1. A Guide to Works Cited and In-Text Citations

2. Works Cited: Basic  The author’s name or a book with a single author's name appears in last name, first name format.  Format: Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.  Example Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. Denver: MacMurray, 1999. Print.

3. A Work in an Anthology, Reference, or Collection  Works may include an essay in an edited collection or anthology, or a chapter of a book.  Format: Lastname, First name. "Title of Essay." Title of Collection. Ed. Editor's Name(s). City of Publication: Publisher, Year. Page range of entry. Medium of Publication.

4. More than three Authors/Editors?  List only the first author/editor followed by the phrase “et al.”  Note that there is a period after “al” in “et al.”  Example: Wysocki, Anne Frances, et al. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Logan: Utah State UP, 2004. Print.

5. Works Cited: Electronic Sources Format: Editor or Author. Name of Title. Name of Site. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation (if available). Medium of publication. Date of access.

6. Our Sources Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Black Cat.” Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library. Jan. 1995. Web. 15 Nov. 2012. Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library. Jan. 1995. Web. 15 Nov. 2012. Literature Textbook Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Tell-Tale Heart.” McDougal Littell Literature. Ed. Janet Allen, et al. Evanston: McDougal Littell, 2008. 78-83. Print.

7. In-text Citation  For a basic in-text citation you place the author and page number in parenthesis, following the borrowed information  Example Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263).

8. Citing Multiple Works by the Same Author  Include a shortened title (put short titles of books in italics and short titles of articles in quotation marks)  Example Lightenor has argued that computers are not useful tools for small children ("Too Soon" 38), though he has acknowledged elsewhere that early exposure to computer games does lead to better small motor skill development in a child's second and third year ("Hand-Eye Development" 17).

9. Author's Name Not Mentioned in Passage…  Include author's name followed by a comma, followed by a shortened title of the work, followed, when appropriate, by page numbers  Example Visual studies, because it is such a new discipline, may be "too easy" (Elkins, "Visual Studies" 63).