Third Grade Bibliographical Format

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, underlined .
3. Copyright date.

   Schaefer, Lola M.  Crayfish.  2002.

For an article from a print encyclopedia:

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

   "Walrus."  The Grolier Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animals.  1994
      
   "Washington, George." The World Book Encyclopedia.  2006.
      
      

 

For an article from a magazine:

1. Name of the author, last name first.
2. Title of the article, in quotation marks.
3. Name of the magazine, underlined, with the date.

    Whitt, Stephen."Moondance."  Spider February 2006.
    
    Anderson, Margaret J. "Mysteries of Inner Space."  Ask January 2006.
      

 

For an online encyclopedia:

1. Name of the author (if found), last name first.
2. The subject you looked up, in quotation marks.
3. Name of the online encyclopedia, underlined.
4. First part of the http address (see the examples), in parentheses.

      
   Berry, Richard."Saturn."  The New Book of Knowledge.
      (http://nbk.grolier.com).  
      
     "Panda."  World Book Online.(http://www.worldbookonline.com)
      
         

For an article from the Internet:

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, underlined.
4. First part of the http address (see the examples), in parentheses.

      
   "About Elephants." Elephant Information Repository.
    (http://elephant.elehost.com).
      
    Arnett, Bill. "Mercury."  The Nine Planets.  
    (http://www.nineplanets.org).   

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