http://www.someaddress.com/full/url/

MLA 2009 Formatting & Style Guide: Owl @ Purdue

-Work by a single author: (40b) pg.591.

-Work by two or more authors: (40b) pg.591

-Work in an Anthology: (40b) pg.595

-Online scholarly journal article: (40b) pg.605

-An Electronic Book (NetLibrary): (40b) pg. 606

Nadel, Alan. Invisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon. NetLibrary. University of Iowa Press, 2004. Web. 13 June 2008.