As the final step in your research process, you will be creating a Works Cited page to include with your report. Sometimes called a bibliography, this page lists the resources you read to find information for your project. Because you have already created reference notecards, you are well on your way to creating a Works Cited page!

You will be writing down your resources as you did for your notecards with one small change: for the book you read, we will write down author's last name first, place a comma, then write the author's first name and close with a period. Let's go through this step by step:

1. Before you begin, we want to think about the alphabet and how to put your resources into ABC order. Each of you has reference notecard for a Britannica School article (B for Britannica):

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and a World Book Student article (W for World):

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Now, find the last name of the author of the book you used. What letter does their last name begin with? The author of the book I used is Heinrich (H):

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Let's put these entries in ABC order. I would list the article from Britannica School, then the book by Heinrichs, then the article from World Book. What order would you use?

2. Use the title "Works Cited" at the top of your page.

3. Write down your resources in ABC order. Mine looks like this:

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Notice that the World Book entry takes up two lines. If that happens for you, be sure to indent the second line as I am showing you with the green arrow above.

OK, let's get started on a draft of your own Works Cited page!