Create a works-cited list entry for the following information. Be careful! Remember, your capitalization, spacing, and punctuation must be exact.
You quoted and paraphrased material from Henry David Thoreau's essay, “Civil Disobedience”, which appears on pages 245-261 in a collection of essays on American government called Classics of Liberty: American History edited by Sarah Wagoner. It was published in 2011 by the Philadelphian Press.
Thoreau, Henry David. "Civil Disobedience." Classics of Liberty: American History, edited by Sarah Wagoner, Philadelphian Press, 2011, pp. 245-261.
To create a works-cited list entry for the information provided, follow the steps below:
1. Start with the author's last name followed by a comma and then the first name: Thoreau, Henry David.
2. Enclose the title of the essay in quotation marks: "Civil Disobedience".
3. Provide the title of the collection of essays in italics: Classics of Liberty: American History.
4. Include the name of the editor after "edited by": edited by Sarah Wagoner.
5. Specify the page range that Thoreau's essay appears in: pages 245-261.
6. State the publication year followed by a comma: 2011,
7. Include the name of the publisher: Philadelphian Press.
Putting it all together, the works-cited list entry would look like this:
Thoreau, Henry David. "Civil Disobedience". Classics of Liberty: American History, edited by Sarah Wagoner, Philadelphian Press, 2011, pp. 245-261.
To create a works-cited list entry for the given information, we need to follow the guidelines of the citation style being used, such as MLA or APA. Let's assume we are using the MLA style:
Thoreau, Henry David. "Civil Disobedience." Classics of Liberty: American History, edited by Sarah Wagoner, Philadelphian Press, 2011, pp. 245-261.
In the above entry, we format the author's name as Last name, First name. The title of the essay, "Civil Disobedience," is enclosed in quotation marks. Then we include the title of the collection, Classics of Liberty: American History, followed by the editor's name, Sarah Wagoner. The publisher, Philadelphian Press, is given, along with the year of publication, 2011. Lastly, we mention the specific pages in the collection where Thoreau's essay appears, which is 245-261.