Books Book Chapters Print

One Author

Chapter Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Chapter." Title of Book. Ed. Editor's First Name Last Name.
Publication Location: Publisher, Year. Page range. Medium of Publication.

Citation Examples:

Caws, Mary Ann. "These Photographing Women: The Scandal of Genius." Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and
Surrealism. Ed. Patricia Allmer. New York: Prestel, 2009. 28-35. Print.

Farrell, Susan E. "Art, Domesticity and Vonnegut's Women." New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut. Ed. David
Simmons. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 91-111. Print.

Grosman, David. "Writing in the Dark." Burn This Book. Ed. Toni Morrison. New York: Harper, 2009. 22-32. Print.

Maclay, Colin M. “Protecting Privacy and Expression Online: Can the Global Network Initiative Embrace the
Character of the Net?” Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace. Ed.
Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski and Jonathan Zittrain. Cambridge: MIT P, 2010. 87-108.
Print.

MacLean, Lynne. "Getting the Wrong Gatekeeper." When Research Goes Off the Rails: Why It Happens and What
You Can Do About It. Ed. David L. Streiner and Souraya Sidani. New York: Guilford, 2010. 74-80. Print.

Notes:

 Editions need to be noted after the book title, e. g., 2nd ed.

 Simplify publisher's names, e. g., U of Michigan P instead of University of Michigan Press or McGraw
instead of McGraw-Hill, Inc.

Books Whole Book Online Online Version of a print book Website

One Author

Author’s Last Name, First Name. Title of the Book. Original Publication Location: Publisher, Year. Title of Database
or Web site. Medium of Publication. Access Date - Day Month Year.

Citation Examples:

Green, Horace. The Log of a Noncombatant. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915. Google Books. Web. 19 Feb. 2010.

Ingwersen, Peter. Information Retrieval Interaction. Los Angeles, CA: Taylor Graham, 1992. Royal School of Library
and Information Science, Denmark. Web. 19 Jan. 2011.

King, Stephen. Umney's Last Case. N.p.: Penguin, 1993. The Online Books Page. Web. 19 Jan. 2011.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. The Woman's Bible. N.p.: n.p., 1898. Project Gutenberg. Web. 19 Jan. 2011.

Notes:

 Editions need to be noted after the book title, e. g., 2nd ed.

 Simplify publisher's names, e. g., U of Michigan P instead of University of Michigan Press or McGraw

Online and WWW Sources Book Chapters Website

One Author

Chapter Author’s Last Name, First Name. “Title of Chapter.” Title of the Book. Original Publication Location:
Publisher, Year. Title of Database. Medium of Publication. Access Date - Day Month Year.

Citation Examples:

Boyer, Gregory L. "Cyanobacterial Toxins in New York and the Lower Great Lakes Ecosystems."International
Symposium on Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms. New York: Springer, 2008. U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency. Web. 19 Jan. 2011.

Brennan, James W. “The Numbers of Arithmetic.” Understanding Algebra. Boise, ID: n.p., 2005. free-ed-net.com.
Web. 19 Jan. 2011.

Davis, Lydia. “The Fish.” The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.Google
Books. Web. 19 Jan. 2011.

McKenzie, Jamie. “Beyond Cut-and-Paste: Engaging Students in Wrestling With Questions of Import.”Beyond Cut-
and-Paste: Engaging Students in Making Good New Ideas. n.p.: FNO Press, 2008.From Now On. Web. 19
Jan. 2011.

Moore, Michael. “The Sad and Sordid Whereabouts of bin Cheney and bin Bush.” Stupid White Men. New York:
Regan Books, 2001. MichaelMoore.com. Web. 19 Jan. 2011.

Notes:

 Editions need to be noted after the book title, e. g., 2nd ed.

 Simplify publisher's names, e. g., U of Michigan P instead of University of Michigan Press or McGraw
instead of McGraw-Hill, Inc.

 If there is no place of publication, or no publisher or sponsor, use n.p. If there is no date, use n.d.

Print Dissertations/Thesis
Author’s Last Name, First Name. Title of Thesis. Diss. or MA thesis. Name of Institution, Year. Publication Place:
Publisher. Medium of Publication.

Citation Examples:

Özkan, Ersan. The Politics and Economics of Software Intellectual Property Rights: Interacting Policies of the
United States, United Kingdom, Romania, Turkey, and International Organizations. Diss. University at
Albany, 2009. Ann Arbor: UMI, 2009. Print.

Haynes, Stephanie E. The Effect of Background Music on the Mathematics Test Anxiety of College Algebra
Students. Diss. West Virginia University, 2003. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia U. Print.

Notes:

 If you are citing an unpublished dissertation or thesis, cite as above, but place the title in quotes, not in
italics. Also exclude the publisher's information (e.g. Ann Arbor: UMI, 2009).

Published conference proceedings

Editor’s Last Name, First Name, 2nd Editor's First Name Last Name, and 3rd Editor's First Name Last Name,
eds. Title of Conference. Place of Publication: Publisher, Date. Medium of Publication.

Citation Examples:

Audun, Josang, Torleiv Maseng, and Svein Johan Knapskig, eds. Identity and Privacy in the Internet Age: 14th
Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems, NordSec 2009. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Berlin, 2009.
Print.

Peinke, Joachim, Martin Oberlack, and Alessandro Talamelli, eds. Progress in Turbulence III: Proceedings of the iTi
Conference in Turbulence 2008. New York: Springer, 2010. Print.

Notes:

 Cite the published proceedings of a conference as you would any book.

 Simplify publisher's names, e. g., U of Michigan P instead of University of Michigan Press or McGraw
instead of McGraw-Hill, Inc.

