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ENCYCLOPEDIAS, REFERENCE WORKS, & MULTIVOLUME SETS: PRINT AND ONLINE

The following examples of works cited citations are arranged with bolded explanatory material first, which you will not put it in your works cited list. The citation examples follow and should be double spaced and have a hanging indentation. However, hanging indentations are not easily displayed on the Internet. If they look odd on your computer, follow the format shown in the box at the end of the examples.

Print and Online Reference Articles - Basic elements of reference citations

Citing Reference Articles in Print
Citing Online Reference Articles

Print

The citations contain the following elements in the order given.

Author (if available)
Article title
Publication title
Editor of publication
Place
Publisher
Date

Examples: General, Subject, Special Encyclopedia Works

General Encyclopedia Article - Author Listed

Jaffe, Jerome H., M.D. "Drug Addiction and Abuse." Encyclopedia Americana.

Danbury CT: Scholastic Library Pub., 2005.

General Encyclopedia Article - No Author

"Islam." The New Encyclopædia Britannica: Micropaedia. 15th ed.

Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2002.

Subject Encyclopedia - Author of article listed first, editor within

Nagi, Saad Z. "Violence in the Family: Child Abuse."

Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice. Ed. Sanford H. Kadish. New York: Macmillan, 1983.

U.S. Government Publications - Articles or Tables

U.S. Bureau of the Census. "No. 139. Suicides, by Race, Age, and Method:

1980 to 1994." Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1997.

Washington, DC: GPO, 1997.

U. S. Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics. "Physical Therapists."

Occupational Outlook Handbook: 2004-05 Edition.

Washington, DC: GPO, 2004.

Other Statistical Sources

"2.8. Access to Education: Gambia." World Development Indicators: 1997.

Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1997.

Multi-volume work, list volume number (DLB)

Howard, Ronald W. "Mason Locke Weems." Dictionary of Literary Biography:

American Historians, 1607-1865. Vol. 30. Ed. Clyde N. Wilson. Detroit:

Gale, 1984.

Multi-volume work, list volume number, no author, article title listed first

"Sagan, Carl (Edward) 1964-." Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series.

Vol. 36. Ed. James Lesniak. Detroit: Gale, 1992.

Multi-volume work reproducing periodical article (CLC)

Ryan, Maureen. "Barbara Kingsolver's Lowfat Fiction." Journal of American Culture

Winter 1995: 77-82. Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 130. Ed.

Jeffrey W. Hunter. Detroit: Gale, 2000: 91.

Electronic Print Resources - Online Reference

The citations contain the following elements in the order given.

Author (if available)
Article title
Publication title
Editor of publication
Publication information, if available
Database name
Name of subscribing library
Library location
Date of access
URL of the service (URL list below)

Start with the title if no author is listed. Use the punctuation shown in the examples below.

Note: When citing references from an electronic print resource or Internet source there is a way to turn off the auto-formatting of the URL (in Microsoft Word) so it is not underlined and highlighted in blue. This will make your works cited page appear more consistent. Go to the Tools menu, select AutoCorrect, select the AutoFormat As You Type tab and midway down under Replace as you type deselect (uncheck) Internet and network paths with hyperlinks.

Basic URLs for Citations - LPC Online Reference Informational Databases

Encyclopedia American Online & Grolier Multimedia - <http://go.grolier.com/>
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia &(EBSCOhost) History Reference Center (EBSCOhost) - <http://search.epnet.com/>
Literature Resource Center & Opposing Viewpoints (CLC, DLB, Contemporary Authors, Scribner Writers, Twayne's) - <http://infotrac.galegroup.com/>
LitFinder - <http://www.litfinder.com/>
Merck Index - <http://themerckindex.cambridgesoft.com/>
World Development Indicators - <http://www.worldbank.org/>

Encyclopedia Americana Online

Garrow, David J. "King, Martin Luther, Jr." Encyclopedia Americana Online.

Grolier Online, 2003. LPC Library, Livermore. 23 Aug. 2005 <http://go.grolier.com/>.

DLB. Literature Resource Center - Multi-volume work

Richardson, Robert D. "Ralph Waldo Emerson." Dictionary of Literary Biography: American

Literary Critics and Scholars, 1800-1850. Vol. 59. Ed. John W. Rathburn. Detroit: Gale, 1987.

Dictionary of Literary Biography. Literature Resource Center. LPC Library, Livermore.

11 July 2001 <http://infotrac.galegroup.com/>.

Contemporary Authors Online. Literature Resource Center

"Helen Fielding 1959 -." Contemporary Authors Online. Literature Resource Center.

LPC Library, Livermore. 14 Mar. 2002 <http://infotrac.galegroup.com/>.

History Reference Center. EBSCOhost

"Atlantic Slave Trade." American History and Politics, 1607 - 1849. 2003.

History Reference Center. EBSCOhost. LPC Library, Livermore.

27 July 2004 <http://search.epnet.com/>.

LitFinder

Nash, David. "The Dance." Contemporary American Poets. Ed.

Horace C. Baker. Stratford, 1929. Litfinder. LPC Library,

Livermore. 23 Apr. 2006 <http://www.litfinder.com/>.

Scribner Writers Series Online. Literature Resource Center

Larsen, Erling. "James Agee." American Writers. Vol. 1. 1974. Scribner Writers Series.

Literature Resource Center. LPC Library, Livermore. 4 May 2001

<http://infotrac.galegroup.com/>.

Twayne. Literature Resource Center

Rosenmeier, Rosamond. Anne Bradstreet. New York: G.K. Hall, 1991.

Twayne's United States Author Series Online. Literature Resource Center.

LPC Library, Livermore. 4 May 2001 <http://infotrac.galegroup.com/>.

Use the following links to access the LPC Library short guides to citing specific types of resources in the MLA style.

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