BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION GUIDE
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Print Materials
Book by a single author:
Brodie, Fawn M. Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History. New York: Norton, 1974. Print.
Book by two or more authors:
Bailey, Thomas A. and David M. Kennedy. The American Spirit: United States History as Seen by Contemporaries. 2 vols. Lexington, Mass: D.C. Heath, 1987. Print.
Blum, John Morton et al. The National Experience: A History of the United States. 7th ed. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, 1989. Print.
Book collected by an editor or editors:
Fee, Elizabeth, and Daniel M. Fox, eds. AIDS: The Burdens of History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Print.
Rosser, Sue V., ed. Teaching Science and Health From a Feminist Perspective. New York: Pergamon, 198. Print.
Book with no author identified
If no author or editor can be identified, then a book is alphabetized by the first word of its title, excluding definite or indefinite articles.
The Poster Book of World War I. New York: Military Press, 1987. Print.
Works in several volumes or parts:
when citing the whole multi-volume work:
de Tocqueville, Alexis. Democracy in America. 2 vols. New York: Random House, 1945. Print.
when citing a specific volume of a multi-volume work:
Hofstadter, Richard, ed. Great Issues in American History. 2 vols. New York: Random House, 1958. Vol. 2. Print.
Collections, anthologies, readers:
Otis, James. "The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved." Tracts of the American Revolution: 1763-1776. Ed. Merrill Jensen. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967. Print.
Encyclopedias and other reference books:
Lesko, Leonard H. "Ancient Egypt." World Book Encyclopedia. Chicago: World Book, Inc. 2007. Print.
"The Late Middle Ages." Middle Ages Almanac. Ed. Judson Knight. New York: UXL, 2001. Print.
"Tournaments and Jousts." Medieval World. Danbury, CT: Grolier, 2001. Print.
Introduction, preface, foreword or afterword:
Parker, Gail. Introduction. Eighty Years and More. By Elizabeth Cady Stanton. New York: Schocken, 1971. Print.
Periodicals: (Note that here you cite page numbers for the whole article.)
newspaper:
Stark, Andrew. "Gore and Gingrich --Men in a Mirror." New York Times, 5 February 1995, sect. 4: 17. Print.
magazine:
Beschloss, Michael R. "Annals of the Presidency: Seven Ways to Win Friends." New Yorker. 30 January 1995: 43-51. Print.
Electronic Resources
Website
Author (if known). "Title of Page." Title of Complete Work, if page is part of a group of documents. Name of the organization sponsoring the Website, Date of update or revision (use n.d. if unknown). Medium. Date of access.
Hadingham, Evan. "Secrets of Norse Ships." Nova Online: The Vikings. PBS. 25 November 2000. Web. 4 Jan. 2010.
Document originally from a book, reprinted on a website
Seaver, James E. "The War for Independence Through Seneca Eyes: Mary Jemison Views the Revolution, 1775–79." A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison. Canadaigua, N.Y.: J.D. Bemis, 1824, 71–84. History Matters. American Social History Productions, Inc., 31 Mar. 2006. Web. 1 Nov. 2006.
iCONN or Gale Databases (online)
Student Edition
Gramling, C. "Energy-saving space engines: black holes can be green." Science News. 29 Apr. 2006: 261. Student Edition. Web. 4 Jan. 2010.
Discovering Collection
"Peru." Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. Ed. Timothy L. Gail and Susan Bevan Gall. Online Ed. Detroit: Gale, 2009. Discovering Collection. Web. 4 Jan. 2010.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Benavides, O. Hugo. "Peru." Countries and Their Cultures. Ed. Melvin Ember and Carol Ember. Vol. 3. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2001. 1755-1767. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 4 Jan. 2010.
Biography Resource Center
"Jonas Salk ." Scientists: Their Lives and Works, Vols. 1-7. Online Edition. U*X*L, 2006. Biography Resource Center. Web. 4 Jan. 2010.
Infotrac Custom Newspapers
"Icy Words on Global Warming. (Editorial Desk) (Editorial)." New York Times 30 Mar. 1992. Infotrac Custom Newspapers. Web. 4 Jan. 2010.
American History Online or Modern World History Online.
Purcell, L. Edward, and Sarah J. Purcell."Battle of Fort Necessity." Encyclopedia of Battles in North America, 1517 to 1916. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2000. Web. American History Online. 4 Jan. 2010.
World Book Online
Riley-Smith, Jonathan. "Crusades." World Book Advanced. World Book, 2010. Web. 4 Jan. 2010.
Issues and Controversies in American History
Kauffman, Jill. "Voting Rights Act of 1965." Issues & Controversies in American History. Facts on File News Services. 14 Dec. 2009. Web. 4 Jan. 2010.
Sender (Sender's E-mail address). "Subject of Message." E-mail to recipient (Recipient's E-mail address). Date of message.
Day, Martha (MDAY@sage.uvm.edu). "Review of film -- Bad Lieutenant." E-mail to Xia Li (XLI@moose.uvm.edu). 30 July 1995.
CD-ROMs:
Name of the author. "Title of document." Title of publication. Date of publication: page numbers. Title of the database. Medium (such as CD- ROM). Name of the company that created the database, electronic publication date.
"Skeletal system." A.D.A.M. The Inside Story. CD-ROM. A.D.A.M. Software, Inc., 1996.
Reich, Bernard. "Yitzhak Rabin." The World Book Multimedia Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. World Book, Inc., 1995.
Personal Interview
Name of interviewee. Personal interview. Date of interview.
Valentine, Lynne. Personal interview. 16 April 2004.