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After you have written your reference page, you'll need to revise it to ensure the formatting is correct. Two basic formatting considerations are as follows: Double-space your reference page just as you double-spaced the rest of your paper. Use hanging indention. Hanging indentation is when the first line of each reference is all the way over to the left, while any subsequent lines are indented. In the following examples, "Georgina Roberts" is the author, and "Eating Pie for Dinner" is the title of the book. The publisher is Great Books for Eating, located in Waco, Texas. The date of publication is 2002. "Print" is the medium of publication. MLA: Roberts, Georgina. Eating Pie for Dinner. Waco: Great Books for Eating, 2002. Print. APA: Roberts, G. (2002). Eating pie for dinner. Waco, Texas: Great Books for Eating. Chicago: Roberts, Georgina. Eating Pie for Dinner. Waco, Texas: Great Books for Eating, 2002. ASA: Roberts, Georgina. 2002. Eating Pie for Dinner. Waco, TX: Great Books for Eating. Note that the two styles used most often in the sciences, APA and ASA, both place higher value on the date, pushing it closer to the beginning of the reference. Chicago and MLA are used more often in the humanities, so the date is not quite as important in those styles. In the following examples, "Joy Thompson" is the author, and "Pie for Life" is the name of the article, which was published in the journal "Bakers Anonymous." The volume and issue number are 8 and 2, respectively. It was published in 2005, and the page numbers for the article are 35-43. The medium of publication is "web." The digital object identifier (DOI) is 102342343. It was accessed on the February 2, 2007. MLA: Thompson, Joy. "Pie for Life." Bakers Anonymous 8.2 (2005): 35-43. Web. 2 Feb. 2007. APA: Thompson, J. (2005). Pie for life. Bakers Anonymous, 8(2), 35-43. doi:102342343 Chicago: Thompson, Joy. "Pie for Life." Bakers Anonymous 8, no. 2 (2005): 35-43. Accessed February 2, 2007. Doi: 102342343. ASA: Thompson, Joy. 2005. "Pie for Life." Bakers Anonymous 8 (2):35-43. If you are curious about how to make more complicated references in each style, Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL) is a good resource for figuring out style guidelines. It provides examples of each style, as well as information on how to cite different types of sources. If you want to go to the original sources, check out The Chicago Manual of Style, The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, or American Sociological Association (ASA) Style Guide.
Use the correct spacing and indentation. Learn how to reference books according to the appropriate style guide. Learn how to reference journal articles according to the appropriate style guide. Use other resources to learn how to format more complicated sources.