Citing Sources

This is an example of a paper that I wrote for a course I took in grad school on The Crucible.  In the text of the essay you will notice my parenthetical citations (Miller 83)<-- get it?  parentheses.  parenthetical citation.  These are used following all direct quotes and paraphrases that you use in your essay.

The interesting thing about the theme of injustice is that the miscarriage of justice is not an error, nor is it the work of a corrupt judge or judges.  Rather, the injustice that Proctor and his friends face is instead an official position taken by the magistrates.  The language of the trials themselves is in and of themselves unjust.  “There is never any palpable evidence of anything throughout the play, and each individual is required to tell a lie if he wants to save his life. In that sense, language is the demonic force of the play; everything rests on it, and this is true for all characters, on whichever side they stand” (Bonnet).   In Act II where Mary Warren describes the proceedings in the court in Salem, she insists that the testimony she gives is “hard proof, hard as rock the judges said” (Miller 78), when in fact it is mere storytelling, nothing that could ever truly be proven.

Following the essay, on the very last page, I included my Works Cited page.  I've linked to it because it is too difficult to maintain the formatting.

Notice that the articles are alphabetized by author's last name.  Where there is no author (like the first entry), it is organized in alphabetical order according to the first letter of the article.

I suggest that you use the website www.easybib.com.  Enter the websites that you have used into the search function, fill in the blanks as best as you can (if necessary) and it will create a citation for you that looks like this:
"Www.loveisrespect.org: Domestic Violence Awareness Month." Www.loveisrespect.org. Domestic  
          Violence Awareness Month. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Dec. 2012.
Copy and paste it into your Works Cited page, and start the next citation.  It works like a charm!  Make sure to cite A Streetcar Named Desire too.