Research and Style Manual

Works Cited for Grades 3

1. Follow the punctuation in the examples exactly.
2. Be sure to put the author's last name before the first name, with the two names separated by a comma.
3. If you look up information about a person in an encyclopedia, that person's name should also be written last name first.
4. If you cannot find some information, such as author, just leave it out.

For a book:

1. Author's name, last name first.
2. Title of book, italicized .
3. Copyright date.

   Landau, Elaine.  Sea Horses.  1999.

For an article from a print encyclopedia:

1. The subject you looked up, in quotation marks.
2. Full title of encyclopedia, italicized .
3. Copyright date.

   "Jaguar."  International Wildlife Encyclopedia.  1991
      
   "Washington, George." The World Book Encyclopedia.  2000.
      
      

For an article from an encyclopedia on CD-ROM:

1. The subject you looked up, in quotation marks.
2. Full title of encyclopedia, italicized .
3. Copyright date.
4. CD-ROM.

   "Earthquake."  Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia.  1994. CD-ROM.
      
   "Dog."  First Connections: The Golden Book Encyclopedia. 
    1995.  CD-ROM.
    
   "Tiger."  The San Diego Zoo Presents The Animals!  1994.  CD-ROM.
      

For an encyclopedia from an online service:

1. The subject you looked up, in quotation marks.
2. Full title of encyclopedia, italicized .
3. Date you visited (proper format in the example).
4. Online.

      
   "Panda."  Compton's Living Encyclopedia.  23 Nov.
   1999. Online.  
         

For an article from the World Wide Web:

1. Name of the author, if you can find it, last name first.
2. Title of the article, in quotes.
3. Title of the home page, if available, italicized.
4. Date you visited (see the examples).
5. First part of the http address (see the examples), in brackets.

   Schaller, George B.  "Tiger."World Book Online. 16 Dec. 1999.
    <http://www.worldbookonline.com>.
      
   "Cheetah." The Cyber Zoomobile. 23 Nov. 1998.
    <http://www.primenet.com/>.
      
   "Factoids: Polar Bears."  Environmental News Network.
   26 Jan. 1998. <http://www.enn.com/>.
      
   Arnett, Bill. "The Moon."  The Nine Planets. 21 May 1998. 
   <http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/>.   

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