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I. Print sources

Book

Beck, C. A. J., & Sales, B. D. (2001).
     Family mediation:  Facts, myths, and future
     prospects. Washington, DC: American
     Psychological Association.

Article or chapter in an edited book

Bjork, R. A. (1989). Retrieval inhibition as
     an adaptive mechanism in human memory.
     In H. L. Roediger III & F. I. M. Craik
     (Eds.), Varieties of memory &
     consciousness (pp. 309-330). Hillsdale,
     NJ: Erlbaum.

Journal article

Connel, B. (2004). Golf vs. love.
     Golf Magazine, 47(2), 54.

Herman, L. M., Kuczaj, S. A., III, &
     Holder, M. D. (1993). Responses
     to anomalous gestural sequences
     by a language-trained dolphin:
     Evidence for processing of 
     semantic relations and syntactic
     information. Journal of Experimental 
     Psychology: General, 122, 184-194.

Newspaper article

Schwartz, J. (1993, September 30). Obesity affects
     economic, social status. The Washington Post,
     pp. A1, A4.

Government document

National Institute of Mental Health. (1990). Clinical
     training in serious mental illness (DHHS
     Publication No. ADM 90-1679). Washington,
     DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

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II. Electronic sources

Article or chapter from an edited netLibrary book

Turrittin, J. (2002). Colonial midwives
     and modernizing childbirth in
     French West Africa. In Giger, S.,
     Musisi, N., & Allman, J. (Eds.), 
     Women in African colonial histories
     (pp. 71-92). Bloomington, IN: Indiana
     University Press. Retrieved August 16,
     2004 from netLibrary database.

Article from an e-journal

Fredrickson, B. L. (2000, March 7).
     Cultivating positive emotions
     to optimize health and well-being.
     Prevention & Treatment, 3, Article
     0001a.  Retrieved November 20, 2000, from 
     http://journals.apa.org/prevention/
     volume3/pre0030001a.html

Daily newspaper article

Barnhart, T. (2004, August 15). College
     football insider. The Atlanta Journal-
     Constitution, 18D. Retrieved August 16,
     2004 from LexisNexis Academic database.

Article found through a database

Vannini, P. (2004). Will you marry me?
     Journal of Popular Culture, 38(1), 169-186.
     Retrieved August 16, 2004 from
     Academic Search Complete database.

Document on a web site (Government agency)

United States Sentencing Commission.
     (n.d.). 1997 sourcebook of federal
     sentencing statistics.  Retrieved
     December 8, 1999, from
     http://www.ussc.gov/annrpt/
     1997/sbtoc97/htm

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