Bibliography

If you plan to write a report, list all your sources on a Bibliography page. The list of sources is sometimes called "Works Cited."

Use one of these formats*

*If any item is not known, just skip it and go on to the next one.

For Books

Author's Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. City: Publishing company, date.

Articles

Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Magazine. Publication date: volume: page number.

Websites

Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Publication date: page. Site owner. Date of visit. <Website Address>

Spacedog: Copying information without giving credit to the author is called PLAGIARISM. And it's the same as stealing!

A Sample Bibliography:

Caidin, Martin. The Astronauts. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1961.

Marko, Katherine M. Animals in Orbit: Monkeynauts and Other Pioneers in Space. New York: Franklin Watts, 1991.

"U.S. Widens Its Lead in Space Race." U.S. News and World Reports. 13 Feb 1961: 46.

"The Right Stuff". The Washington Post. 21 Jan 1983, A16.

"Laika, the first dog in space." Starchild, a service of NASA. 4 Apr 2002. <http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/space_level2/laika.html>

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