Easy Source Citations:

www.bibme.org or www.citationmachine.net

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Electronic Sources

Basic format Web site:

Author/editor/creator. Web Site Title. Name of organization associated with the site. Copyright date or last update. Web. Access date <URL optional>.

Examples:
Pritzker, Thomas J. An Early Fragment from Central Nepal.
 Ingress Communications. n.d. Web. 8 June 2001
<http://www.ingress.com/~astanart/pritzker/pritzker.html>.
(Note: This is an example of a Web site with no publication date.)

Arts-n-Crafts. Earlychildhood.com. 2000. Web.12 May 2002
<http://www.earlychildhood.com/art.html>.

Basic format Journal or Magazine:

Author. "Article Title." Journal or Magazine Title Volume number. Issue number (Year):
Number of pages/paragraphs or page range (if given). Name of Database. Web. Access date.

Examples:
Heartney, Eleanor. "Contemporary Oracles." Art in America 83.5
(1995): 61. Resource Center Gold. Web. 12 Jan. 2002
<http://web3.infotrac.galegroup.com>.

"Time Was." Discover Dec. 2000: 53. Resource Center Gold. Web.
19 Jan. 2001 <http://web2.infotrac.galegroup.com>.
(Note: This is an example of an online magazine article with no author.)

Encyclopedia Database:

Title of database. Editor of project. (Date) Sponsoring Organization. Web. Access Date.

Example:
World Book Online. Smith, John. (2002). World Book. Web. 3 Oct 2002.

Print Sources

Book by a single author:

Author's name (last name first). Title of Book. Place of publication: Publisher, year. Print.

Example:
Tannen, Deborah. The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to
Dialogue. New York: Random, 1998. Print.

Book by two or three authors:

First author's name (last name first), additional author's name(s) (first name first).
Title of Book. Place of publication: Publisher, year. Print.

Example:
Short, Kathy Gnagey, and Lois Bridges Bird. Literature as a Way of Knowing. York, ME: Stenhouse, 1997. Print. 

Encyclopedia or Reference Book:

Author (last name first). "Title of Article". Title of book. Edition. Copyright date. Print.

Example:
"Mandarin". The Encyclopedia Americana. 15th ed. 1994. Print