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Turabian - Works Cited Entries

In your Works Cited page, list only the articles and books you have actually cited in your paper, not every work you have consulted. List them in alphabetical order by the author's last name, or by the first main word in the title, if no author is available.  

Works Cited

Anderson, Clyde, Jr. "The Telephone in Rural America." New York Times 
     Magazine 10 (29 December 1974), 10-11, 26-27, 29-31.

"Communication Costs in the 1980s." Changing Times 32 (February 
     1978), 45-47.

Dillon, J. "Build Your Own Telephone." Motor Mechanics 134 
     (December 1974), 70.

Franz, M. "Chirping Crickets, Low-Flying Bats and Croaking Frogs." 
     Organic Gardening and Farming 23 (November 1976), 120-122.

Grosswirth, Marvin. "The Influence of the Telephone on American Life." 
     Science Digest 80 (September 1976), 63-69. 

Humphreys, W. J. Families in Pictures. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins 
     Co., 1923.

Ross, Irwin. "The Telephone of the Future." Mechanic Illustrated 70 
     (May 1974), 16, 152-3.

Smith, L. P. "1920s Families." Encyclopedia Britannica, 1975.

Thompson, Philip D., Robert O'Brien, and Editors of Life. 
     Communications. New York: Time, Inc., 1965.
 
 
 

You can find more detailed information in A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by Kate L. Turabian, 6th edition. You may check this book out from the Hawley Academic Resource Center.

Examples of Works Cited Entries
 
Your Works Cited list appears at the end of your paper, on a separate page (or pages). If you are using endnotes, your Works Cited list follows your endnotes. If you are using footnotes, your footnotes appear at the bottom of each page, and your Works Cited list appears at the end of the entire paper. Works Cited entries must be arranged in alphabetical order. See the sample Works Cited page in this handout for an example.
 
Bible 

The Holy Bible, New International Version. Grand Rapids, Michigan:  
     Zondervan Corp., 1984. 

Book-No Author 

Book of Modern Art. San Francisco: Smith, 1967. 

Book-One Author 

Day, Julie. The Revolution in Mexico. Chicago: University of Chicago 
     Press, 1970. 

Book-Two or More Authors 

Beach, David, Michael J. Hunt and Mark Finch. Man in Crisis. New 
     York: World Press, 1978.  

Article in an Anthology 

Hickock, Mary. "The Domestic Life of Dogs." In Companion Animals: 
     A  Study in Comparative Culture, ed. John Browne, 112-132. New  
     York: Scribner, 1980.  

Article or Chapter in a Larger Work by One Author 

Andrews, John. "The Underside of Casablanca." Chap. in The Films of 
     Humphrey Bogart. New York: Vintage Books, 1988.  

Book-Editor Instead of Author 

Andrews, Sara, ed. The World of the Future. New York: Ken K. Edel, 
     1972.  

Second Work by the Same Author 

________. A Study of Rocks. New York: Horton, 1982. 

(Books by the same author are arranged either alphabetically or chronologically. This reference is for another book by Sara Andrews. The line is the underscore key struck 8 times.)
 

Translation 

Hibbs, Allison. China. Translated by Betty Muel. New York: Holmes, 
     1962.  

Author's Work Contained in Collected Works 

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. The Search for Being: Essays from  
     Kierkegaard to Sartre on the Problem of Existence. Edited by  
     William Kimmel and Jean T. Wilde. The Use and Abuse of History.  
     New York: Noonday Press, 1962.  

Multivolume Work 

Andrews, John B. ed. et al. A Documentary History of American 
     Industrial Society. Vol. 3, Labor Conspiracy Cases 1806-1842, by 
     John R. Commons and Eugene A. Gilmore. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark 
     Co., 1910.  

Signed Encyclopedia Article 

Runes, Dagobert D. and Harry G. Schrickel, eds. Encyclopedia of the 
     Arts. New York: Philosophical Library, 1946, s.v. "African Negro
     Art," by James A. Porter.  

Unsigned Encyclopedia Article 

Encyclopedia Britannica, 1973 ed., s.v. "Photography."   

Article in Journal With Continuous Pages 

Lobach, Melissa R. "Integrating Curriculum." The Reading Teacher 48  
     (1995): 522.  

Article in Journal That Pages Each Issue Separately 

Lopez, David and Susan McLester. "Smart Choices for the ESL 
     Classroom: Steps to English Language." Technology and Learning 14 
     (April 1994): 23, 30.  

Signed Article in Monthly Magazine 

Alpers, Svetlana. "Post-Genius Venice." Art in America, 20 March
     1995,  62. 

(If the article is in a weekly periodical, the date should look like this: 7 August 1993.)
 

Unsigned Article in Periodical 

"Pilot Calls for Help." New York Times, 8 June 1976, 13.  

Published Interviews 

Fowles, John. "A Conversation with John Fowles." Interview by Robert 
     Foulke (Lyme Regis, 3 April 1984). Salmagundi, no. 68-69 (Fall 
     1985-Winter 1986): 367-84.  

Unpublished Interview 

Roemer, Mrs. Mearle A. Interview by author. Tape recording, Millington, 
     Maryland, 26 July 1997.  

Institution, Association, etc. as Author 

American Library Association, Young Adult Services Division, Services 
     Statement Development Committee. Directions for Library Service
     to Young Adults. Chicago: American Library Association, 1978.   

Dissertation 

Jones, M.C. "The Aim of Academic Achievement." Ph.D. diss., New
     York Press, 1975.  

Films 

Baily, Chad, dir. Muppets Live Performance. Paramount, 1980.  

CD-ROMs 

Toner, Robin, "Senate Approves Welfare Plan." New York Times, 20 
     September 1995, national ed., A1, New York Times Ondisc  
     [CD-ROM], UMI-Proquest, December 1995.

 

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