Common Reference Examples Guide

Despite the invaluable guidance of the Chicago Manual of Style, the journal has developed some conventions at the request of our varied audiences (authors, our readership, publishing companies, and the Press). This short guide will cite examples of the various kinds of references most often found in our journal's manuscripts. One good example involves the use of colons in the course of In-text citations. Africa Today prefers to use colons between the date of publication and the page number of a particular source, instead of commas as recommended by the CMOS. For example, the CMOS prefers this method of in-text citation: (Avery 1999, 210), but Africa Today uses the following method: (Avery 1999:[space]210) so as to avoid a cramped appearance. Furthermore, the CMOS use of commas in a series is often unconventional, so we suggest that authors cite work titles as they appear on the work itself.



Books
  • One Author
    16.35
    In the reference list, where entries are arranged alphabetically by authors' last names, the name is inverted, last name first (see also 15.83):

    Barbour, Ian. 1974. Myths, models, and paradigms: A comparative study in science and religion. New York: Harper and Row. Woodthrush, Julian R. 1985. Birdsong and mating behavior. New Haven, Conn.: George and Lilian Fromson.

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  • Two Authors
    16.36
    In the reference list the name of the first author is inverted, that of the second is given in its natural order, and the conjunction is preceded by a comma (see also 15.85):

    Unwin, Liam R, and Joseph Galway. 1984. Calm in Ireland. Boston: Stronghope Press.

    Weinberg, Arthur, and Lila Weinberg. 1980. Clarence Darrow: A sentimental rebel. New York: Putnam's Sons.

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  • Three Authors
    16.37
    See discussion at 15.86.

    BmR, P. D., S. W. Johnson, and C. R. T. Bach. 1989. Mastering string quartets. San Francisco: Amati Press.

    or

    Brett, P. D.; S. W. Johnson; and C. R. T. Bach. 1989. Mastering string quartets. San Francisco: Amati Press.

    Merk, Jane S., Ida J. Fogg, and Charles A. Snowe. 1987. Astrology for the beginning meteorologist. Chicago: Darkweather and Cler

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  • More Than Three Authors
    16.38
    When referring to a work by more than three authors, the text citation should give the last name of the first author followed by et al. or an others without intervening punctuation. In the reference list entry, however, it is customary to give all of the authors, in the order in which they appear on the title page.

    (Sanders et al. 1989)

    Sanders, G. S., T. R. Brice, V. L. deSantis, and C. C. Ryder. 1989. Prediction and prevention of famine. Los Angeles: Timothy Peters.

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  • Anonymous Works
    16.40
    If the authorship of a work is known but not revealed on the title page, the name is given in brackets:

    [Doe, Jane]. 1948. The burden of anonymity. Nowhere: Nonesuch Press.

    If the identity of the author is merely surmised, a question mark follows the name before the closing bracket:

    [Doe, Jane?]. 1948. The burden of anonymity. Nowhere: Nonesuch Press.

    The text citation in both cases should give the name in brackets. In the latter case a question mark may be included if desired.

    ([Doe] 1948) ([Doe?] 1948)

    16.41
    If the name of the author is unascertainable, the reference entry should begin with the title of the work. The use of Anonymous or Anon. is to be avoided. The date, in this case, follows the title.

    The burden of anonymity. 1948. Nowhere: Nonesuch Press.

    In alphabetizing the entry, the initial article is discounted. The article may be transposed to the end of the title, following a comma:

    Burden of anonyrnity, The

    The text reference for such an entry may substitute the title, or a shortened version of the title, for the author (see 15.252):

    (Burden of anonymity 1948) or (Burden 1948)

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  • Descriptive Phrase as "Author"
    16.42
    See discussion at 15.92.

