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Journal Articles

The basic order for journals looks like this:
Author. "Article Title." Journal Title volume number.issue number (year): page numbers. Medium of publication.

For journals found online, you should include the date you accessed it. 

Journal Articles

Print: Mahmud, Sadeqi-zadeh. "Mul 'Wine' in Classical Persian Poetry." Iran & The Caucasus 13.1 (2009): 131-133. Print.

Electronic: Catherine Anderson, Red Coats and Black Shields: Race and Masculinity in British Representations of the Anglo-Zulu War. Critical Survey 20.3 (2008): 6-28. Web.

Newspaper Articles

Print: Alan Walburg. "City Seeks a New Energy Solution." Chicago Tribune 9 Jan. 2002: A1. Print.

Electronic: Alfred Frankenstein. "EMPEROR NORTON RULES AGAIN." San Francisco Chronicle 20 Jan. 2008: N14. Web.

Magazine Articles

Alexander Strom. "Snowy Owls Face Extinction." Time 11 April 2007: 35-46. Print.

Books

The basic order for books is this:
Lastname, Firstname. Title in italics. Location: Publisher, year. Medium of Publication.

Book, one author

Mann, Charles C. 1491: New revelations of the Americas before Columbus. New York, NY: Knopf, 2005. Print.

Book, between two and seven authors

Sukiennik, Diane, William Bendat and Lisa Raufman. The career fitness program: Exercising your options. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2010. Print.

Book, editor(s) but no author(s)

Scott, Myrtle Gladys and Sadie Grimmet eds. Current issues in child development. Washington DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children, 1974. Print.

Book with author and editor(s)

William Shakespeare. Life of Henry the 8th. Ed. John M. Berdan Tucker Brooke.  New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1925. Print.

Chapter in an edited book

Robert Berner. American Myth: Old, new, yet untold. Native American perspectives on literature and history. Ed. A. R. Velie. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. 63-76. Print.

e-Book

Matt Cartmill. A view to a death in the morning: Hunting and nature through history. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. Web. 4 Aug. 2011. Web.

Websites

The basic format for a website looks like this:
Author, editor, or compiler.  Title of page. Version Number. Institution or Organization affilitated with the site. Date of creation. Medium. Date of access.

A special consideration with websites is lack of information. Not all websites list an author, and sometimes figuring out a date for a website can be difficult. If you truly cannot find a piece of information it is alright to leave it out of your reference.

One last note about author names; the author's screen name or psueodonym is an acceptable substitute for a real name in the case of internet sources.

Website

Briant, Pierre and Phillipe Berti. Musée Achéménide. Collége de France. 2006. Web. 22 Aug. 2011.

Blog Post

Silver, Nate. "Debt Deal Could Be a Job-Killer for Incumbents." FiveThirtyEight: Nate Silver's Political Calculus. New York Times. 5 Aug. 2011. Web. 22 Aug. 2011.

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