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I. Print sources
Book with one author
Bird, Caroline. The Two-Paycheck Marriage: How Women at Work Are Changing Life in America. New York: Rawson, 1979.
Book with two authors
Bartlett, Donald L., and Harold L. Sheppard. Economic Failure, Alienation, and Extremism. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1968.
Book with corporate author
American Red Cross. Standard First Aid and Personal Safety. 2nd ed. Garden City: Doubleday, 1979.
Edited book
Barnet, Sylvan, Mortin Berman, and William Burto, eds. An Introduction to Literature. 7th ed. Boston: Little, 1981.
Literary work from an anthology
Bond, Nelson. "The Voice from the Curious Cube." 100 Great Science Fiction Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin Hary Greenberg, and Joseph D. Oleander. New York: Doubleday, 1978. 172-75.
A work with more than one volume
Odell, George C.D. Annals of the New York Stage. 15 vols. New York: Columbia UP, 1927-49.
Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. Vol. 2. New York: Harcourt, 1939. 4 vols.
Note: The Odell volumes were published over a period of time: the Sandburg work was published in one year; also note that only Vol. 2 of the Sandburg work was used.
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Helterman, Jeffrey. "Arthur Miller." Twentieth-Century American Dramatists Part 2: K-Z. Detroit: Gale, 1981. 86-111. Vol. 7. of Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Daily newspaper
"Study Labels Alcohol Fuel as Threat to Food Supply." Dallas Times Herald 16 Mar. 1980, 14A.
Greeley, Andrew. "Today's Morality Play: The Sitcom." New York Times 17 May 1987, late ed., sec. 22: 1+.
Weekly magazine
Clark, Matt, Sharon Begley, and Mary Hager. "The Miracles of Spliced Genes." Newsweek 17 Mar. 1980: 62-71.
Monthly magazine
Frolich, Cliff. "The Physics of Somersaulting." Scientific American Mar. 1980: 154-64.
Scholarly journal
Graham, Loren R. "Concerns about Science and Attempts to Regulate Enquiry." Daedalus 107.2 (1978): 1-21.
Signed encyclopedia article
Schortman, Edward M. and Patricia A. Urban. "Cultural Interaction." The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures: The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America. Ed. David Carrasco. 3 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001.
Contemporary Literary Criticism
TopEggenschwiler, David. "The Ordered Disorder of Ethan Frome." Studies in the Novel 9.3 (Fall 1977): 237-46. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism Ed. Sharon K. Hall. Vol. 27. Detroit: Gale, 1988. 251-59.
II. Electronic sources
Scholarly Journal in Academic Search Complete
Williams, Daniel J. "Changing the Attitudes that Predict Underage Drinking in College Students: A Program Evaluation." Journal of College Counseling 5.1 (2001):39-50. Academic Search Complete. EBSCOhost. GALILEO. Georgia Gwinnett College Library, Lawrenceville, GA. 30 Nov. 2004 <http://www.galileo.usg.edu>.
Magazine Article in Academic Search Complete
Cowley, Geoffrey. "I'd Toddle a Mile for a Camel." Newsweek 23 Dec. 1991: 70-71. Academic Search Complete. EBSCOhost. GALILEO. Georgia Gwinnett College Library, Lawrenceville, GA. 29 Jan. 2004 <http://www.galileo.usg.edu>.
Newspaper Article from LEXIS NEXIS Academic
Massing, Michael. "Movie Violence, Still Playing; The Liberals Just Don't Get It." Washington Post 4 July 1999: B1. LexisNexis Academic: News. LexisNexis. GALILEO. Georgia Gwinnett College Library, Lawrenceville, GA. 15 Jan. 2004 <http://www.galileo.usg.edu>.
Critical Essay in Literature Resource Center
"Saul Bellow." Contemporary Authors Online 2002. Literature Resource Center. Gale. GALILEO. Georgia Gwinnett College Library, Lawrenceville, GA. 5 Jan. 2004 <http://www.galileo.usg.edu>.
Scholarly journal in JSTOR
Moses, Cat. "The Blues Aesthetic in Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye'." African American Review 33.4 (1999): 623-37. JSTOR. GALILEO. Georgia Gwinnett College Library, Lawrenceville, GA. 9 Aug. 2004 <http://www.galileo.usg.edu>.
Book from netLibrary
Burner, Eric. And Gently Shall He Lead Them. New York: NYUP, 1994. Georgia Gwinnett College Library, Lawrenceville, GA. 9 Aug. 2004 <http://www.netlibrary.com>.
Article in a scholarly e-journal
McKenzie, Jamie. "Teaching Media Literacy in an Age of Edutainment." From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal 8.9 (1999). 12 Jan. 2004 <http://www.fno.org/jun99/media.html>.
Article from the New Georgia Encyclopedia
"Early Victorian Architecture: Overview." New Georgia Encyclopedia. 9 Aug. 2004 <http: www.georgiaencyclopedia.org>.
Document from the Digital Library of Geoorgia
Cornelius C. Platter Civil War Diary, 1864-1865, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia. 9 Aug. 2004 <www.galileo.usg.edu>.
Online Document within a scholarly project
Frederick I. "Letter to Leopold of Austria". 1189. Hanover Historical Texts Project. Dec. 1997. Hanover Coll. 22 Jan. 2004 <http://history.hanover.edu/texts/frederic.html>.
Online government publication
United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Facts About Access to Tobacco by Minors." 23 May 1997. Fact Sheets. 12 Jan. 2004 <http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/fact/minors.htm>.
Professional web site
MLA: Modern Language Association. 30 Jan. 2004. Modern Language Association. 9 Aug. 2004 <http://www.mla.org/homepage>.
Personal web site
Smith, Kate. Home page. 19 Jan. 2004. 20 Aug. 2004 <http://www.geocities.com/~ksmith/index.htm>.
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