General Footnote Format Instructions

The footnote page is located at the end of your paper before your bibliography page.

1. Arrange your footnotes numerically as they have been indicated throughout your paper.
2.The first line of each footnote is indented approximately FIVE spaces from the LEFT margin with the note number slightly raised above the line; the second and any succeeding lines begin at the LEFT margin.
3. A footnote for print materials has four main parts, with a period only at the end of the footnote.

     1Author’s Name in normal order followed by a comma, The Title underlined or italicized followed by no punctuation (Place of publication: Publisher, Date of publication in parentheses) the page reference followed by a period.

Book Footnote Examples
One Author:
            1Charles Adamson, The Great Masters at Work (New York: Dutton Publishers, 1993)12-14.

The following are examples of footnote format for Computer Materials.
(Note: In all of the following example footnotes, the date used as “date of visit to the site” is 20 February 2002.)

Online Encyclopedias

            1Author’s Name (if given) in normal order followed by a comma, “Article Title in quotes with a comma,” Encyclopedia Name Online underlined or italicized with comma, vers. number or date with comma, Database source with comma, Day Month Year of your visit with no punctuation <Full http address of site in angle brackets> with period.

             9William A. Check, “Leprosy,” Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Vers. 2002, Grolier, Inc., 20 February 2002 <//go.Grolier.com/>.

WWW Sites (World Wide Web)

When footnoting sources located on the World Wide Web that are not LFHS Library Reference Subscription Database sources, the footnote format will differ depending on the source. Some sites may be professional web sites and will include information not available in personal web sites. If in doubt, please consult with your librarian or teacher.

                 1Author’s name (if given) in normal order followed by a comma, “Article Title within the web site in quotes with a comma,” Name of Site underlined or italicized with comma, Producer of the site (if given) with comma, Day Month Year  of your visit with no punctuation <Full http address of site in angle brackets> with period.

 No author:

                12”Gaea,” Greek Mythology.com, 20 February 2002 <//www.greekmythology.com/>.

Bibliographies (Works Cited) MLA Style

General Rules
• The first line of each entry must begin at the left margin.
• All additional lines of an entry are not to be indented
• Single space within and double space between entries.
• List entries in alphabetical order by the first word, with the exception of a, an and the. If an author is given, the author’s last name will be the first word.
• Put a period and two spaces between the author(s) (when given) and the title.
• Put a colon and two spaces between the city where the book is published and the publisher.
• Put a comma and two spaces between the publisher and the date published.

Bibliography Notes: Printed Sources

Include all the necessary information about the sources you used so that you, or anyone else would be able to trace the information sources.
Author(s) (last name, first name) Article title (underlined) Selection title (in quotations)
• (if from an anthology) • (if from an article in a reference book)
• (if a title of an article in a magazine, journal or newspaper)
Publisher Place and date of publication Editor(s) Government
• (if a govenrnment publication) Agency • (if a government publication)

Book Format
Give the author(s) name, if known. Underline the book title. Include the editor, if any, the city of publication, the publisher, the copyright date, and chapter pages, if from an anthology.

Examples     One author
Allen, Thomas. Vanishing Wildlife of North America. Washington D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1974.

WWW Sites (World Wide Web)(Available via Lynx, Netscape, Other Web Browsers)
To cite files available for viewing and/or downloading via the World Wide Web, give the author’s name (if known), the full title of the work in quotation marks, the title of the complete work in italics, the full http address, and the date of the visit.

Example:
Burka, Lauren P. “A Hypertext History of Multi-User Dimensions.” MUD History.
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lpb/mud-history.html (5 Dec. 1994).

Interviews (Published or Recorded)Name the person interviewed. State that it is an interview. Underline the publication or recording title, if any. Include the name of the interviewer, if available. Give the name of the director, producer, or distributor. Give the issue date and the article page numbers or recording length.

Examples
Wolfe, Tom. Interview. “The Wrong Stuff. “ American Architecture. Videocassette. Dir. Tom Bettag. Carousel Films.
Duke, David. Interview. “Swing To the Right.” Time 27 Nov. 1991, 24-26.

Interviews (In Person)
Name the person interviewed. State if it is a personal interview, or a telephone interview. Then give the date of the interview.

Examples
Nguyen, My. Personal interview. 24 Nov. 1991.
Rodriguez, Miguel. Telephone interview. 8 March 1991.