In the following examples, book titles and the names of journals, magazines, and newspapers are italicized. You could also underline them as well. For more complete information check a writing handbook such as Lunsford and Connors, The Everyday Writer or consult the MLA Handbook.
A Book with a Single Author
Lowenthal, David. The Past is a Foreign Country. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
An Anthology or Compilation
Karp, Ivan and Steven D. Lavine. Eds. Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1991.
A Book by Two or More Authors
Eggins, Suzanne, and Diane Slade. Analysing Casual Conversation. London: Cassell, 1997.
A Book by a Corporate Author
National Research Council. China and Global Change: Opportunities for Collaboration. Washington: National Academy, 1992.
A Work in an Anthology
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Ozymandias." The Norton Anthology of British Literature. 8th ed. 2 vols. Ed. M. H. Abrams, et. al. New York: Norton, 1998.
An Article in a Scholarly Journal with Continuous Pagination
McKenna, Bernard. "How Engineers Write: An Empirical Study of Engineering Report Writing." Applied Linguistics 18 (1997): 189-211.
An Article in a Scholarly Journal which Pages Each Issue Separately
Hallin, Daniel C. "Sound Bite News: Television Coverage of Elections, 1968-1988." Journal of Communication 42.2 (1992): 5-24.
An Article in a Newspaper
Manning, Anita. "Curriculum Battles from Left and Right." USA Today 2 Mar. 1994: 5D.
An Article in a Magazine
Amelar, Sarah. "Restoration on 42nd Street." Architecture Mar. 1998: 146-50.
A Film or Video Recording
Citizen Kane. Dir. Orson Welles. Perf. Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton. RKO, 1941.
An Online Scholarly Project, Information Database, or Professional or Personal Site
The Wordsworth Variorum Archive. Ed. James M. Garrett. Mar. 1999. 18 April 2000 <http://www.oxy.edu/~jgarrett/wva/>
A Work from an Online Service
Fox, Justin. "What in the World Happened to Economics?" Fortune 15 Mar. 1999: 90-102. Lexis-Nexis. Occidental Library. 2 April 2001.
For online works, you include the database service (Lexis-Nexis in the above example), the location of access (Occidental Library above), and the date of access (2 April 2001 above).