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WORKS CITED:

INTERNAL
DOCUMENTATION:

Research Databases: (top)

 

EBSCO MAS Ultra:
Soukup, Elise. "West Virginia Princess." Newsweek 25 Sept. 2006: 10

Ebsco MAS Ultra School Edition.  Web. 25 Oct. 2010.

author
(Soukup)

JSTOR:

Golden, Richard M. "American Perspectives on the European Witch
     Hunts." History Teacher 30 (1997): 409-26. JSTOR. Web. 15             
     Apr. 2010.

 

 
author
(Golden)

eLibrary Science:
Frick, Robert. "Preventing Heart Disease." Life Science Weekly 24
     Feb.
2005: 965. eLibrary Science. Web. 20 May 2010.


author
(Frick)

Newsbank:
Peres, Judy. "Couple's Divorce Entangles Frozen Embryos." Chicago

Tribune 7 Aug. 1999, Chicagoland final ed., News sec.: 1. NewsBank. Web. 16 Aug. 2010.

author
(Peres)

CQ Researcher:
Cox, Rachel S. "Ecotourism." CQ Researcher Online 10 Oct. 2006:
     865-
888. Web. 25 Oct. 2010.


author
(Cox)

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center:
 "Gambling on College Sports Should Not Be Banned Nationwide."

Sports and Athletes. Ed. James D. Torr. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2005. Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 10 April 2010.

author
("Gambling")

Career Cruising:
"Actor." Career Cruising. Web. 23 Oct. 2010.


Shortened title
("Actor," Cruising)

Career Information System:
"Actor." Career Information System. Web. 23 Oct.
2010.
  
 

Shortened title
("Actor," CIS)
   
   

Gale and other Literary Sources: (top)

 

 

Citation Guide

(When the original source is a MAGAZINE article)
Wilson, Edmund. "Return of Ernest Hemingway." New Republic

 103 (28 Oct. 1940): 591-592. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism.  Ed. James P. Draper. Vol. 80. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1994. 101-103. Print.

author, page #
(Wilson 101)

(When the original source is from a BOOK)
Lindberg, Gary. "Playing for Real."
The Confidence Man in 
     American Literature
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.   
     231-58. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz 
     and Debra Brown.Vol. 63. Detroit: Gale, 1991. 203-205. Print.
 

author, page #
(Lindberg 203)

Gale "for Students" Series
(When you are using pages written specifically for the book and not a reprinted article of criticism. If you are using a criticism article, use the Gale examples above.)

"Dracula." Novels for Students. Ed. David Galens, et. al. Vol. 18.  
     Detroit: Gale, 2003. 22-50. Print.
 

shortened title,   page #
("Dracula" 22)

Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction/Article written specifically for the book :
Rout, Kathleen. "Gone With The Wind."
Beacham's Encyclopedia of
     Popular Fiction
. Ed. Kirk H. Beetz. Osprey, FL: Beacham  
     Publishing Corp., 1996. 1734-1740. Print.
 

author, page #
(Rout 1734)

   

Website: (top)

 
Basic citation for a freely available Website: 
If a website doesn't list all of this information, just skip what you can't find and move on the next component.

Author last name, author first name. "Title of article."  Title of the 
     Website.
Name of the Sponsoring Organization. Date information
     was posted or updated. Web. Date you viewed the site.

(Author's name or shortened title)

 

 

Mossberg, Walter S.  "First impressions of the New Apple iPad."  All
     Things Digita
l.  The Wall Street Journal, 27 Jan. 2010. Web. 12
     October 2010.