    (Cotton Manufacturer 1869)

    Cotton Manufacturer. 1869. An inquiry into the causes of the present long-continued depression in the cotton trade, with suggestions for its improvement. Bury.

    or

    A Cotton Manufacturer. 1869. An inquiry. . . [alphabetized under C]

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  • Editor, Compiler, or Translator
    16.46
    The name of the editor, compiler, or translator takes the place of the author when no author is listed on the title page. In the reference list, the abbreviation ed./eds., comp./comps., or trans. follows the name and is preceded by a comma:

    Wiley, Bell I., ed. 1980. Slaves no more: Letters from Liberia, 1833-1869. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

    Kamrany, Nake M., and Richard H. Day, eds. 1980. Economic issues of the eighties. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

    Lenz, Carolyn Ruth Swift, Gayle Greene, and Carol Thomas Neely, eds. 1980. The woman's part: Feminist criticism of Shakespeare. Champaign: University of Illinois Press.

    McBurney, William Harlin, comp. 1960. A check list of English prose fiction, 1700-1739. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

    Wang, Jen Yu, and Gerald L. Berger, eds. and comps. 1962. Bibliography of agricultural meteorology. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

    Williams, Charles, Margaret Skelton, Tim Peterson, Jeanne Cavanagh, and David Michaelson, eds. and trans. 1989. Letters, stories, and poems from underground suburbia. Chicago: Namsorg and DeLor.

    The abbreviations for editor, compiler, and translator are omitted from the text citations:

    • (Wiley 1980)
    • (Kamrany and Day 1980)
    • (Lenz, Greene, and Neely 1980)
    • (McBumey 1960)
    • (Wang and Berger 1962)
    • (Williams et al. 1989)

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  • Editor, Compiler, or Translator With an Author
    16.47
    The edited, compiled, or translated work of an author indicated on the title page is normally listed under that author's name rather than the name of the editor, compiler, or translator. In the reference list the name of the editor, compiler, or translator is part of a new element following the title and a period. The new element is introduced by Edited by, Compiled by, or Translated by. The abbreviations Ed., Comp., and Trans. may also be used, but in this case they stand for Edited by, Translated by, and so forth, and therefore the plural abbreviations Eds. and Comps. should not be used.

    Aris, Philippe. 1962. Centuries of childhood: A social history of family life. Translated by Robert Baldock. New York: Knopf.

    Pound, Ezra. 1953. Literary essays. Edited by T. S. Eliot. New York: New Directions.

    Unseld, Siegfried. 1980. The author and his publisher. Translated by Hunter Hannum and Hildegarde Hannum. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.

    Newton, Isaac. 1976. The mathematical papers of lsaac Newton. Ed. D. T. Whiteside and M. A. Hoskins. Vol. 7, 1691-1695. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.

    Naumov, N. P. 1972. The ecology of animals. Translated from the Russian by Frederick K. Pious Jr. and edited by Norman D. Levine. Champaign: Univ. of Illinois Press.

    Or, to shorten this last entry:

    . . . Trans. F. K. Pious Jr., ed. N. D. Levine. . . .

    In text citations for these works, the name of the author is used:

    • (Aris 1962)
    • (Pound 1953)
    • (Unseld 1980)
    • (Newton 1976)
    • (Naumov 1972)

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  • Authors of Forewords and Introductions
    16.51
    Authors of forewords and introductions to works by other authors should be omitted from reference list entries unless the foreword or introduction is the item cited. In that case the entry is listed under the name of the author of the foreword or introduction. The author of the work itself is given after the title of the work, from which it is separated by a comma and the word by:

    Namsorg, Nodj. 1990. Foreword to The psychodynamics of chronic stress, by Salvador Mensana. New York: Isadore O'Malley and Son.

    The text citation uses the name of the author of the foreword or introduction:

    (Namsorg 1990)

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  • Organization, Association, or Corporation as "Author"
    16.52
    If a publication issued by an organization carries no personal author'sname on the title page, the organization should be listed as the author, even if the name is repeated in the title or series title or as the publisher:

    International Monetary Fund (IMF). 1977. Surveys of African economies. Vol. 7, Algeria, Mali, Morocco, and Tunisia. Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund.

