Building an Entry From a Source

In practice

This worked example is constructed for this course. A student reads an article in a library database. The article page shows an author, Maria Delgado; a title, "Rivers in the City"; the journal, Urban Ecology Review; volume twelve, issue three; the date, spring of a recent year; pages forty-five to sixty; and a database name and a stable link. Build the entry in order. First, the author, last name first: Delgado, a comma, Maria, a period. Second, the article title in quotation marks, with a period inside the closing mark. Third, the first container, the journal, in italics, followed by a comma. Fourth, the version and number elements: the volume, then the issue, each abbreviated and followed by a comma. Fifth, the date, followed by a comma. Sixth, the location within the container, the page range after p p, followed by a period. Seventh, because the student read it in a database, the second container, the database name in italics, a comma, and the stable link, ending with a period. In the paper, the student cites a quotation from page fifty-two with the author's last name and the page in parentheses, or with the page alone if the sentence names Delgado. The finished entry goes in the works-cited list, alphabetized under D, with a hanging indent.