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How Do I Make a Bibliography?

A Guide for Elementary School Students

Use this to create a quick citation that you can copy and paste into your bibliography.

Ask your librarian for help using this resource.

Use the patterns below to make a list of sources you used. Put your list in alphabetical order. Remember to indent all lines 5 spaces except the first line.

Books

Last Name, First Name. Name of book. City of publication:: Publisher's name, Copyright Date.

Example:
Greenfield, Eloise. Rosa Parks. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell: Company, 1973.

Encyclopedias (print)

"Article title". Name of encyclopedia. Copyright Date.

Example:
"Ant". World Book Encyclopedia. 1990.

CD-ROM (Encyclopedia)

Author (last name, first name). "Name of article." Name of encyclopedia.: CD-ROM. City: Publisher, Copyright Date.

Example:
McGinnis, Terri. "Dog." The World Book Multimedia Encyclopedia.: CD-ROM. Chicago: World Book, Inc. 1995.

On-Line Magazine Article

Author. "Title." Journal Date. Date you read it URL

Example:

Halls, Kelly. "Juggling History." U.S. Kids June 1997. 10 Mar 2000

<http://discoverer.sirs.com/cgi-bin/dis-article- display?id=MA152516791158&artno=031110&searchkey=apples>.

Magazine Article

Author. "Title of Article." Name of magazine DD Mo. YYY: Pages.
Example:
Markham, Lois. "A Gallery of Great Native Americans.": Kids Discover Aug.-Sep. 1966: 6-7.

World Wide Web

Author. "Title." Group Title. Date created or revised. Institution.: Date you saw it. <URL>
Example:
"Bones." Newton's Apple. National Science Teacher's Association. 10 March 2000.: <http://ericir.syr.edu/Projects/Newton/14/bones12.htm>

Interview

Last Name, First Name. Kind of interview. DD Mo. YYYY.

Example:
Goodkind, Mary. Personal interview. 4 Sept. 1996.

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This page was developed during the summer of 1997 and 1998, supported by a Lexington Education Foundation grant to the Lexington Public School's Department of Libraries and Information Technologies. Authors and developers were Linda Corbett, Library Media Specialist, Fiske Elementary School; Margaret Donovan, Library Media Specialist, Lexington High School and Web Manager; Susan Lum, Library Media Specialist, Lexington High School; Martha Stanton, Coordinator, Libraries and Information Technologies; Arden Veley, Library Media Specialist, Clarke Middle School; and Caryn Werlin, Library Media Specialist, Bridge Elementary School.