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BOOKS I REFERENCE BOOKS I MAGAZINES I
CULTUREGRAMS, PHAMPLETS, VIDEO, INTERVIEW I
COMPUTER RESOURCES

 

BOOKS

BOOK - ONE AUTHOR

    Shaw, Arnold. Black Popular Music in America. New York:

           Harcourt Brace Books, 1986.

BOOK - TWO OR THREE AUTHORS

      Billings, Jill M., and Estelle P. Resnik. Women in Cross-Cultural

            Transitions. Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappa

            Eudcational Foundation, 1994.

BOOK - FOUR OR MORE AUTHORS

      Marine, April, et al. Internet: Getting Started. Englewood Cliffs,

            NJ: PTR Prentice Hall, 1994.

BOOK - CORPORATE AUTHOR

      National Allergy Association. Allergies in Children. New York:

            Random, 1998.

BOOK - WITH AN EDITOR

      Ruitenbeek, Hendrick, ed. Freud As We Knew Him. Detroit:

            Wayne State University Press, 1973.

BOOK - WITH AN AUTHOR AND AN EDITOR

      Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. Ed. Sylvan Barnet. New

             York:Signet NAL, 1963.

BOOK - WITHOUT AN AUTHOR, EDITOR, or CORPORATE AUTHOR

      Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. 10th ed.

            Springfield:Merriam-Webster, 1993.

 

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REFERENCE BOOKS

UNSIGNED ARTICLE  (Do not put publishing information for general encyclopedias.)

      "Mammoth." The Columbia Encyclopedia. 1993.

SIGNED ARTICLE   (You need edition statement if given for an encyclopedia.)

      Mark, Herman F. "Polymers." Encyclopedia Britannica:

           Macropaedia. 15th ed. 1975.

ARTICLE - WITH AN AUTHOR AND AN EDITOR (Ex. Specialized Encyclopedia)   

      Smith, John. "The Asian Elephant." Ed. Bill Jones. Animals

            Around the World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998.

 

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MAGAZINES

 

SIGNED ARTICLE IN A MAGAZINE   (Tells who wrote the article.)

      Stevens, Mark. "Low and Behold." New Republic 24 Dec. 1990:

            27-33.

UNSIGNED MAGAZINE ARTICLE

      "The Right to Die." Time 11 Oct. 1976: 101.

 

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CULTUREGRAMS, PHAMPLETS, VIDEO, INTERVIEW

CULTUREGRAMS

      "Republic of Bolivia." Orem, UT: CultureGrams, 2000.

PAMPHLET

      Medical Answers About AIDS. New York: Health Crisis, 1994.

FILM OR VIDEO RECORDING

      Spielberg, Steven, dir. Schindler’s List. Performers Liam

            Neeson and Ben Kingsley. Universal, 1993.   

INTERVIEW

      Graaf, Vera. Personal Interview. 19 Dec. 1993.

 

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COMPUTER RESOURCES

CD-ROM

      Elephants." Software Tool Works Multimedia. CD-ROM. Novato, CA:

            Software Tool Works, 1991.

WWW SITES (WORLD WIDE WEB)

To cite files available for viewing/downloading via the World Wide Web, give the author’s name (if known), the full title of the work in quotation marks, the date of access, and the full http address.

      Burka, Lauren P. "A Hypertext History of Multi-user Dimensions."

            5 Dec. 1994 <http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lpb/mud-history.html>.

ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA

      Cochrum, E. Lindell. "Manatee." Encyclopedia Americana Online. Grolier

            Inc., 2001. 10 Sept. 2001 <http://go.grolier.com/gol>.

DATABASES

Sirs Discoverer

      Rice, Larry. "Pandas in Peril." Boys' Life Nov. 1995: 20-23. SIRS

            Discoverer. SIRS Discoverer on the Web. Cave Spring Junior

            High Library, Roanoke, VA. 7 Sept. 2001 <http://discoverer.sirs.com>.

InfoTrac

      Fischman, Josh. "From China With Love." U.S. News & World Report

            Dec. 2000. InfoTrac: Junior Edition. Online. 17 Sept. 2001

            <http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/cavespr>. Keyword: giant panda.

 

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