Tips
- Create your Bibliography on a separate page at the end of your paper; continue it on as many pages as necessary.
- Put the title, "Bibliography," at the top of the page.
- Alphabetize all citations in the list using the first word(s) of each citation.
- Begin each source entry flush with the left margin; if it runs more than one line, indent the subsequent line or lines half an inch from the left margin. This format is called a hanging indent. You can automatically create hanging indents in Word by:
- Select (highlight) the citations you want this action to apply to.
- On the Word ribbon located near the top of the screen go to the toolbar labeled "Paragraph."
- Click the expand arrow in the lower left corner of the "Paragraph" toolbar.
- In the "Paragraph" popup box that appears, under "Indentation" click on the drop down menu under "Special" and select "Hanging."
- Click "OK" at the bottom of the "Paragraph" popup box.
- Select (highlight) the citations you want this action to apply to.
Sample
Bibliography
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Ali, Kazam. “On Instafame & Reading Rupi Kaur.” Harriet (blog). Poetry Foundation, October 23, 2017. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2017/10/on-rupi-kaur. |
Blog post |
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brian_bilston. “you took the last bus home don't know how you got it through the door you're always doing amazing stuff like that time you caught a train.” Twitter, September 25, 2014. https://twitter.com/brian_bilston/status/515255249612070912?lang=en. |
Social media post using handle because real name unknown |
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Collier, Andrea King. “Nikki Giovanni: A Poetic Force.” Writer, October 2005. MasterFILE Premier. |
Magazine article from a library database |
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Covert, John. William Carlos Williams. 1950. Graphite with watercolor on paper, 25.3 x 20.3cm. National Portrait Gallery. http://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2007.169. |
Image from a website |
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Greer, Christina. “Celebrating Gwendolyn Brooks.” New York Amsterdam News, June 22, 2017. MasterFILE Premier. |
Newspaper article from a library database |
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Kohler, Michelle. "Ancient Brooch and Loaded Gun: Dickinson's Lively Objects." ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture 63, no. 2 (2017): 227-268. Project Muse. |
Journal article from a library database |
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Kooser, Ted. The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. |
Entire printed book |
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Kraxenberger, Maria, Winfried Menninghaus, Anna Roth, and Mathias Scharinger. “Prosody-Based Sound-Emotion Associations in Poetry.” Frontiers in Psychology 9 (July 25 2018). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01284. |
Journal article with multiple authors and no issue, using DOI as address |
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Lozada-Olivia, Melissa. My Spanish. Button Poetry, July 5, 2015. YouTube video, 3:36. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE-c4Bj_RT0. |
Video from a website |
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May, Jamaal. “Things That Break.” In The Best American Poetry 2017, edited by Natasha Trethewey, 83. New York: Scribner Poetry, 2017. |
Chapter or other part of an edited printed book |
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NEA Office of Research & Analysis. U.S. Trends in Arts Attendance and Literary Reading: 2002-2017. Washington, DC: National Endowment for the Arts, 2018. https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/2017-sppapreviewREV-sept2018.pdf. |
Booklet from a website with organization as author |
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Pardlo, Gregory. “Poet Gregory Pardlo Reflects On 'Ambition And Manhood In America’.” Interview by Terry Gross. Fresh Air, NPR, April 19, 2017. Audio, 36:58. https://www.npr.org/2018/04/23/604941796/pulitzer-prize-winning-poet-reflects-on-ambition-and-manhood-in-america. |
Audio from a website |