Book:
1. William H. Rehnquist, The Supreme Court: A History (New York: Knopf, 2001), 204.
Rehnquist, William H. The Supreme Court: A History. New York: Knopf, 2001.
Edited work:
1. Jack Beatty, ed., Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America (New York: Broadway Books, 2001), 127.
Beatty, Jack, ed. Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America. New York: Broadway Books, 2001.
Work in an anthology:
1. Zora Neale Hurston, “From Dust Tracks on a Road,” in The Norton Book of American Autobiography, ed. Jay Parini (New York: Norton, 1999), 336.
Hurston, Zora Neale. “From Dust Tracks on a Road.” In The Norton Book of American Autobiography, edited by Jay Parini, 333-43. New York: Norton, 1999.
Article in a journal
(include the volume and issue numbers and the date; end the bibliography entry with the page range of the article):
1. Jonathan Zimmerman, “Ethnicity and the History Wars in the 1920s,” Journal of American History 87, no. 1 (2000): 101.
Zimmerman, Jonathan. “Ethnicity and the History Wars in the 1920s.” Journal of American History 87, no. 1 (2000): 92-111.
Article in a magazine/newspaper:
1. Joy Williams, “One Acre,” Harper’s, February 2001, 62.
Williams, Joy. “One Acre.” Harper’s, February 2001, 59-65.
Government document:
1. U.S. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1943 (Washington, DC: GPO, 1965), 562.
U.S. Department of State. Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1943. Washington, DC: GPO, 1965.
Source quoted in another source:
1. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (New York: Random House, 1965), 11, quoted in Mark Skousen, The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and the Ideas of the Great Thinkers (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2001), 15.
Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations, 11. New York: Random House, 1965. Quoted in Mark Skousen, The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and the Ideas of the Great Thinkers (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2001), 15.
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