Works Cited Entries For Books
Where do you find bibliographic information for your works-cited page?
Locating the bibliographic information for your works-cited page depends on the source you have found. Read the examples below to find out where to look for bibliographic information for
- print books
- periodical articles in print
- articles located in subscription databases
- materials from public access Web sites
Print Books
You will find most of the bibliographic information for print books (author(s), title, place of publication, and publisher) on the title page; sometimes the date will be on the title page, but more often it is on the copyright page. In the images below the necessary information has been annotated.
Title Page:
Copyright Page (verso):
Now you have all the information you need to create the citation below.
Template:
Author last name, Author first name. Book Title.
City of publication: publisher, publication date. Print.
Filled in Citation:
Gogol, Nikolai. Dead Souls. New York: Modern
Library, 1936. Print.
Periodical Articles in Print
Sometimes you will go to a library and obtain a print copy of a periodical article, or you may receive an article in PDF format from an interlibrary loan request (such as from our DocumentExpress service). You will cite both types of articles in the same way--as print articles. For your citation you will usually find the article (author, title) and the periodical information (title, year, volume, issue number) you need on the first page of the article. In the images below the necessary information has been annotated.
Now you have all the information you need to create the citation below.
Template:
Author last name, Author first name. "Article Title."
Periodical Title volume number (year): pages. Print.
Filled in Citation:
Kemp, Wendy C. " Persistence of Adult Learners in
Distance Education." American Journal of
Distance Education 16 (2002): 65-81. Print.
Subscription Databases and Public Access Web Sites
Information about locating the necessary information for articles you find in subscription databases and sample citations are on the next page.
Bibliographic information for materials you find on the public access Web is often incomplete; read the next section for more information about how to locate it.
(This content is used with permission of Library & Information Services, University of Maryland University College.)
