Open your completed paper in a word-processing program. Once open, scroll to the last page of your document and create a new page.
Center your text. If you are creating an APA-style bibliography, title the page "References." If you are writing an MLA-style paper, title the page "Works Cited." Do not add quotation marks around the text.
Skip two lines and align your text left. You do not want to keep your text centered as this will not follow MLA or APA citation formats.
Create a hanging indent by going to "Paragraph" in the word processor's toolbar and opening the menu. Under "Indentation," move the cursor over to "Special" and select "Hanging" from the options. This will indent the second line of your bibliography entries so they will match MLA or APA style.
Place all your sources in alphabetical order by last name before you begin writing your bibliography. All authors, corporate authors and sources without authors follow alphabetical order.
Write the author's name. The last name should be listed first, followed by a comma, then the author's first name. Add a period at the end.
Write the title of the book or website in italics. Prior to 2009, you had the option of putting book titles in italics or underlining the text, but the new format calls for italics only. If your source is an academic article, magazine or newspaper article, a review or a page from a website, use quotation marks instead of italics. The first letter of every word -- except the articles "the," "a," "an" and "and" -- should be capitalized. Add a period at the end. If your title is in quotation marks, the period goes inside the quotes.
Add the name of the periodical, magazine, or website after the quoted titled next. Be sure to add the full title so others reading your bibliography can easily locate the text you used. Do not add a period, yet. Remove the italics for the next portion of this step. If your source is an academic article, put the number of the journal next, a period, then the issue number, followed by the year in parentheses, a colon, then the page numbers. Add a period. If your source is from a magazine or a newspaper, write the date, month and year, followed by a colon and the page number. Add a period.
Write the place of publication followed by a colon after the italicized title for a book source. After the colon, add the book's publisher, a comma and the year the book was published. Add a period.
Write the publication medium for periodicals, magazines and web addresses. For print texts, write "Print" followed by a period. For e-texts, add the full web address inside the left and right facing triangles. Add a period outside the last triangle.
Begin by placing all your sources in alphabetical order by last name.
Write the author's last name to begin your bibliography entry. Add a comma, followed by the first initial of the author's first name, followed by a period, and the first initial of the author's middle name if provided. Add a period.
Add the year of publication after the author's name in parentheses. Add a period after the last parenthesis. If your article does not have an author, the year would come after the article's title.
Write the title of the book in italics after the year. If the title is a periodical or an article from a website, use plain text. With APA citation, only capitalize the first letter of the first word in the title; also capitalize the first letter of the first word after a colon. Once you write the title, add a period.
Italicize your text and add the name of the journal or website from which you found the article or page. For this step, you will capitalize all the words in the title except for "a," "and" and "the" and other similar articles. Add a comma after the periodical title and write the periodical's volume number. Remove the italics and place the periodical's issue number in parentheses. Add another comma and write the page numbers. For websites, add a period after the title. Write "Retrieved from" and add the full URL of the site where you retrieved your information. Add a period.
Write the location after the title if your source is from a book. The location is the city, state or country the book was published. Add a colon after the location and write the name of the publisher.
Repeat the previous steps for each source until your bibliography guide is complete.