This section of the Basic Tutorial contains information on how to format the reference list, how to format reference list entries for periodicals, books and chapters in edited books, and information about the differences between reference lists and bibliographies.

Formatting the List of References
At the end of every paper is a list of references containing detailed publication information about every work cited in the paper. The following formatting features apply to all reference lists:

• Reference list starts on a separate page following the last page of the paper
• The heading on the page is the word References
• References are listed in alphabetical order
• Each entry in the list is formatted with a hanging indent of ½-inch

  

Formatting Entries for Scholarly Periodical Articles

Periodicals are published on a regular basis throughout a year, and each issue contains a collection of articles by different authors. Most academic research is published in scholarly journals that are issued four times a year. Scholarly journals are the basic type of periodical that appears in a reference list. (Formatting for other types of periodicals and information on how to determine the type of periodical is provided in the Advanced Basic and Advanced tutorials.)

Typical reference entries for SCHOLARLY PERIODICAL ARTICLES look like this:

Learn how each specific part of a reference list entry for an article in a scholarly periodical is formatted.