Bibliography Citations

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Bibliography Citations

• MLA Style

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Book

• Schwartz, Joe. Annals of Joy. Denver McMurty,
  1997.

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Book (one author)
Berlin, Isaiah. Four Essays on Liberty. New
York Oxford UP, 1991.
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Book with two authors (same format for
periodicals)

• Hult, Christine A., and Thomas N.
• Huckin. The New Century
• Handbook. Boston Allyn and
• Bacon, 1999.
• (Note only the first authors name is reversed.)

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Standard Periodical(daily, weekly, monthly, or
bimonthly)
Tripp, Linda. Women Know How to Keep
Secrets. Ladies at Work 16 Jan. 1998
6-19. (Note 1 with periodicals, there is no
period after the name of the periodical. Note 2
the date is written day month year. Months
are shortened to three letters. May, June, and
July are written out.)
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Scholarly Journal (comes out less often than
bi-monthly, i.e., every 3 months, every 6 months,
etc.) (Each issue starts on page 1)

• Smith, Karin Neset. Whales in
• Pacific Northwest Culture and
• Mythology. Northwest
• Folklore 4.1 (1985) 31-42.
• (Note With scholarly journals, we list the
  volume number, the issue number, omit the month,
  and put the year in parentheses.)

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Scholarly Journal (comes out less often than
bi-monthly and has Continuous Pagination in all
issues for the year)

• Kevorkian, Jack. Overpopulation
• and Its Obvious Solutions.
• Geriatrics at Risk 6 (1996) 720-
• 27.
• (Note if all the issues in a year are paginated
  as one document, we list only the volume number
  and the year in parentheses.

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Anthology(A book with an editor and a number or
essays, stories, chapters, etc. by various
authors)

• Benedict, Ruth. Ethics Are Relative.
• Classic Philosophical Questions.
• Ed. James A. Gould. Upper
• Saddle River, NJ Prentice-Hall,
• 1998. 159-66.
• (Note anthologies require that you list the
  author of the specific section you must also
  identify the page numbers of that section.)

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Online Periodical with a Print Source
Mead, Rebecca. How to Be a Writer. The New
Yorker 15 Oct. 2001 147- 54. ProQuest. Dixie
State College Lib. 16 Oct. 2001 proquest.umi.com/. (Note When you use
one of the databases that our library pays a fee
to use, you may shorten the URL.)
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Personal Interview
Caldwell, Dr. Lee. Personal Interview. 21 June
2005.
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E-mail Communication
Clinton, Senator Hilary. E-mail to the author.
30 May 2004.
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Online Periodical ( scholarly journal) with a
print source
Wooten, Patty. Humor an Antidote for Stress.
Holistic Nursing Practice 10.2 (1996) 49-55. 4
Mar. 2005 html. (Note the MLA style recommends that you
break a URL after a slash (/) if the URL wont
fit on one line.)
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Online Citation with a Print Source
Jost, Kenneth. Corporate Crime. CQResearcher
11 Oct. 2002. CQResearcher. Dixie State
College Lib. 12 Oct. 2002 library2.cqpress.com/. (Note CQReasercher is
a great source it is also an unusual source
because the periodical and the database have the
same name.)
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Online SourceA Periodical
Nataf, Zachary. Whatever I Feel . . . . New
Internationalist Apr. 1998. Sirs Knowledge
Source. Dixie State College Lib. 9 Oct. 2001
. (Note this is a
subscription database, so there is a shortened
URL.)
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Dictionary (standard)
Ghazi. Random House Websters College
Dictionary. 1996 ed. (Note most dictionaries
are very simple do not list the page number of
the word you looked up do not list the editor or
the publishing information.)
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Dictionary (Online) -- Wikipedia

• Chonma-ho. Wikipedia. 22 Oct. 2006.
• The Chonma-ho is a North Korean battle tank
  based on the Soviet T-62 medium tank. Chonma
  means flying horse.
• Note Wikipedia has a number of errors, so it is
  good to check another source as well.

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Dictionary (Some specialized dictionaries and
encyclopedias have an author for each entry in
such cases, list the author of that entry.)
MacIntosh, Jack J. Latitudinarianism. The
Oxford Companion to Philosophy. 1995 ed.