List of References
// January 14th, 2010 // No Comments » // Essay writing format
A list of references gathers together the sources you’ve used, with enough bibliographic information that the reader can retrace your steps. The list comes at the end of the paper, after any endnotes. The title of the list is centered at the top of a new page, continuing the paper’s pagination. Entries are set off with a hanging indent: after the first line, subsequent lines of each entry are indented a half-inch (word processors automate this task). Don’t put blank lines between entries.
CMS The usual title is Bibliography, though other titles (e.g., Works Cited or References) are permitted. Capitalize all significant words in the titles of works listed.
MLA The usual title is Works Cited. Capitalize all significant words in titles.
APA The usual title is References. Capitalize only the first word of each work’s title, the first word after a colon, and names and acronyms.
