Remember the ABCs of citing: A – Author B – Book title or “Title of Article.” C s – City: Company name D – Date E – Every page.
A – Author Always: Last name, First name. Sometimes not available (encyclopedias usually do not include names)
B – Book title or “Title of Article.” Books - look on title page Encyclopedias - keyword you looked up. * example: “Black Holes” or “Washington, George” For magazines or Internet sites it is the “Article Title” * *B (part 2) – Source of Article and date published * Name of encyclopedia or magazine (print or online)
Cs Book or Encyclopedia: City: Company (who published the work) Online Resource Company responsible (Database) examples: Nettreker Gale SIRS NASA
D - date Book or Encyclopedia: copyright date Web page: date you accessed the site (today’s date) DD MMM YYYY [spell out May, June, & July] 1 09 Nov 2008
E Every page. For websites this is the URL ( (Uniform Resource Locator)
Citing The guidelines for citing electronic sources are not completely standardized. Skip the things you cannot find. will let you fill in the blanks and cite for you. Note: Encyclopedia Britannica, World Book Encyclopedia, and Gale already cite for you (go to the bottom of the page)
LaPorte, Robert. "Sri Lanka." World Book Online Reference Center Oct “Sri Lanka.” World Book Encyclopedia Vol. #18. Chicago: World Book, Inc., 2007: p 817. "Sri Lanka." Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. 4th ed. U*X*L, Kids InfoBits. Detroit: Gale, What it Looks Like: Works Cited