NON-PRINT RESOURCES
Many of the materials included here require a description. This description is basically the type of medium. If you are citing a video, the description is videocassette, if you are citing a DVD, the description is DVD, etc.
Videocassettes (DVDs, Videodiscs, Filmstrips, Slide Programs)
The title, description, distributor and year are the most important parts. You can include the director, performer, etc. if they are important. If the program was re-released, you can include both dates.
Title. Description. Distributor, Year.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Videocassette. Twentieth Century Fox,
1975.
Spoken-word recordings (Books on tape) – description = Audiocassette
Author’s last name, First. Title. Original Publication Date. Read
by (reader’s
-----Name). Audiocassette. Producer, Date.
McCourt, Frank. Angela’s Ashes. 1996. Read by Frank McCourt.
-----Audiocassette. Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Music recording – no description needed
Artist’s last name, First. Album Title. Manufacturer, Date.
Marley, Bob. Burnin’. Island, 1973.
Song on an album – no description needed
Artist’s last name, First. “Title of the Song.” Title
of the Album.
-----Manufacturer, Date.
Marley, Bob. “Get Up, Stand Up.” Burnin’. Island, 1973.