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Books
Entries are listed by author name (or, for entire edited collections, editor names). Author
names are written last name first; middle names or middle initials follow the first name:
Burke, Kenneth
Levy, David M.
No author or editor
Alphabetize works with no known author by their title; use a shortened version of the title
in the parenthetical citations in your paper. In this case, Boring Postcards USA has no
known author:
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Last name, First name. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.
Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin Books, 1987.
After the first listing of the author's name, use three hyphens and a period instead of the
Palmer, William J. The Films of the Eighties: A Social History. Carbondale: Southern Illinois
UP, 1993.
---. Dickens and New Historicism. New York: St. Martin's, 1997.
When an author or collection editor appears both as the sole author of a text and as the
Heller, Steven and Karen Pomeroy. Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design.
First author name is written last name first; subsequent author names are written first
Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston:
Allyn, 2000.
If there are more than three authors, you may list only the first author followed by the
phrase et al. (the abbreviation for the Latin phrase "and others"; no period after "et") in
place of the other authors' names, or you may list all the authors in the order in which
Wysocki, Anne Frances, et al. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding
or
Wysocki, Anne Frances, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Cynthia L. Selfe, and Geoffrey Sirc.
Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of
Corporate author
List by editor or editors, followed by a comma and "ed." or, for mulitple editors, "eds."
Hill, Charles A. and Marguerite Helmers, eds. Defining Visual Rhetorics. Mahwah, NJ:
Peterson, Nancy J., ed. Toni Morrison: Critical and Theoretical Approaches. Baltimore:
Last name, First name. "Title of Essay." Title of Collection. Ed. Editor's Name(s). Place of
Examples:
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.
Swanson, Gunnar. "Graphic Design Education as a Liberal Art: Design and Knowledge in the
University and The 'Real World.'" The Education of a Graphic Designer. Ed. Steven
Cross-referencing: If you cite more than one essay from the same edited collection, you
should cross-reference within your works cited list in order to avoid writing out the
publishing information for each separate essay. To do so, include a separate entry for the
entire collection listed by the editor's name. For individual essays from that collection,
simply list the author's name, the title of the essay, the editor's last name, and the page
L'Eplattenier, Barbara. "Finding Ourselves in the Past: An Argument for Historical Work on
Peeples, Tim. "'Seeing' the WPA With/Through Postmodern Mapping." Rose and Weiser
153-167.
Rose, Shirley K, and Irwin Weiser, eds. The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher.
Multivolume work
When citing only one volume of a multivolume work, include the volume number after
1980.
When citing more than one volume of a multivolume work, cite the total number of
1980.
When citing multivolume works in your text, always include the volume number
Hunt, Tim. "The Misreading of Kerouac." Review of Contemporary Fiction 3.2 (1983): 29-33.
Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. C. Riley. Vol. 61. Detroit: Gale, 1990. 308-
10.
Cahan, Abraham. The Rise of David Levinsky. 1917. New York: The Modern Library, 2001.
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Translated article
Cite as you would any other book, and add "Trans." followed by the
translator's/translators' name(s):
Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason.
When citing an introduction, a preface, a forward, or an afterword, write the name of the
authors and then give the name of the part being cited, which should not be italicized,
If the writer of the piece is different from the author of the complete work, then write the
full name of the author after the word "By." For example:
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Periodicals
Shefter, Martin. "Institutional Conflict over Presidential Appointments: The Case of Clarence
Ginsberg, Benjamin, and Martin Shefter. "Ethics Probes as Political Weapons." Journal of
Actual example:
Devi's Bashai Tudu." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 15.1 (1996): 41-50.
If the journal uses continuous pagination throughout a particular volume, only volume
and year are needed, e.g. Modern Fiction Studies 40 (1998): 251-81. If each issue of the
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journal begins on page 1, however, you must also provide the issue number following the
Basic format:
When writing the date, list day before month; use a three-letter abbreviation of the month
(e.g., Jan., Mar., Aug.). If there is more than one edition available for that date (as in an
early and late edition of a newspaper), identify the edition following the date (e.g., 17
Poniewozik, James. "TV Makes a Too-Close Call." Time 20 Nov. 2000: 70-71.
Trembacki, Paul. "Brees Hopes to Win Heisman for Team." Purdue Exponent 5 Dec. 2000:
20.
"Study Ties Self-Delusion to Successful Marriages." New York Times 2 Jan. 1998, late ed.:
A11.
Wingfield, Nick. "Unraveling the Mysteries Inside Web Shoppers Minds." Wall Street
Electronic Sources
Basic format:
with the site (sometimes found in copyright statements). Date you accessed the site
<electronic address>.
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The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. 26 Aug. 2005. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and
Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. 28 Nov. 2003. Purdue University. 10
Fox, Justin. "Who Wants to Be an Internet Billionaire?" Fortune 8 Nov. 1999: 40- .
ABI/INFORM Global. ProQuest Direct. Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY. 15 Nov.
1999 <http://proquest.umi.com/pdqweb>.
In-Text Citation
Short quotation:
Conjoining Friedmann’s conclusion that the sabras have lost connection to past traditions
with Philip Roth’s 1961 response that “I cannot find a true and honest place in the history
of believers that begins with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob on the basis of the heroism of
these believers or their humiliation and anguish” (222), Guttman records the loss of
Long quotation:
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West, Miller, and Salinger are, of course, nominally Jews, but they are in no
important sense Jewish writers, nor does their work deal significantly with the
process of assimilation and the resultant crisis of identity, (…) a central [theme]
to the major works of most of the major Jewish writers in America. (13)
This explanation of his selective process and especially of the omission of certain Jewish
within the Kramer-identified category of critics for whom it is not enough to be of Jewish
descent in order to be a Jewish writer but, instead, theme is the defining criterion. Then,
the statement implies that assimilation and the crisis of identity represent persistent
themes of Jewish American literature and a means of explaining the excellence of certain
writers.
Footnotes / Endnotes
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Washington Press, 1999). In it, he brings forth an impressive number of cultural and
historical texts in order to explore such topics as the image of the shtetl, education and
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the heder, Russian Jewish life in Odessa, Holocaust’s influence of the writing of Eastern
2The mitzvot are commandments to be obeyed by a pious Jew dealing with regulation of
everyday practices, see Irving Howe, World of Our Fathers (New York: Touchstone
Or
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1.Steven J. Zipperstein’s book is entitled Imagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity. Samuel and
Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999). In it, he brings
forth an impressive number of cultural and historical texts in order to explore such topics as the image of
the shtetl, education and the heder, Russian Jewish life in Odessa, Holocaust’s influence of the writing of
2The mitzvot are commandments to be obeyed by a pious Jew dealing with regulation of everyday
practices, see Irving Howe, World of Our Fathers (New York: Touchstone Editions, 1976) p. 11.
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Works Cited
Eds. Amritjit Singh, Joseph T. Jr. and Robert E. Hogan. Boston: Northeastern
Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Avery, Evelyn. ed. The Magic Worlds of Bernard Malamud. Albany: State University of
Batker, Carol. “Literary Reformers: Crossing Class and Ethnic Boundaries in Jewish
Brogan, Kathleen. “Imagining the Past in Cynthia Ozick’s The Shawl.” Cultural
Budick Miller, Emily. “The Holocaust in the Jewish American Literary Imagination.”
212-230.