English - Building a Bibliography

• Put entries in the Bibliography into alphabetical order
• If your essay is in English, make your bibliography in English
• Give author's last name first (example "Ibsen, Henrik"). Give the 
  author's name as it appears on the title page 
• If a book has more than one author, reverse only the 
  name of the first author 
• Line 2 in an entry starts with an indentation of five spaces 

Main Rule:
Last Name, First Name.
     Title. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year.

Printed Material
BOOK, One Author:
Birch, Anthony H. The Concepts and Theories of Modern Democracy.
     London: Routledge, 1993.

BOOK, Two or Three Authors:
Morison, Samuel Eliot, Henry Steele Commager, and William E.                   
     Leuchtenburg. A Concise History of the American Republic. New York: 
     Oxford University Press, 1983.

BOOK, More than Three Authors:
Kenny, Brian, et al. Cases in Business Policy. New York: Basil Blackwell,  
     1987.

BOOK, with Editor:
Evans, Sterling, ed. American Indians in American History 1870-2001: a  
     Companion Reader. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002.

BOOK, One Volume in a Multivolume Work:
Craig, Edward, ed. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Vol. 3. 
     London: Routledge, 1998.

CHAPTER in a Book with Editor:
Newman, Judie. "Paleface into Redskin: Cultural Transformations in Alison  
     Lurie's Foreign  Affairs." Forked Tongues? Comparing Twentieth-Century 
     British and American Literature.  Eds. Ann Massa and Alistair Stead. 
     London: Longman, 1994. 188-205.

JOURNAL ARTICLE:
Goodson, Ivor. "The Social History of School Subjects." Scandinavian 
     Journal of Educational Research 34.2 (1990): 111-23.

REFERENCE BOOK ARTICLE:
     Without Author:
"Renaissance." The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Micropaeida.  15th ed., 
     1991.

When citing (referring to) familiar reference books which frequently are 
published in new editions, list only the edition and the year of publication.

With Author:
Enger, Trond. "Pietism." The Oxford companion to Christian thought.
     Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 539-41.

When citing (referring to) less familiar reference books, give full 
publication information.

Electronic Source/World Wide Web. 
Without Author:
HOMEPAGE:
Literary Heritage West Midlands. 10 Jan. 2003. Retrieved 30 July 2003.
     <www.literaryheritage.org.uk> 
 
With Author:
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE:
Leonard, John. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Nobody Ecpects 
     the Inquisition".  New York Times. 27 July 2003. Retrieved 30 July  
     2003.  
      <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/13/books/review/13LEONART.
      html?ex=1059796800&en=0684ae3efc9d43d5&ei=5070>
     

ARTICLE RETRIEVED FROM A DATABASE:
Hopkin, James. "Oh, come on, Dave". New Statesman. 1 Nov. 1999: 54.
     Database:  Academic Search Elite. Retrieved 9 Sept. 2002.
      <http://ebscohost.com/>

HOMEPAGE:
Brians, Paul. Home page of Paul Brians. Retrieved 16 Sept. 2002.
     <http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/science_fiction/handmaid.html>

PAGE ON A WEBSITE:
Brians, Paul. "Study guide to Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale". 26  
     Sept. 2000. Retrieved 26 Sept. 2002.
     <http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/science_fiction/handmaid.html>

Unpublished Work
Make a separate list of unpublished material used in an essay. 

Examples:
Olsen, Per. "Myths and Fairy Tales". Lecture. Høgskolen i Østfold, Halden.
     28 okt. 2001.

Hansen, Anne. "Teaching English as a Second Language". E-mail to
     Bill Speareshake. 10 Apr. 2002.

Clinton, Hillary Rodham. Personal interview. 2 May 2002