Example from Professor: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPY SAMPLE ENTRYType of Source: Article in an Online Scholarly JournalMLA CitationReynolds, Morgan. “Incarceration Reduces Crime.” American Journal of Economics 85.5(2004): 52-61. Academic Search Premier. http://www.ebscohost.com/smc/s2309sjjs0sf9. Accessed 10 May 2006.Summary: Morgan Reynolds, director of the Criminal justice Center at the National Center for Policy analysis and an economics professor at Texas A & M University, argues that incarceration has a significant impact on reducing crime. He supports his position with extensive evidence—including expert testimony from leading research scholars and criminologists, statistical data and comparative studies—that suggests criminals are deterred by certain and severe punishment. His argument is based largely on the assumption that criminals operate from an “incentive-based perspective” in which they rationally weigh possible outcomes before committing crimes and that incarceration will influence their decisions, thus lowering crime rates.Contribution: I can use Reynolds’ concession—“the most effective crime reducer is the intact family”—in my refutation to assert that implementing educational and social programs to support and strengthen family ties may be more effective than reducing crime through incarceration.Organize sources alphabetically—in the same order that they would be presented on a Works Cited page.

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