Here are a few common examples!
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Library database |
Database record that offers a permanent link: "Avoiding Another 'Slam-Dunk'." The Washington Post, May 24, 2006. Accessed November 3, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com.ezproxy.umuc.edu/pqdweb?did=1041165271&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=8724&RQT=309&VName=PQD. Database record that does not offer a permanent link: Use database name and document ID or accession number. de Lisser, Eleena. "Update on Small Business: Firms With Virtual Environments Appeal to Workers." Wall Street Journal, October 5, 1999. Accessed September 30, 2008. ProQuest Newspapers (45315145). |
Free Web |
Include the URL (or DOI if available) at the end of the citation. Stolberg, Sheryl Gay and Robert Pear. “Wary Centrists Posing Challenge in Health Care Vote.” New York Times, February 27, 2010. Accessed February 28, 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/us/politics/28health.html. |
In print |
Niederkorn, William S."A Scholar Recants on His 'Shakespeare' Discovery." New York Times, June 20, 2002, Arts section, Midwest edition. |
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Basic book |
Doniger, Wendy. Splitting the Difference. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. |
Edited or translated book |
Lattimore, Richard, trans. The Iliad of Homer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951. |
Numbered edition other than the first |
Gowers, Ernest. The Complete Plain Words, 3rd ed. London: H. M. Stationary Office, 1986; Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1987. Citations are to the Penguin edition. |
Revised edition |
Barzun, Jacques. Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers. Rev. ed. 1985. Reprint, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. |
Multi-volume set |
Wright, Sewell. Evolution and the Genetics of Populations, vol. 2, Theory of Gene Frequencies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969. |
Chapter or article in an anthology |
Wiese, Andrew."'The House I Live In': Race, Class, and African American Suburban Dreams in the Postwar United States." In The New Suburban History, edited by Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. |
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Library database |
Davenport, Thomas H. and John C. Beck. The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business. Harvard Business School Press, 2001. Accessed January 4, 2011. NetLibrary e-book. |
Free Web |
E-book with a DOI: Antokoletz, Elliot. Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartok. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Accessed March 10, 2010. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195365825.001.0001. E-Book without a DOI: Kurland, Philip B. and Ralph Lerner, eds. The Founders’ Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Accessed February 28, 2010. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/. |
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Web Sites |
If the Web site has a date: Google. “Google Privacy Policy.” Last modified March 11, 2009. Accessed July 13, 2009. http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html. If no date is found: McDonald’s Corporation. “McDonald’s Happy Meal Toy Safety Facts.” Accessed July 19, 2008. http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about/factsheets.html. |
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Image |
A brief statement of the source of an illustration, known as a credit line, is usually appropriate and sometimes mandatory. (Cartoon by John Leech. "Punch's Almanac for 1855," Punch 28 [1855]: 8.) |
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Thanks to the University of Maryland University College Library for permission to use their examples!
Your campus librarian will be glad to help you use the CMS book or you can access a quick guide HERE, published by the CMS staff. Another great citation resource is the Purdue OWL!