Personal Interview

Full name of the person being interviewed by you in last name, first name format.
The words Personal interview.
Full date of the interview.
All punctuation is EXACTLY as the example below.

Polamalu, Troy. Personal interview. 29 March 2016.

Basic Format (book)

Provide the author’s name in last name, first name format.
The title is italicized (highlight the title and click CTRL and I).
The City of Publication is found on the title page, if there are multiple cities choose the city closest to your location.
The Publisher and year of publication are either on the title page or the verso (back of the title page).
The symbol © is next to the copyright date which is normally the year of publication.
The Medium of Publication for a book, newspaper, or magazine will be the word Print.
All punctuation is EXACTLY as the example below.
Always indent the second and third lines.
The basic form for a book citation is:

Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher,

Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.

Dunn, Mary R. A Look at Mars. New York: Rosen Publishing

Group, Inc, 2008. Print.

An Image (Including a Painting, Sculpture, or Photograph)

Provide the artist's name in last name, first name format.
- A second author is written firstname lastname. (same as you write your name)
The work of art italicized (highlight the title and click CTRL and I)
The date of creation. When was the image, painting, sculpture, photograph made.
The institution (museum, university, church...)
The city where the work is housed.
The name of the Website in italics (highlight the title and click CTRL and I)
The medium of publication (web, print, ...)
The date of access. (date Month. Year. you found the image)
All punctuation is EXACTLY as the example below.
Always indent the second and third lines.
The basic form for an image citation is:

Lastname, Firstname. Title of Image. Year of Creation.
Institution, City of Institution. Name of
Website. Medium of Publication. Today's Date.
Ottoman Empire. Saber with Scabbard. 19th century.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Metropolitan

Museum of Art. Web. 22 April 2015.

An Article from an Online Database (or Other Electronic Subscription Service)

Cite articles from online databases just as you would print sources.
Provide the author’s name in last name, first name format.
- A second author is written firstname lastname. (same as you write your name)
The article title is in quotation marks (highlight the database title and click SHIFT and the apostrophe ' ).
The Publisher. (if available)
Page numbers. (if available)
- if the number is higher than 100 the first page is written 156 but the second number is only 57
The title of the database italicized (highlight the title and click CTRL and I).
The medium of publication (web, print, email...)
The date of access. (date Month. Year. you found the article)
All punctuation is EXACTLY as the example below.
Always indent the second and third lines.
The basic form for a database citation is:

Junge, Wolfgang, and Nathan Nelson. “Nature's Rotary Electromotors.” Science 29 Apr. 2005: 642-44. Science Online. Web. 5 Mar. 2009.

Works Cited

The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at

Purdue and Purdue U, 2008. Web. 23 Apr. 2015.

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