SAMPLE ENTRY FORMATS

NOTE:

Titles have been highlighted. When writing your papers, either underline or italicize titles.

• author's last name, first name [separated by a comma & followed by a period]
• title of book [underlined and followed by a period]
• place of publication [followed by a colon and 2 spaces]
• publisher's name [followed by a comma]
• year of publication [followed by a period]

Baker, Houston A., Jr.  Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American 
     Literature: A Vernacular Theory.  Chicago:  University of
     Chicago Press, 1984.

• author's last name, first name [separated by a comma and followed by a comma and the word "and"]
• 2nd author's first name and last name [followed by a period]
• title of book [underlined and followed by a period]
• place of publication [followed by a colon and 2 spaces]
• publisher's name [followed by a comma]
• year of publication [followed by a period]

Raye, Louise, and Sandra Knight.  Somebody's Watching, God:  A 
     Collection of Essays on Zora Neale Hurston.  Boston:
     Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

• editor's last name, first name [separated by a comma and followed by the abbreviation "ed."]
• title of book [underlined and followed by a period]
• place of publication [followed by a colon and 2 spaces]
• publisher's name [followed by a comma]
• year of publication [followed by a period]

Bloom, Harold, ed.  Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching
     God.  New York:  Chelsea House, 1987. 

• author's last name, first name [separated by a comma and followed by a period]
• title of the article [in quotations, with a period inside the end quote mark]
• title of the journal [underlined]
• volume of the journal [followed by a dot and the issue number, if appropriate]
• year of publication [in parentheses and followed by a colon and two spaces]
• span of pages [followed by a period]

Wolff, Maria Tai.  "Listening and Living:  Reading and Experience
     in Their Eyes."  Black American Literature Forum 16.1 (1982):
     29-33. 

• author's last name, first name [separated by a comma and followed by a period]
• titles, volumes, years, pages--all relevant information in in the appropriate format for a book or article citation [using punctuation, capitalization, and underlining as needed]
• the word Online. the location if available. the word "Internet," and the date you accessed the material [each followed by a period]
• the word "Available" and the electronic address, if your instructor asks for this information [separated by a colon and ending with a period]

Hurston, Zora Neale.  Their Eyes Were Watching God.  1937.  Online.
     U of Minnesota Lib. Internet. 26 July 1995. Available:
     gopher.cic.net. 

• a work in an anthology
• an article in a journal paginated by issue
• an article in a newspaper
• a videotape
• a musical composition
• a lecture
• and many more types of sources

• Diana Hacker's A Writer's Reference

EXERCISE 13: DOCUMENTATION AT END OF PAPER - MLA