Create a page titled "Works Cited" on a piece of paper or in your work processing software if you are typing your report on a computer.
Use the following format and fill in the information from an encyclopedia and topic in MLA style: Author. The name of the article in quotation marks. The name of the encyclopedia, underlined. Edition. Year.
Use the APA format, if preferred, and fill in the information from your own encyclopedia and topic. The format for citing an encyclopedia in APA format is written like this:
Last name of the author, first initial. Year in brackets. Topic. Name of encyclopedia, italicized. The volume and page number, in brackets. The city published, followed by a colon and the publisher's name.