Rules for Bibliography

Bibliography Examples

Bray, Rosemary. "Martin Luther King, Jr."  Kids Discover  Jan. 2001: 1-18.

Fidelman, Charlie.  "God's Fine Print."  The Montreal Gazette  19 Feb. 2001,
   final ed. : A1.

Kalman, Bobbie.  China : the Culture.  St. Catharines, Ontario: Crabtree
   Publishing Company, 2001.

Major, Kevin.  A Canadian ABeCedarium : Eh? to Zed.  Alberta: Red
   Deer Press, 2001.

Miller, John. "Dolphins."  Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. 1995 ed.
    Danbury: Grolier Incorporated, 1995.

"Spain."  The World Book Encyclopedia of People and Places.  1993 ed.

"Who was?  Alexander Graham Bell."  Brain Spin.  13 Feb. 2001. AT&T.
   15 Feb. 2001 <http://www.att.com/technology/forstudents/brainspin/alexbell/>

General Rules

For each item where you found information  for your project - write in order the author, the title, the city and publisher, the year  of publication, where this is possible.  

List all these items in alphabetical order by the author’s family name, or by the first word of the title if there is no author. Do not use the word “The” for the alphabetical order. These items will  be the books, magazines, encyclopedias, and web sites where you found information.  

  1. Newspaper: You need to find the name of the person who wrote the article and the title of the article. The title of the newspaper article is put in quotation marks “…….”. You also need the name of the newspaper, underlined, the date, the edition, section and page number.  
  1. Magazine: Write down the author of the article, the title in quotation marks “……”, the title of the magazine, underlined, the volume number of the magazine , its date, and the page numbers of the article.  
  1. Web site: You need the name of  the author, if there is one;  “the title of the page in quotation marks”; and the name of the site, underlined. You need the date the site was updated, followed by the organization producing the site. Then you need the date you looked at the site. The last thing you need is the complete address or URL of the page within the site in <….> brackets.  
  1. Encyclopedia (CD-ROM): You need to write down the topic you were looking up, the title of the encyclopedia, underlined, and the year and the edition of the encyclopedia. You need to write that it is in CD-ROM format.
  1. Encyclopedia (Book format): You need the topic, the title of the encyclopedia underlined, and the year and the edition of the encyclopedia. 
  1. Book: You need the author of the book, family name first, the title of the book underlined; the city where the book was published; the publisher of the book; and the year the book was published.

Prepared by H. Krishtalka and J. Marcus /Herzliah St. Laurent/13 Feb. 2001 (MLA handbook, 5th ed.)