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| Material Type | In-text Citation | Works Cited |
| Book with one author | (Brinkley 525) |
Brinkley, Alan. The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People. 7th ed., McGraw Hill, 2014. |
| Book with two authors | (Wilson and Schlosser 67) |
Wilson, Charles, and Eric Schlosser. Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food. Houghton Mifflin, 2007. |
|
Book with three or more authors |
(James et al. 157-165) |
James, Charles, et al. The Sociological History of People and Places. Magnolia Press, 2005. |
| Book with no author | (Beowulf 16-31) | Beowulf. Translated by Burton Raffel, Signet, 2008. |
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Electronic book (Internet, available to everyone) |
(Wilde 83) |
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. 1890. Project Gutenberg, www.gutenberg.org/files/174/174-h/174-h.htm. |
| Electronic book from an online database (login required) |
(Hardy 58-60) |
Hardy, Thomas. Far From The Madding Crowd. The Floating Press, 2009. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost), search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=410085&site=ehost-live&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_Cover. permalink is optional. |
| Part of a book from an online database (chapter, essay, piece) | (Rosenfelt 427) | Porter, Carolyn. "Ann Beattie: The Art of the Missing." The Contemporary American Women Writers: Native Strategies, edited by William J. Scheick and Catherine Rainwater, UP of Kentucky, 2015, pp. 9-28. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost), search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=938247&site=ehost-live&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_Cover. permalink is optional. |
| Electronic book (Read on an eReader device i.e. Nook, Kindle, etc.) | (Austen 101) |
Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. Amazon Digital Services, 2012. |