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| Material Type | In-text Citation | Works Cited |
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Book with author(s) and editors - citing a portion written by the author(s) |
(Tynan 131) |
Tynan, Kenneth. "The Kansas Farm Murders." The Critical Response to Truman Capote, edited by Joseph J. Waldmeir and John C. Waldmeir, Greenwood Press, 1999, pp. 129-34. |
| Book with author(s) and editors(s) - citing a portion written by the editor(s) | (Coetzee vi-viii) |
Coetzee, J. M. Introduction. The Confusions of Young Torless, by Robert Musil, translated by Shaun Whiteside, Penguin Classics, 2001, pp. xix-xxxvi. If you are citing a portion of the book written by the editor, begin with the editor. Give the author's name after the title preceded by [by]. |
| Anthology with editor(s) | (O'Brien 690) |
O'Brien, Tim. "The Things They Carried." Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, edited by Robert DiYanni, 6th ed., McGraw Hill, 2007, pp. 684-97. |
| Book with editor(s) and no author | (Tallett and Trim 311-21) |
Tallett, Frank, and D. J. B. Trim, editors. European Warfare, 1350-1750. Cambridge UP, 2010. |