    Modem Language Association of America (MLA). 1975. 1973 MLA international bibliography of books and articles on the modern languages and literatures. 3 vols. New York: Modem Language Association of America.

    International Statistics Institute (ISA). 1964. Proceedings of the 34th session, International Statistics Institute, Ottawa, 1963. 2 vols. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

    Ohio State University. College of Administrative Science. Center for Human Resource Research. 1977. The national longitudinal surveys handbook. Rev. ed. Columbus.

    Washington University and the Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis, Center for the Study of American Business. 1977. Financing economic growth: The problem of capital formation. CSAB Working Paper no. 19. Saint Louis.

    or

    Center for the Study of American Business (CSAB). Washington University and the Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis. 1977 ....

    Hamelin Public Welfare Department. Pest Control Division. Rodent Activities Termination Section (RATS). 1985. The piper and the rats: A musical experiment. Report no. 84. Hamelin, Vt.

    or

    Rodent Activities Termination Section (RATS). Hamelin Public Welfare Department. Pest Control Division. 1985. . . .

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Parts of a Book
  • Chapters or Other Titled Parts of a Book"
    16.75
    When a chapter or other titled part of a book is cited, that title is given in roman type, with sentence capitalization, without quotation marks. The title ends with a period and is followed by In and the title of the book. If the part is identified by type and number ("Chap. 8 in," "Pt. 1 of"), this information replaces In preceding the book title.

    Phibbs, Brendan. 1987. Herrlisheim: Diary of a battle. In The other side of time: A combat surgeon in Worm War H. Boston: Little, Brown.

    McNeill, William H. 1963. The era of Middle Eastern dominance to 500 B.C. Pt. 1 of The rise of the West. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Thompson, Virgil. 1971. Cage and the college of noises. Chap. 8 in American music since 1910. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.

    Kaiser, Ernest. 1964. The literature of Harlem. In Harlem: A community in transition, edited by J. H. Clarke. New York: Citadel Press.

    Text citations to such titled parts may include the page reference, but the part is unnecessary:

    • (Phibbs 1987, 117-63)
    • (McNeill 1963)
    • (Thompson 1971, 231-36)
    • (Kaiser 1964, 48, 54)

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  • Preface, Foreword, Introduction, and Similar Parts of a Book
    16.77
    See discussion at 15.129-31.

    Jacobs, James B. 1989. Introduction to Drunk driving: An American dilemma. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Zimring, Franklin E. 1989. Foreword to Drunk driving: An American dilemma, by James B. Jacobs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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Multivolume Works
  • Citing the Work as a Whole
    16.82
    See discussion at 15.136.

    Wright, Sewall. 1968-78. Evolution and the genetics of populations. 4 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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  • Citing a Particular Volume
    16.83
    See discussion at 15.137-42, 16.12.

    Ncombwai, Numi. 1988. Epidemiology in Africa. Vol. 2. New York: Hershall and Son.

    Farmwinkle, William. 1983. Humor of the American Midwest. Vol. 2 of Survey of American humor. Boston: Plenum Press.

    or

    Farmwinkle, William. 1983. Survey of American humor. Vol. 2, Humor of the American Midwest. Boston: Plenum Press.

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  • General Editors and Volume Editors or Authors
    16.85
    See discussion at 15.143.

    Tancredi, Edmund. 1999. The letters of Edmund Tancredi. Edited by William Tismont. Vol. 2, The war years, edited by Arthur Soma. San Francisco: Idlewink Press.

    or

    Tancredi, Edmund. 1989. The war years. Edited by Arthur Soma. Vol. 2 of The letters of Edmund Tancredi, edited by William Tismont. San Francisco: Idlewink Press.

