General Format for Books
AuthorLastName, AuthorFirstname. Title. Publisher, Year.
Basic Book
McCorker, Frank. Storymaking and Mythtelling: Comic Literary and Film Images. Oxbridge, 1992.
Two Authors
Druin, Allison, and Solomon, Cynthia. Designing Multimedia Environments for Children. J. Wiley & Sons, 1996.
Article or chapter in an edited book or anthology
Yorbach, Erich. "Odysseus Wonderful." Peripatesis: The Representation of Fantasy and Adventure in Western Literature. Edited by Polly Feemis. Syracuse University Press, 1943. pp. 3-23.
Electronic Book
Coffey, Frank. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Elvis. Alpha Books, 1997. eBooks on EBSCOhost.11 May 2000.
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General Format for Lecture Notes
Lecturer's name. "Title of lecture." Meeting. Name of sponsoring organization. Location of lecture, date.
**If you don't know the title of the lecture, or the lecture doesn't have a title, use the title Lecture (without the quotation marks).
Examples:
Litfin, Karen. "Introduction to Political Economy." Political Science 203. University of Washington. Seattle, 16 October 2000.
Collins, Kathleen. Lecture. Sociology 300. University of Washington. Seattle, 16 October 2014.
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General Format
AuthorLastName, AuthorFirstName. "Article Title." Journal Title, Version, Number, Publication Date, Page Numbers.
Journal article, two authors
L'Ambrosch, Zampoun and Teodolinda Roncaglia. "From Marco Polo to James Joyce: Coping with New Cultures." Acculturation in Literature, vol. 45, no. 2, 1990, pp. 156-172.
Journal article from an online database
Bustin, Richard. “The Living City: Thirdspace and the Contemporary Geography Curriculum.” Geography, vol. 96, no. 2, 1 July 2011, pp. 60–68. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41320337
Newspaper Article from an Online Database
Biskupic, Joan. “In Shaping of Internet Law, First Amendment Is Winning.” The Washington Post, 12 Sept. 1999, p. A2. ProQuest Newsstand, search.proquest.com/docview/1729603029?accountid=14784.
Newspaper Article from Web or Print Source
Friskics-Warren, Bill. "The Latest Nonconformist from Nashville West." New York Times. 7 May 2000.
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General Format
AuthorLastName, AuthorFirstName. “Title of Article or Individual Page.” Title of website, Name of publisher, Date of publication, URL or DOI.
Web page with Author
Peace, Richard. “A Promising Study Reveals New Hope for an HIV Cure.” Huffington Post, 11 Nov. 2016, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hiv-study-vaccine-immune-system_us_5823c0bde4b0e80b02cec738
Webpage with no Author
"New Media @ the Center." The Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. U of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center, 2009. http://www.writing.wisc.edu/newMedia@theCenter.html
Entire Website
National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, http://www.weather.gov/
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