Note: See the “Using Sources” pages for details on citation formatting.
BIBLIOGRAPHY (no annotations)
Start your bibliography on a new page at the bottom of your document. If you’re using MLA format, center the title Works Cited at the top with no bold, italics, quotation marks, or underlining. If you’re using APA format, use the title References instead.
Type each bibliographic entry without adding returns or tabs. Word will automatically format your entries correctly if you follow these instructions.
Select the entire bibliography. Change the paragraph formatting for your bibliography page to “hanging indent” by following these steps: go to the “Format” menu, drag down to “Paragraph,” and then choose “Hanging” from the special indentation menu. This will format your entries with the first line flush to the left and the rest of the lines indented, so that you don’t have to do this with manual tabs. Like this:
Note: This entry is in MLA format. Note that you must include information about the database you used to find the article in the entry.
The reason for formatting a bibliography this way is so that readers can scan the page and easily find authors you referred to in the paper.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Follow the same steps above to format the bibliography page and each bibliographic entry, but don’t apply that formatting to the actual annotations.
SAMPLE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: FIRST PAGE
