Place the name of the poem in quotations if you are citing the poem in the text of your paper. For example, you would write: In "The Road Not Taken," the author discusses a choice between two different life paths.
Add parenthesis at the end of the sentence before the period if you are quoting the poem. Type the author's name and the page number in the parenthesis.
Type the last name of the poet followed by a comma and the poet's first name if all the poems in the book are from the same author. Add this information to your works-cited page. Type the name of the book followed by a period. Type the city where the book was published followed by a colon. Type the name of the publisher, add a comma and enter the year the book was published.
Type in your works-cited page the author of the poem with the last name first if you are citing a poem that appeared as part of an anthology. Add a period. Put the poem name in quotation marks and add a period. Type the title of the anthology, the name of the editor and which edition the anthology is. Separate each item with a period. Indent on the next line. Type the city where the anthology was published. Add a colon and type the name of the publisher. Add a comma and type the year. List the page numbers followed by a period.
Type the author's name first if you are citing a poem found online. Put the name of the poem in quotation marks. Add the name of the webpage and follow with a period. Add the author or website foundation's name and add another period. Type the date with the date first, the month and then the year. Indent on the next line and add the url in between the symbols < and >.
Go to an online site, such as Easybib, that helps create bibliographies. Choose from the list of options, such as whether your poem comes from a book, database or online. Type in the key terms you need to place in your bibliography. Click "Cite This." An entry will appear with all of the bibliographical information. Copy and paste this information to your bibliography.