1. Check with your teacher to find out what they want and what they want it called!

2. A bibliography is a list of all items that were used as source material when researching an assignment. You should keep a record of everything you read just in case you mention something that you don’t remember referencing. If you annotate everything... You cannot be charged with plagiarism unless you use the exact language from the document.

3. The bibliography appears on a separate page, press [CTRL]+[Enter] with the title Bibliography or References, or Works Cited. The bibliography is placed as the last page of an assignment.

4. The bibliographic entry for a book has five pieces of information: Author, Title, City of Publication, Publisher, Year of Publication. Other sources require a variation of this information Look at SourceIT to determine how to put the authors in for multiple authors and no authors...etc

5.  The font and title should be “consistent” with the styles used in the main body of the assignment.

6. Each entry is single spaced, hanging indent, with double spacing between entries. Use the hanging indent on the ruler to indent the second line of the entry. The first line is not tabbed. Pay close attention to the punctuation and format for each type of source.

7.  Once you have all of your materials in your list and set up with hanging indents, you need to put them in alphabetical order.  To be lazy, highlight the body of the bibliography (not the Title)  Press the sort button on the home tab, and it will alphabetize the list

8.  Every citation you make in your paper must refer to an entry in your Bibliography!  The simplest way to cite sources parenthetical references or embedded citations.  Check with your teacher and make sure that embedded citations are acceptable, as some are still

9.  The author’s last name and the page number from which the quotation, paraphrase or idea is taken must appear in the text in brackets.  For example:  ….One runaway states “Drunk, my dad couldn’t work steady anymore, so he’d work on and off. He’d sober up for work and tank up after work.” (Webber 126)…

10.  If you cite another paragraph from the same work, or if the author or authors are clearly indicated in your text, common sense dictates that you only need to add page number(s) for the citation.  For example:  …….According to Webber, street kids are more likely to suffer abuse at the hands of their parents. (123)……..

11.  If you are citing two or more articles by the same author, distinguish the sources by adding a date after the author's last name, e.g. (Webber 1991 54), (Webber 2000 62-64); or by adding an abbreviation of the title after the last name, e.g. (Webber Street kids 21), (Webber Homeless 35-40).

12.  If you are quoting from a Web page, your citation for a parenthetical reference follows the same format as any regular citations for author, editor, title, etc. with one exception. Where no page reference is available on a Web page, indicating only the author's last name, or the short title, without page reference, e.g. (Child Welfare League) or (Hynes) would be all you need for a parenthetical reference provided that a corresponding entry has been made in your Works Cited list.

13.  Place quotations longer than four lines in a block of lines, indented an extra inch on the left margin, and omit the quotation marks. Note the ruler on the example below.  Start the quotation on a new line. Your citation should come after the quotation.

14.  When quoting from plays, cite the act, scene, and line numbers for Shakespeare’s plays, and the page number, act and scene (if any) for other plays.