12Jun

How To Write A Reference Page For An Essay

How To List Reference In A Paper

After you are done with your paper, write Reference page at the end of your paper. It should include all the sources you cited within your text. Provide the full citation information for your sources in a Reference page to enable reader’s access your sources on their own. Reference your sources accurately in scholarly and academic work as this will give your work credibility and integrity.

Ways of formatting the Reference page:

  • At the top of the page title the page References. Using the same font size as the rest of the paper Center the word "References” without underlining, italicizing. All the work cited in each first item of entry should be alphabetized. Always start with authors last or the title of the work when you have no authors name.
  • When you are working with two or more works by the same author, write all the entries in alphabetical o-order as you start with date of publication, from the earliest one.
  • If you are citing two or more works written by different authors who has same last name, write their first initials in alphabetic order of each author.
  • When citing two sources by the same author and were published in the same year, in your in-text references, alphabetize the entries by the title and refer to them as (Author, A) and (Author, A).
  • If a work has six or more authors, list the first six and abbreviate the others.
  • Capitalized the titles of all the work using "sentence capitalization" form. only the first word should be capitalized, though in some cases proper nouns, should be capitalized. Use initials to write the first names of the authors
  • Align first line of each entry to the left margin and the following lines should be indented five spaces. Each entry should be double-spaced and no additional spaces should be placed between entries.
  • Use double quotation marks when writing titles of smaller works and in-text references in page entry.
  • Italicize the titles of larger works for example entire book, a film or magazine.
  • Include all the Page numbers in the full citation if the cited work was part of a larger body of work
  • In summary, full reference of a work usually includes the author, the publication date, the title, and publication information. Also when citing online source citations, include the date you accessed the work.