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1. The Works Cited page appears in your paper after all the pages of text in the body. On this page, you will list all the complete information about each of your sources, and you will list each one once only.

2. Make sure that your spacing is set to double-space.

3. At the top of the page, center and type the words

Works Cited and then press enter once.

4. On the menu bar, select

FORMAT, and then PARAGRAPH. In the second group of choices (INDENTATION) look for the word SPECIAL on the right side, and click the arrow. From the choices that drop down, select HANGING.

Works Cited page need to be typed in a style called hanging indention. This means that the first line of each entry will be at the left margin, but all the others will be indented five spaces.

BOOK BY A SINGLE AUTHOR OR EDITOR1.

BEGIN WITH THE AUTHOR’S NAME, IF GIVEN., LAST NAME FIRST, THEN FIRST NAME, FOLLOWED BY A PERIOD. IF THE AUTHOR IS DESCRIBED ON THE TITLE PAGE AS THE EDITOR OF THE BOOK, WRITE HIS NAME THIS WAY: Kirsch, Arthur C., ed.

 2.

FOLLOW THIS WITH THE TITLE OF THE BOOK, UNDERLINED, FOLLOWED BY A PERIOD.

 3.

FOLLOW THIS WITH THE PLACE OF PUBLICATION. INCLUDE THE CITY AND STATE (USE THE TWO LETTER STATE ABBREVIATION)UNLESS THE CITY IS A MAJOR CITY, LIKE NEW YORK, OR A WORLD CAPITOL CITY. FOLLOW THIS WITH A COLON.

 4.

PUT IN THE NAME OF THE PUBLISHER OF THE BOOK, FOLLOWED BY A COMMA.

 5.

PUT IN THE YEAR IN WHICH THE BOOK WAS COPYRIGHTED.

Kirsch, Arthur C. Dryden’s Heroic Drama. New York: Crowell, 1984.

BOOK BY TWO OR THREE AUTHORS OR EDITORS

1.

FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS FOR BOOK BY A SINGLE AUTHOR, BUT INCLUDE THE NAMES OF BOTH (OR ALL THREE) OF THE AUTHORS IN THE SAME ORDER IN WHICH THEY APPEARED ON THE TITLE PAGE. AUTHORS SHOULD BE IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER. FIRST AUTHOR= LAST NAME, FIRST NAME. REMAINING AUTHORS= FIRST NAME LAST NAME

Howard, John and Arthur Mendel. Religion and the University. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1964.

BOOK BY A CORPORATE AUTHOR

1.

GIVE THE NAME OF THE COMPANY OR ORGANIZATION LISTED ON THE TITLE PAGE AS IF IT WERE THE NAME OF THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK.

2.

FOLLOW THE FORMAT FOR BOOK BY A SINGLE AUTHOR FOR THE REST OF IT.

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American Psychological Association. Publication Manual. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2001.

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION1.

USE AS THE AUTHOR THE NAME OF THE GOVERNMENT THAT CREATED THE WORK

 

2.

FOLLOW THIS WITH THE AGENCY WITHIN THE GOVERNMENT THAT WAS RESPONSIBLE.

 

3.

FOLLOW THIS WITH THE TITLE INFORMATION.

 

4.

YOU MAY USE THE ABBREVIATION GPO TO STAND FOR GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, THE PUBLISHER FOR THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.

United States. Congressional Committee on the Investigation of the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. Report of the Warren Commission. Washington, DC: GPO, 1966.