Citing Sources in Bibliographies, Works Cited, or Reference Lists

Check with the instructor who will be grading the paper to learn the instructor's citation style preferences.

Refer also to MLA (Modern Language Association) or APA (American Psychological Association) style manuals.

Refer also to the Karrmann Library's Citation Guides and Writer's Resources web page.

Use RefWorks
citation software for UWP users to build
bibliographies and a personal database of records.

For Chicago Style examples, please visit UW-Madison's Writing Center

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The following are examples of possible citations.

Journal Article - Online Through a Library's Subscription

MLA Style  [5.9.7]
      			
Lastname, Author. "Title of Article." Title of Journal month year: 
  		
	page-page. Database Title. Database vendor name. Name of  

	library where accessed, with city and state, if useful. Date  

	accessed <service's home page, if known>.

Whittier, L. Elena. "Teaching Evolution to Non-English Proficient Students by Using 

	Lego Robotics."  American Secondary Education Summer 2007: 19-28
	
	Academic Search Elite.  EBSCO. U of Wisconsin-Platteville, Elton S.  

	Karrmann Library.  11 November 2007 <http://www.epnet.com/>.
	
	

APA Style [suppl. p.7]

Note: These examples follow changes in the APA style (from the supplement listed above) adopted in the summer of 2007.

Lastname, A. (year). Title of article. Title of Journal, volume, (issue) page-page. 
   
 	Digital Object Identifier (DOI). 
Stultz, J. (2006). Integrating exposure therapy and analytic therapy in trauma 

	treatment. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 76(4), 482-488. 
	
	doi:10.1037/0002-9432.76.4.482

Notes from the APA:
The final or archival version of the article is being referenced, so there is no need to include retrieval date.

The article was retrieved from the PsycARTICLES database. However, no database name or URL is needed because the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) functions as both a unique identifier of the content (taking the place of a database name or accession number) and a link to the content (taking the place of a URL).

Sillick, T. J., & Schutte, N. S. (2006). Emotional intelligence and self-esteem 

	mediate between perceived early parental love and adult happiness. 
	
	E-Journal of Applied Psychology, 2(2), 38-48. Retrieved from

 	http://ojs.lib.swin.edu.au/index.php/ejap/article/view/71/100

Hager, M. H. (2007). Therapeutic diet order writing: Current issues and 

	considerations. Topics in Clinical Nutrition, 22(1), 28-36. 
	
	Retrieved from http://www.topicsinclinicalnutrition.com

Notes from the APA:
If there is no DOI assigned, give the exact URL (if the content is open-access) or the URL of the journal home page (if the content is accessible by subscription).

No retrieval date is included because the final version of the article is being referenced.

Web Site

MLA [5.9.2.]
Title of the Site. Name of the editor of the site, if given. Date of electronic publication or of the latest update. Agency Sponsoring the Site. Date accessed <web address>. Plagiarism Prevention. Ed. Kay Young. 24 May 2007. Elton S. Karrmann Library, U of Wisconsin-Platteville. 9 November 2007 <www.uwplatt.edu/library/reference/plagiarism.html>.
APA [4.16.75] [4.16.77]
Author, A. A. (date of page). Title of work. Retrieved month day, year, from source Shirinov, A. (n.d.). Microrobotics. Retrieved October 30, 2007, from http://alex.shirinov.com/RInterests.html#microrobotics National Nanotechnology Initiative. (n.d.). Retrieved February 3, 2007, from http:www.nano.gov/index.html

Note: Do not end the reference with a period, if the period would follow a URL.
If no author is given, begin citation with the title.

Newspaper - Online

MLA [5.9.4b]
Grynbaum, Michael M. "Stocks Down Again on Deepening Credit Worries." New York Times on the Web 9 November 2007. 11 November 2007 <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/business/09cnd- stox.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin>.
APA [suppl. p.22]	
Russon, G. (2007, November 9). Veterans, loved ones help Vietnam wall speak. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved from http://www.chicagotribune.com

Email message

MLA [5.9.9j] 
Writer, Name. "Subject of Message." E-mail to Recipient Name. Date of message. Krogman, John. "Implementation Survey Results." E-mail to Jennifer Snoek-Brown. 23 October 2007.
APA [4.03]  

Note: Personal communications are not cited in the reference list, but instead in the text of the paper, according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Section 3.102.

Example:  J. Krogman (personal communication, October 23, 2007)

Book, one author

MLA [5.6.1] 
Bottega, William. Engineering Vibrations. Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis, 2006.
APA  [4.16.B]
Crawford, J. (2006). Optimizing human capital with a strategic project office. Boca Raton: Auerbach.

Journal article-printed

  
MLA  [5.7.1] [5.7.2]
Zivin, Justin. "Understanding Clinical Trials." Scientific American 282.4 (2000): 69-75.
APA [4.16.1]  
Sander, C. (2000). Genomic medicine and the future of health care. Science, 287, 1977-1981.

Newspaper article-printed

MLA [5.7.5]  
Liptak, Adam. "In Case About Google's Secrets, Yours are Safe." New York Times 26 Jan. 2006:A1+.
APA [4.16.10] 
Curry, Jack. (2005, Nov. 16). Baseball backs stiffer penalties for steroid use. New York Times, pp. A1, D2. Weinbach, Jon. (2005, June 17). When players don't pay. Wall Street Journal, pp. W1, W8.

Note: In APA style, if a newspaper article is one page, use "p." but use "pp." when citing multiple-page articles.

Interviews

MLA   [5.8.7] 
Lansbury, Rita. Personal interview. 24 May 2000. Blackmun, Harry. Interview with Ted Koppel. Nightline. ABC. WABC, New York. 5 Apr. 1994.

Television broadcast

APA  [4.16.66] 
Crystal, L. (Executive Producer). (1993, October 11). The MacNeil/Lehrer news hour. [Television broadcast]. New York and Washington, DC: Public Broadcasting Service.

Book, written by a group

MLA [5.6.6]  
National Institute of Justice. Building Knowledge About Crime and Justice. Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Justice, 1997.
APA [4.16.24]	
National Criminal Justice Commission. (1996). The real war on crime. New York: HarperPerennial.

Book, no author given

MLA [5.6.11] 
Lean Supply Chain: Collected Practices and Cases. New York: Productivity Press, 2006.
APA  [4.16.26]    
Webster's II new college dictionary. (1995). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

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