"Abraham Lincoln Biography."  Bio. True Story.  The Biography
     Channel. Web. 12 October 2010.
 (Mossberg)



("Abraham Lincoln")
 

 

   

Print Sources: (top)

 

Book - single author
Romano, Tony. When the World Was Young. New York: Harper         
     Collins, 2007. Print.
 

author, page #
(Romano 26)

Book - two authors (give their names in the same order as on the title page)
Wellek, Gene, and William Walden. Theory of Literature. Chicago:
     Doubleday, 1983. Print.
 

authors, page #
(Wellek and Walden 34)

Book - more than three authors (et. al. = and others)
Carlson, Sander, et al. The English Language. Berkeley: University of      
     California Press, 1993. Print.
 

author, page
(Carlson 233)

Book - editor instead of author
Thompson, Clifford, ed. Current Biography Yearbook
1999. New 
     York: H.W. Wilson, 1999. Print.
 

editor, page
(Thompson 582)

Book - series
Balkin, Karen, ed. Health Care: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego, 
     CA: Greenhaven Press, 2003. Print.
 

editor, page
(Balkin 197)

Multi-volume encyclopedias or sets
(Signed article)
Mayland, Charles J. "Franklin, Benjamin."
Dictionary of American
      Biography
. Vol. 4. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995.
     237-277. Print.
 

author, page #
(Mayland 237)

(Unsigned article)
Travers, Bridget, ed. "Calcium." Gale Encyclopedia of Science.     
     Vol. 1. New York: Gale Research, 1996. 163-169. Print.
 

Introduction, a Preface, a Foreword, or Afterword
Marsalis, Wynton. Foreword. Beyond Category: The Life and Genius  
     of Duke Ellington
. By John Edward Hasse. New York: Simon,
     1993. v-xiii. Print.

 

editor, page #
(Travers 163)

 

 

(Marsalis xi)

Book with chapters written by different authors
(many literature criticisms fall under this category)

Chapter written specifically for the book:
White, Ann Vorisek. "Television Harms Children."
Television:
     Opposing
Viewpoints. Ed. Jamuna Carroll. Detroit: Thomson Gale,
     2006.  71-76. Print.

Chapter reprinted from another source:
Broadhead, Richard H. "New and Old Tales: The Scarlet Letter."
   
     Hawthorne, Melville, and the Novel
. Chicago: University of  
    Chicago Press, 1976. 56-67.  Rpt. in  Nathaniel Hawthorne.            
    Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986.  
    153-155. Print.
 

 

 

 

author, page #
(White 72)

 

(Broadhead 153)

Scholarly Journals, Magazines, and Newspaper Articles

(Scholarly Journals: each issues is continuously paged)
Bose, Ted. "Wilde's Game of Being Earnest." Modern Drama

      (1988): 81-86. Print.

Magazine:
Campo-Flores, Arian. "Hiding Behind the Web." Newsweek 11 Oct.
     2010: 32-34. Print.

Newspaper:
"Four Attacks Kill at Least 11 in Kashmir." Chicago Tribune 23         
     Oct. 2002: sec. 1: 8. Print.
 

 

author, page #
(Bose 82)

 

(Campo-Flores 32)

 

shortened title, page #
("Four" 8)

Pamphlet (cite a pamphlet as you would a book)
Smith, Patricia. Oscar Wilde. New York: Literary Press, 1981. Print.
 

author only
(Smith)

Occupational Guidance
"Newspaper Editor." Occupational Guidance. Vol. VI, Unit 1,
     Minneapolis: Finney Co., 2004. Print.
 

shortened title only
("Newspaper")

   

Other: (top)

 

Film on DVD or Videotape
It's a Wonderful Life. Dir. Frank Capra. Perf. James Stewart and
     Donna Reed. 1946. Republic, 2001. DVD.
 

shortened title
(Wonderful Life)

Television or Radio Program
"The Blessing Way." The X-Files. Fox. WFOX, Chicago, 19 Sept.
     2002. Television.
 

shortened title
("Blessing")

Audio
U2. All That You Can't Leave Behind. Interscope, 2000. CD.
 

performer
(U2)

Interview
Pei, I.M. Personal interview. 22 July 1993.

Larson, Al. Telephone interview. 10 Dec. 2000.

subject
(Pei)

subject
(Larson)