    Ray, Gordon N., ed. 1959. An introduction to literature. Vol. 2, The nature of drama, by Hubert Hefner. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

    or

    Hefner, Hubert. 1959. The nature of drama. Vol. 2 of An introduction to literature, edited by Gordon N. Ray. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

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Journals
    16.103
    Journals are specialized periodicals and have more restricted circulation than popular magazines. They are often intended for an academic, or scholarly, audience. It is more important to give volume and issue numbers in citing these publications than in citing magazine articles. Except for the differences outlined above (16.21-25), the guidelines applicable to journal entries in a bibliography generally apply to reference list entries (see 15.207-30). The examples in the paragraphs that follow illustrate the various kinds of journal entries likely to be found in reference lists and the variations in style permissible in such entries.
  • Article Titles and Journal Titles
    16.104
    See discussion at 15.208 and 16.100-101.

    Bennett, John W. 1946. The interpretation of Pueblo culture: A question of values. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 2:361-74.

    or

    Bennett, J. W. 1946. The interpretation of Pueblo culture. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 2:361-74.

    or

    Bennett, J. W. 1946. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 2:361-74.

    Auerbach, C. 1949. Chemical mutagenesis. Biol. Rev. 24:355-91.

    Banks, William. 1958. A secret meeting in Boise. Midwestern Political Review 6:26-31.

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  • Titles Within Article Titles
    16.105
    See discussion at 15.219.

    Lofton, Peter. 1989. Reverberations between wordplay and swordplay in Hamlet. Aeolian Studies 2:12-29.

    Loomis, C. C., Jr. 1960. Structure and sympathy in Joyce's "The dead." PMLA 75:149-5 I.

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  • Quotations Within Article Titles
    16.106
    See discussion at 15.220.

    Arbogast, Melvin. 1988. Meeting "a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo": Joyce observed. Fictive Reviews 2:23-31.

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  • Titles Ending with Question Marks or Exclamation Points
    16.107
    See discussion at 15.221.

    Starczak, E. S. 1986. At last! Patience rewarded. Esoterica 13:42-49.

    Quimber, Collie. 1977. Did Babbington disclose more than was necessary? Political Review 16:71-78.

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  • Volume and Issue Numbers
    16.108
    See discussion at 15.210-11.

    Sommerstein, A. R. 1972. On the so-called definite article in English. Linguistic Inquiry 3:197-209.

    Meltzer, Franqoise. 1979. On Rimbaud's "Voyelles." Modern Philology, vol. 76.

    Armstrong, Paul B. 1974. E. M. Forster's Howards End: The existential crisis of the liberal imagination. Mosaic 8, no. 1:183-99.

    Brain, C. K., and V. Brain. 1977. Microfaunal remains from Mirabib: Some evidence of palaeoecological changes in the Namlb. Madoqua 10 (4): 285-93.

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  • Month or Season
    16.109
    See discussion at 15.212.

    Orshansky, Mollie. 1965. Counting the poor: Another look at the poverty profile. Social Security Bulletin 28 (January): 3-29.

    Martin, Albro. 1979. Uneasy partners: Government-business relations in twentieth-century American history. Prologue 11 (summer): 91-105.

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  • No Volume Number
    16.113
    See discussion at 15.225.

    Grabowski, M. M. 1990. After post-modernism. Journal of the American Aesthetic Association, no. 3:39-47.

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Popular Magazines
    16.116
    See discussion covering articles and regular features at 15.231-33.

    Karen, Robert. 1990. Becoming attached. Atlantic, February, 35-70.

    Caspari, E. W., and R. E. Marshak. 1965. The rise and fall of Lysenko. Science, 16 July, 275-78.

    Currents in the news. 1980. U.S. News and World Report, 11 February.

    The text citation for the last entry above might be

    (Currents in the news 1980) or (Currents 1980)

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Newspapers
    16.117
    In the author-date system, citations to items in daily newspapers are made in running text and are usually not listed individually in the reference list. When introduced in this way, titles are treated as in the humanities style.

