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BOOKS
Book with one
author:
1.
Author (Last name,
first name)
2.
Title (Underlined)
3.
Place of publication
4.
Publisher
5.
Date of publication
Example: Catton, Bruce. America Goes to War. Hanover : Wesleyan
University, 1986.
Book with two
or three authors:
1.
First author (Last name,
first name)
2.
Other author(s) (In
the normal order)
3.
Title (Underlined)
4.
Place of publication
5.
Publisher
6.
Date of publication
Example 1: Smith, Brandon, and John Petersen. The
Civil War Years.
San Francisco : Hamilton and Louis, 1999.
Example 2: Smith, Brandon, John Petersen, and
Eric Johnson. Civil
War Arms. San
Francisco
: Hamilton and
Louis,
1999.
Book with more
than three authors:
If there are more than
three authors, you may list just the first author given on the title
page, and then replace the others with the phrase et al, which
means “and others” in Latin. Another choice is to give
all the names in the same order in which they appear on the title page.
1.
First author (Last
name, first name)
2.
et al (To
replace other authors)
3.
Title (Underlined)
4.
Place of publication
5.
Publisher
6.
Date of publication
Example 1: Smith, Brandon , et al. The Civil War in History.
San
Francisco: Hamilton and Louis,
1999.
Example 2: Smith, Brandon, John Petersen, Eric Johnson,
and John
Wyatt. The Civil War in History. San Francisco :
Hamilton and Louis, 1999.
Book but with
an editor, translator, or compiler on the title page: If the book does not have an author
given, list the name(s) of the editor, translator, or compiler as
directed and then place a comma after the last name. Next use the
listed abbreviation for the editor, translator, or compiler followed by
the period.
1.
Editor, translator, or
compiler (Last name, first name)
2.
Abbreviation for editor,
translator, or compiler.
3.
Title (Underlined)
4.
Place of publication
5.
Publisher
6.
Date of publication
Example: Tanner, John,
ed. The History of the Liberty Bell . Boston :
Scholastic,
1987.
Book with two
or three editors, translators, compilers on the title page: List the name(s) as directed and then
place a comma after the last name. Next use the listed abbreviation
for the editor(s), translator(s), or compiler(s) followed by the period.
1. First
editor, translator, or compiler (Last name, first name)
2. Second
and third editors, translators, or compilers
3.
Abbreviation for editors (eds.), translators (trans.), or
compilers
(comps).
4.
Title (Underlined)
5. Place of
publication
6.
Publisher
7. Date of publication
Example: Tanner, John, Blaze
Houston, and Sue Hill, eds. The
History of the White House. Boston : Scholastic,
2004.
Books with
more than three editors, translators, compilers on the title page: Use the same form as a book with more
than three authors except be sure to add the abbreviation after the last
editor or after the et al.
Book with a
Corporate Author: Sometimes, a committee, company, or
association will write a book. If an individual member is not
listed as an author, then replace the author with the corporate name.
ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND ANTHOLOGIES
Encyclopedia
Article with Author Given:
1.
Author of article (Last
name, first name)
2.
Title of article (In
quotation marks)
3.
Name of encyclopedia
(Underlined)
4.
Date
Example: Boritt, Gabor
S. “Civil War.” The World Book Encyclopedia.
2002.
Encyclopedia
Article with No Author Given:
1.
Title of article (In
quotation marks)
2.
Name of encyclopedia
(Underlined)
3.
Date
Example: “American
Civil War.” Compton ’s Encyclopedia and Fact
Index. 2002.
Material in an
Anthology: If you are using a short story, a poem, a selection,
or an article from a collection, use the following list.
1.
Author of the short story,
poem, selection, etc. (Last name, first name)
2.
Title of the short story,
poem, selection, etc. (In quotation marks)
3.
Title of book
(Underlined)
4.
Name(s) of compiler or
editor preceded by ed. or comp.
5.
Place of publication
6.
Publisher
7.
Date of publication
8.
Page numbers
Example: Norworth,
Jack. “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” American
Sports Poems. Comps. R. R. Knudson and May
Swenson. New
York
: Orchard Books,
31.
PERIODICALS
Newspaper
article with author given:
1.
Author’s name
(Last name, first name)
2.
Title of article (In
quotation marks)
3.
Name of newspaper
(Underlined)
4.
Date (Day Month
Year—no punctuation)
5.
Edition, if given
6.
Page number and section of
article (If the article is continued from the first page
on which it appears, use the “+” designation to indicate.
Example: Green, Nikki. “Librarian is anxious
to fill shelves.” The
Times
3 Oct. 2004 : A1+.)
Unsigned
newspaper article:
1.
Title of article (In
quotation marks)
2.
Name of newspaper
(Underlined)
3.
Date (Day Month
Year—no punctuation)
4.
Edition, if given
5.
Page number and section of
article (If the article is continued from the first page on which
it appears, use the “+” designation to indicate.)
Example: “Program helps link volunteers,
needs.” The Times 3 Oct.
2004: 5D.
Signed
magazine article:
1.
Author’s name (Last
name, first name)
2.
If more than one author,
use the form under BOOKS.
3.
Title of article (In
quotation marks)
4.
Date of magazine (Day
Month Year—no punctuation)
5.
Page number (If pages
are consecutive, use the first and last page number. If the article
is not on consecutive pages, use the first page followed with a
“+.”)
Example: Nash, J. Madeleine.
“Into the Eye of IVAN.” Time 27 Sept.
2004: 38-41.
Unsigned
magazine article:
If the article is not signed,
just begin with the title of the article and continue as above.
INTERNET
Website on the
Internet:
1.
Author’s
name—if given at the website (Last name, first name)
2.
Title of website if given
(Underlined), or if not given, a description such as Personal home page
(Not underlined, italicized, quoted, or otherwise punctuated).
3.
The name of any
institution, organization, or group responsible for the site.
4.
The date the website was
accessed (Day Month Year—no punctuation)
5.
URL or website address in
angle brackets.
Example: Lowry, Lois. Lois Lowry.
4 Oct. 2004 .
<http://www.loislowry.com>.
Magazine or
Encyclopedia Article from Galileo Database:
1.
Author’s name (Last
name, first name)
2.
Title of article (In
quotation marks)
3.
Title of
magazine/periodical (Underlined)
4.
Date of magazine/periodical
5.
Page numbers of article
(see periodical page numbering)
6.
Database name
7.
GALILEO
8.
Date of access
9.
URL or website address in
angle brackets
Example: Hatton, Robert W. “Don’t have
time to vote? Read what
Private Jim Smith went through to exercise his
democratic
right.” America ’s Civil War Nov. 2004: 64+. EBSCOhost. GALILEO
3 Oct. 2004 . <http://www.galileo.usg.edu>.
Article from
Online Reference Book such as an Encyclopedia:
1.
Name of author of article
(Last name, first name)
2.
Title of article (In
quotation marks)
3.
Title of
service/encyclopedia (Underlined)
4.
Version of encyclopedia (if
given)
5.
Date of encyclopedia
6.
Date accessed
7.
URL or website address in
angle brackets
Example: Guelzo, Allen C. “Civil War,
American.” World Book Online
Reference
Center , 2004. 4
Oct. 2004 . <http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Article?id=ar117060>.
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