Preparing a Bibliography

A bibliography is single-spaced with one blank line between entries. The first line of each entry is flush left, and any additional lines are indented five spaces (see examples below). The different items included in a bibliography are separated by periods, not commas, as in a note. In general, the information included in a bibliographic entry is the same as in footnotes and endnotes and occurs in the same order, but is organized somewhat differently.

• Full name of author(s) or editor(s) as it appears on the title page, alphabetized according to surname.
• Full title of the book or article, including subtitle.
• Full name of editor(s), translator(s), or compiler(s), if any.
• Edition, if other than the first.
• Number of volumes.
• Facts of publication: city (and state or province, if published in the U.S. or Canada and the city is not well known), publisher, and year of publication.
• Volume number (if any).
• Page number(s), if the work cited is part of a larger whole. For example, to cite a chapter of a book or an article from a journal, the beginning and ending pages of the section should be included in the reference. Otherwise, page numbers are not given in bibliographies.

3.1.1. Author’s name

A bibliography is arranged alphabetically according to the author’s or editor’s surnamefollowed by a period to separate it from the title of the book or article. If there are two or more authors, only the name of the first author is presented last name first. The other names are given in their normal order.

Alexander, Patrick H., John F. Kutsko, James D. Ernest, Shirley A. Decker-Lucke

and David L. Peterson, eds.

Blomberg, Craig L.

If several works by the same author are listed in a bibliography, only the first entry should contain the full name. Subsequent entries are represented by an eight-space line (made by striking the underscore key eight times) ending in a period. The entries may be listed according to publishing date or alphabetically.

Norris, Kathleen. The Cloister Walk. New York: Riverhead Books, 1996.

________. Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.