    An editorial in the Philadelphia Inquirer, 30 July 1990, took the position that . . .

    In an article entitled "The Iron Curtain Rises," published in the Wilberton Journal, 7 February 1990, Albert Finnonian reported that . . .

    16.118
    Should the author deem it appropriate to include a newspaper citation in the reference list, an individual entry might be made as follows:

    Philadelphia Inquirer. 1990. Editorial, 30 July.

    Finnonian, Albert. 1990. The Iron Curtain rises. Wilberton Journal, 7 February, final edition.

    (For a discussion of other matters of style in making citations to items in newspapers, see 15.234-42.)

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Reviews in Periodicals
    16.119
    See the general discussion at 15.243.

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  • Book Reviews
    16.120
    See discussion at 15.244.

    Spitzer, Steven. 1985. Review of The limits of law enforcement, by Hans Zeisel. American Journal of Sociology 91 (November): 726-29.

    Lardner, Susan. 1980. Third eye open. Review of The salt eaters, by Toni Cade Bambara. New Yorker, 5 May, 169.

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  • Interviews and Personal Communications
    16.126
    Interviews and personal communications are recorded in a variety of ways (see discussion at 15.262-69). References should begin with the name of the person interviewed or the person from whom the communication was received.

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Interviews
    16.127
    Citations to interviews are best made in running text in the author-date system, but if the author wishes, they may also be listed in the reference list or in an appendix.

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  • Published, Broadcast, or Recorded Interviews
    16.128
    See discussion at 15.263-64.

    Bellour, Raymond. 1979. Alternation, segmentation, hypnosis: Interview with Raymond Bellour. By Janet Bergstrom. Camera Obscura, nos. 3/4 (summer): 89-94.

    Singer, Isaac Bashevis. 1981. Interview by Harold Fiender. In Writers at work: The "Paris Review" interviews, edited by George Plimpton. 5th ser., 81-92. New York: Viking Press.

    Bundy, McGeorge. 1990. Interview by Robert MacNell. MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour. Public Broadcasting System, 7 February.

    al-Hamad, Hamid. 1989. Alexandrian archaeology. Interview by Barker Comstock, Videocassette, directed by Nathan Goodhugh. Warberg Films.

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  • Unpublished Interviews
    16.129
    See discussion at 15.265.

    Hunt, Horace [pseud.]. 1976. Interview by Ronald Schatz. Tape recording, 16 May. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg.

    Roemer, Merle A. 1973. Interview by author. Tape recording. Millington, Md., 26 July.

    Peterson, Tim G. 1989. Interview by author. Long Beach, Calif., 1 August.

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  • Theses and Dissertations
    16.1332
    • (King 1976, 32-37)
    • (Ross n.d., 142-55)
    • (Mann 1968)
    • (Maguire 1976)

    King, Andrew J. 1976. Law and land use in Chicago: A pre-history of modern zoning. Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin.

    Ross, Dorothy. n.d. The Irish-Catholic immigrant, 1880-1900: A study in social mobility. Master's thesis, Columbia University.

    Mann, A. E. 1968. The paleodemography of Australopithecus. Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley.

    Maguire, J. 1976. A taxonomic and ecological study of the living and fossil Hystricidae with particular reference to southern Africa. Ph.D. diss., Department of Geology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

    If the citation is to an abstract published in Dissertation Abstracts International, the form may be as follows:

    (Downright 1993)

    Downright, Alice B. 1993. Narrative diffusion and the professional editor. Ph.D. diss.. University of Chicago. 1992. Abstract in Dissertation Abstracts International 52:3245A-3246A.

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  • Papers Read at Meetings
    16.133
    See discussion at 15.273. The titles of the meetings (symposia, conferences) are given regular title capitalization.

