Citing Sources Guide

• Include a Header with your last name and page number on all pages in the upper right-hand corner 
• Do not include a title page unless it is a group project
  • Your name, instructor name, course, and date (day month year, i.e., 6 June 2019) are in the upper left-hand corner of the first page, skipping a line between each entry
• Center the paper's title. Do not use bold; use italics or quotations
• Double-space the paper
• Use 12-point font
• Insert one space after all punctuation
• Use 1-inch margins
• Use a 0.5-inch indent of the first line of paragraphs

Works Cited

The Works Cited list provides all bibliographic information on all sources cited in your work.

• Works Cited list is located at the end of the paper
• The list should be double-spaced with no space between entries
• Use hanging indent to indent the second and subsequent entry lines .5 inches from the left margin
• Arrange entries in alphabetical order by the first element, usually the author. If there is no author, use the title
• Alphabetize letter by letter of the author's name before the comma. Letters after the comma are used only when authors have the same last name
• For multiple works by the same author, alphabetize by title. Also, replace the author's name with three hyphens on the second and subsequent entries
• Alphabetize titles letter by letter ignoring initial articles (A, An, The, and foreign equivalents)
• The location of an online work should include a URL
  • Omitting the http:// or https:// protocols
• End all citations with a period

Pagination

• When noting page numbers on the Works Cited page, use one p. for a single page and double pp. for multiple pages
  • p. 92
  • pp. 198-208
• When the pages have a hundred or thousand pages, you may omit the number if it is the same as the preceding number
  • pp. 208 - 32
• "When noting page numbers in parenthetical citations, omit the "p." or "pp."
  • (Walsh 22)
  • (Walsh 122-23)