Published conference presentations

Presenter ’s Last Name, First Name, and 2nd Presenter's First Name Last Name. “Title of Presentation.”Title of
Conference Proceedings. Ed. 1st Editor's First Name Last Name, 2nd Editor's First Name Last Name, and
3rd Editor's First Name Last Name. Place of Publication: Publisher, Date. Medium of Publication.

Citation Examples:

Muntermann, Jan, and Heiko Robnagel. “On the Effectiveness of Privacy Breach Disclosure Legislation in Europe:
Empirical Evidence from the US Stock Market.” Identity and Privacy in the Internet Age: 14th Nordic
Conference on Secure IT Systems, NordSec 2009. Ed. Josang Audun, Torleiv Masent, and Svein Johan
Knapskog. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Berlin, 2009. Print.

Notes:

 Cite the published presentations of a conference as you would any book.

 Simplify publisher's names, e. g., U of Michigan P instead of University of Michigan Press or McGraw
instead of McGraw-Hill, Inc.

DVD version

Title of Film. Dir. Director's First Name Last Name. Perf. Actor's First Name Last Name, 2nd Actor's First Name Last
Name, and 3rd Actor's First Name Last Name. Studio, Year. Medium of Publication.

Citation Examples:

Elf. Dir. Jon Favreau. Perf. Will Ferrell, James Caan, Zooey Deschanel, Bob Newhart, Ed Asner, Mary
Steenburgen, and Daniel Tay. New Line, 2003. DVD.

Surrogates. Dir. Jonathan Mostow. Perf. Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, Boris Kodjoe, James
Cromwell, and Ving Rhames. Touchstone, 2010. DVD.

The Merry Wives of Windsor. Dir. David Jones. Perf. Ben Kingsley, Richard Griffiths, Judy Davis, and Prunella
Scales. 1982. Ambrose Video, 2000. DVD.

The Vagina Monologues. Dir. Eve Ensler. Perf. Eve Ensler. HBO, 2002. DVD.

William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Dir. Baz Luhrmann. Perf. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes.
Twentieth Century Fox, 1997. DVD.

Notes:

 You may put the original film date after the performers' names if relevant.

 Simplify film studio names, e. g., Paramount instead of Paramount Pictures or Miramax instead of
Miramax Films.
 Online and WWW Sources Journals Scholarly Journal Articles DOI
One author

Author’s Last Name, First Name. “Title of Article.” Title of Journal Volume Number.Issue Number (Year): page
numbers. Name of Database. Medium of Publication. Access Date - Day Month Year

Citation Examples:

Campbell, Heidi A. “Religious Authority and the Blogosphere.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 15.2
(2010): 251-76. Wiley Online Library. Web. 22 Jan. 2011.

Colletta, Lisa. "Political Satire and Postmodern Irony in the Age of Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart."Journal of
Popular Culture 42.5 (2009): 856-74. Academic Search Complete. Web. 19 Jan. 2011.

Torchilin, Vladimir P. “Targeted Pharmaceutical Nanocarriers for Cancer Therapy and Imaging.” AAPS Journal 9.2
(2007): E128-47. Web. 22 Jan. 2011.

Notes:

 If you retrieved the article from the journal's website or a webpage and not from a database, then omit
the title of the database.

 Shorten longer month names (Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr.) but spell out the shorter months (May, June, July).

Online and WWW Sources Journals Scholarly Journal Articles Web

One author

Author’s Last Name, First Name. “Title of Article.” Title of Journal Volume Number.Issue Number (Year): page
numbers. Medium of Publication. Access Date - Day Month Year.

Citation Examples:

Clark, Dylan. “The Raw and the Rotten: Punk Cuisine.” Ethnology 43.1 (2004): 19-31. Web. 19 Jan. 2011.

Force, William Ryan. "Consumption Styles and the Fluid Complexity of Punk Authenticity." Symbolic
Interaction 32.4 (2009): 289-309. Web. 19 Jan. 2011.

Guthman, Julie. "Can't Stomach It: How Michael Pollan et al. Made Me Want to Eat Cheetos."Gastronomica 7.3
(2007): 75-79. Web. 19 Jan. 2011.

Hampton, Tracy. "Hospitals and Clinics Go Green for Health of Patients and Environment." Journal of the American
Medical Association 298.14 (2007): 1625-29. Web. 19 Jan. 2011.
Houston, Kerr. "Athletic Iconography in Spike Lee's Early Feature Films." African American Review 38.4 (2004):
637-49. Web. 19 Jan. 2011.

Whitmire, Kenton H. "Molecular Donuts and Donut Holes." Science 327.5961 (2010): 38-39. Web. 19 Jan. 2011.

Notes:

 Use this format if you found the article on the Web, but not through a database such as EBSCO
Academic Search Complete or JSTOR.

 If you have 2 or 3 authors, list them all. If more than 3 authors, you may list all the authors or use et al.
after the first author's name.

 Shorten longer month names (Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr.) but spell out the shorter months (May, June, July).

Online and WWW Sources Journals Scholarly Journal

Articles Database
One author

Author’s Last Name, First Name. “Title of Article.” Title of Periodical Volume.Issue (Year): page range.Database
Title. Web. Date of Access - Day Month Year.

Citation Examples:

Hampton, Tracy. "Hospitals and Clinics Go Green for Health of Patients and Environment." Journal of the American
Medical Association 298.14 (2007): 1625-29. Academic Search Complete. Web. 19 Jan. 2011.

Houston, Kerr. "Athletic Iconography in Spike Lee's Early Feature Films." African American Review 38.4 (2004):
637-49. Academic Search Complete. Web. 19 Jan. 2011.

Notes:

 Shorten longer month names (Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr.) but spell out the shorter months (May, June, July).