Printed Resources

How to cite a book:

Takaki, Ronald. Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

or:

Takaki, Ronald. Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

When the book is edited:

Cameron, George C., Ed. They Wrote on Clay. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938.

How to cite an essay in a journal:

Thompson, Samuel M. "The Authority of Law." Ethics 75 (October 1964): 16-24.

How to cite an article in a newspaper:

"Amazing Amazon Region." New York Times, 12 January 1969, sec. 4, E11.

Non-Printed Media

How to cite a radio or television program:

TVNZ. "The Amazing Mollusc." 17 April 1972.

How to cite a film:

Tamahori, Lee, Director. Once Were Warriors. 1995.

How to cite a recording (in this case, a song called "Blood Red River," on an album called The Legendary Peg Leg Howell:

Howell, Peg Leg. "Blood Red River." The Legendary Peg Leg Howell. 1943, Testament T-2204.

How to cite a work of art (in this case, a painting):

Calcagno, Larry. Landscape. 1970.

Archival and Documentary Resources

How to cite a document in an archive:

Castner, Gen. Joseph C. "Report to the War Department, 17 January 1927." Modern Military Records Division, Record Group 94, National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Hornbeck, Stanley K. Memorandum on Clarence Gauss, 8 May 1942. Hornbeck Papers, File "Gauss," Hoover Library, Stanford, California.

How to cite an entire collection in an archive:

Washington, D.C., National Archives, Modern Military Records Division, Record Group 94.

How to cite a dissertation:

Phillips, O. C., Jr. "The Influence of Ovid on Lucan's Bellum civile". Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1962.

How to cite an interview:

Wyler, A. A. Interview held during meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Pasadena, California, June 1964.

Online Resources

How to cite a Web page:

Zwick, Jim. Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935, http://www.rochester.ican.net/~fjzwick/ail98-35.html (May 1997).

For further reference, see:

The Chicago Manual of Style or Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html).

The Sarah Bird Askew Library of the William Paterson College of New Jersey's "Guide for Citing Electronic Information" (www.wilpaterson.edu/wpcpages/library/citing.htm), a version of Li and Crane's "Bibliographic Formats for Citing Electronic Information" (www.uvm.edu/~ncrane/estyles/)

Maurice Crouse's "Citing Electronic Information in History Papers" (www.people.memphis.edu/~mcrouse/elcite.html)

Janice R. Walker's "MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources" (www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html), endorsed by the Alliance for Computers & Writing

Mark Wainwright's "Citation style for Internet sources" (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/maw13/citation.html)

Prepared by Professor Catherine Lavender for courses taught in The Department of History, The College of Staten Island of The City University of New York. Send email to lavender@mail.csi.cuny.edu
Last modified: 12 May 2010.