General Forms of a Citation

Print Book with Two Authors: Author's Last Name, First Name, and Author's First Name      and Last Name. Title. Place of Publication: Publisher,      Year of Publication.            Example:           Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and                Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn, 2000. Part of a Book: Last Name, First Name. "Title of Chapter." Title of Collection.      Ed. Editor's Name(s). Place of Publication: Year of      Publication. Pages.           Example:           Harris, Muriel. "Talk to Me: Engaging Reluctant Writers." A                Tutor's Guide: Helping Writers One to One. Ed. Ben                Rafoth. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2000. 24-34. Article in a Scholarly Journal: Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Title of      Journal Volume. Issue (Year): pages.           Example:           Wilkins, Wilma. "Collaborative Interventions." Children           and Schools 25.4 (2003): 195. Article in a Magazine, Newspaper: Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Title of      Source Day Month Year: pages.           Example:           Poniewozik, James. "TV Makes a Too-Close Call." Time 20                Nov. 2000: 70-71 Electronic: Web Site - Entire: Author's Last Name, First Name. Name of Page. Date of      Posting/Revision. Name of Institution / Organization      Affiliated with the Site. Date of Access <electronic      address>.           Example:           White, Sally. Purdue Online Writing Lab. 2003. Purdue                University. 10 Feb. 2003 <http://owl.english.purdue.                edu>. Article on a Web Site: Author's Last Name, First Name. "Article Title." Name of      Page. Date of Posting/ Revision. Name of Institution /      Organization Affiliated with the Site. Date of Access      <electronic address>.           Example:           White, Sally. "Using MLA Format." Purdue Online Writing                Lab. 2003. Purdue University. 10 Feb 2003 <http://owl.                english.purdue.edu>. Library Subscription Service (Proquest, Lexis-Nexis, EB- SCO): Begin by citing the source as if you had the original version (e.g. if scholarly journal, then use scholarly journal format) Then add the following tagline:      Database Name. Subscription Service Name. Name of      Library, location of library. Date retrieved  <electronic      address for retrieval>.      Scholarly Journal Example:           James, Nancy. "New York Politics." Journal of Political                Agenda. 9.3 (2002): 34-38. Research Library Complete.                Proquest. Alvernia University Library, Reading. 18                September 2002 <http://proquest.umi.com>. Citing Books & Other Nonperiodicals Book - One Author: Smith, James. Classroom Management. New Jersey:      Prentice Hall, 1990. Book - Two or Three Authors: Lest, Bradley, and Robert Manley. Psychology. Dubuque,      Iowa: Brown, 1995. Book - Four or More Authors: You can either name all of the authors in both the in-text citation and works cited page or you can name only the first author and use et.al to represent the rest. Smith, Jason, Will Kline, Phillip Weston, and John Goodwin.      Revoluntionary War. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1988. OR Smith, Jason, et al. Revolutionary War. New Jersey: Prentice      Hall, 1988. Book - Written by a Group: Consumer Reports. NewCar Preview for 2004. New York:      Consumer Union, 2003. Book - Edition After the First: Tolkien, J.R.R. The Fellowship of the Ring. 2nd ed. Boston:      Houghton Mifflin, 1988. Book, Electronic: Treat this as you would a printed book, but add on the name of the group that offers the electronic version, date of their publication, location, date of retrieval, and electronic address. Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams: An      Autobiography. Boston: Houghton, 1918. The American      Studies Group at UVA Hypertext. 1996. The University of      Virginia. 6 Mar. 1998 <http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/      hadams/hahome.html>. Book- - With No Author: Kodak Guide to 35mm Photography. 6th ed. Rochester:      Eastman, 1989. Book - Chapter in a Book: Shalit, Wendy. "Male Character." A Return to Modesty:      Discovering Lost Virtue. New York: Free, 1999. 144-60. Book - From a Series: Author(s). Title of Book. Title of Series_Series Number.      Place: Publisher, Date.           Example:           Minkova, Donka, and Robert Stockwell. Studies                in the History of the English Language. Topics in                English Linguistics 39. Berlin: Mouton, 2002. Pamphlet: Treat a pamphlet as you would a book (with or without an author). Renior Lithographs. New York: Dover, 1994. Government Publication: Issuing Government as author. Name of Agency. Title of      the Publication. Place: Publisher, Date.      Example:           United States. Dept. of Labor. Child Care: A                Workforce Issue. Washington: GPO, 1988. Citing Articles & Other Publications in Periodicals: Article, Print - Scholarly Journal: Waddill, Deborah, and Michael Marquardt. "Adult Learning      Orientations and Action Learning." Human Resource      Development Review 2.4 (2003): 406-25. Article, Electronic - Scholarly Journal: Katz, Seth. "Tenure and Technology: New Values, New      Guidelines." Kairos. 2.1 (1997). 20 July 1997 <http://      english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.1/coverweb/bridge.html>. Article, Print - Monthly Magazine: Bond, Constance. "If You Can't Bear to Part with It, Open a      New Museum." Smithsonian Apr. 1995: 90-97. Article, Electronic - Monthly Magazine: Shafer, Jack. "The New Walter Cronkite." Slate 18 Oct.1996.      12 July 1997 <http://slate.msn.com/Assessment/96-10-18/      Assessment.asp>. Article - Newspaper: Rotry, Richard. "The Unpatriotic Academy." New York Times      13 Feb. 1994: E15. Article, Electronic - Newspaper: Pressley, Sue Ann. "Louisana's Courtesy Call." The      Washington Post Online 5 Mar. 2000. 6 Mar 2000 <http://      www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11177-      2000Mar4.html>.   Citing Other Sources:     Movies: American Graffiti. Dir. George Lucas. Perf. Richard Dreyfuss      and Ronald Howard. Unviersal, 1973. Television Programs: "The Birth Mother." Dir. Kevin Bright. Perf. Jennifer Aniston,      Courteney Cox Arquette, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc,      Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer. Friends NBC,      New York. 8 Jan. 2004.

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