Follow the correct format
Consult a writing handbook or your teacher's guidelines for the general format of your report. The discipline within which you are reporting determines the style. No matter which style you use, you will need to indicate in the body of your paper where you got each fact or idea; you will also need a list at the end of the paper of all the sources of information presented in your report.

Here are your options:

The Modern Language Association (MLA) Style

  • used for courses in English, foreign languages, film, and literature

Follow the format of the examples exactly as given.

The American Psychological Association (APA) Style

  • used for courses in the Natural Sciences and Social Sciences, such as Anthropology, Economics, Psychology, Sociology

Modify the format of the examples, so that immediately after the author's name you give the date of the original publication--or the date of your access if the source may have changed. You will not repeat the date at the end, as it is given in the examples.

The American Chemical Society (ACS) Style

  • used for courses in the Physical Sciences, such as Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics

Follow the format of the examples exactly as given, but give the date you viewed the source in boldface.

The Classic Footnote (or Endnote) Style

  • used for a general audience, art, communications, dance, history, journalism, music, political science, theater, and cross- disciplinary courses

Follow the format of the examples exactly as given.