    (Speth and Davis 1975)

    (Royce 1988)

    Speth, J. D., and D. D. Davis. 1975. Seasonal variability in early hominid predation. Paper presented at symposium, Archeology in Anthropology: Broadening Subject Matter. Seventy-fourth annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association.

    Royce, John C. 1988. Finches of Du Page County. Paper read at 22d Annual Conference on Practical Bird Watching, 24-26 May, at Midland University, Flat Prairie, Illinois.

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  • Unpublished Duplicated Material
    16.134
    See discussion at 15.275.

    (U.S. Educational Foundation for Egypt 1951, 28)

    (Downes 1974, 12)

    (Cooke n.d., 4-7)

    United States Educational Foundation for Egypt. 1951. Annual program proposal, 1952-53. U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C. Mimeographed.

    Downs, W. J. 1974. Systematic grammar and structural sentence relatedness. London School of Economics. Duplicated.

    Cooke, H. B. S. n.d. South African Pleistocene mammals in the University of California Collections. Typescript.

    Citations to working papers are as follows:

    (Frishberg and Gough 1974)

    Frishberg, Nancy, and Bonnie Gough. 1974. Time on our hands. Working paper, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, Calif.

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  • Reports in Pamphlet Form
    16.187
    See discussion at 15.399.

    (Minister of Science 1961, 58)

    United Kingdom. Office of the Minister of Science. 1961. Committee on Management and Control of Research. Report.

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  • Unpublished Documents
    16.189
    As indicated in the discussion at 15.402-6, citing unpublished government documents of the United Kingdom is a complex and irregular affair. The difficulties are compounded by the requirements of the author-date documentation system, which perhaps render that system less suitable to such documents.

    16.190
    One solution to the difficulties is to describe the item in running text; list the depository in parentheses, in abbreviated form; and supply the details in the reference list.

    "Clarendon, in a letter to Lumley dated 16 January 1869 (PRO), observed that . . ."

    "Henry Elsynge, the presumed author of 'The moderne forme of the Parliaments of England' (BL n.d.), maintains in that manuscript . . ."

    United Kingdom. Public Record Office (PRO). 1869. Foreign Office, Belgium/133, no. 6. Clarendon to Lumley, 16 January.

    United Kingdom. British Library (BL). n.d. [Henry Elsynge]. The moderne forme of the Parliaments of England. Addit. MSS 26645.

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  • Parliament and Executive Departments
    16.193

    (Commons 1951, 335-37)

    (Senate 1970, 2:25)

    (Commons 1956, 8-21)

    (Sessional Papers 1917, xiii)

    (Dept. Ext. Affairs 1953, 26-31)

    Canada. House of Commons. 1951. Debates, 2-6 October.

    Canada. Senate. 1970. Special Committee on the Mass Media. Report. 3 vols. Ottawa.

    Canada. House of Commons. 1956. Standing Committee on External Affairs. Minutes of proceedings and evidence, no. 4, 24 April.

    Canada. Sessional Papers. 1917. No. 20g. Report of the royal commission to enquire into railways and transportation in Canada.

    Canada. Department of External Affairs. 1953. Statements and speeches, 53/30, 11 June.

    Note that in the author-date system, for brevity and ease of location, Sessional Papers is paired with the date and, in the reference list, precedes the title of the report.

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  • Unpublished Records
    16.196
    Because dates do not appear in references to unpublished records housed in the Public Archives of Canada, a variation from the usual author-date style is necessary in citations to these items. The text reference begins with the archive, usually abbreviated PAC; this is followed, without punctuation, by an abbreviation for the name of the record group (PCOR for Privy Council Oilice Records, for example). The citation should then continue with whatever additional information is required to locate the full documentation in the reference list. If items from only one volume are cited, only the page reference need be added. If more than one volume is cited, the volume number should also appear. If more than one series of the record group is involved, the series number must also be added.
    • (PAC PCOR, 147-49)
    • (PAC PCOR, 1477:147-49)
    • (PAC PCOR, ser. 1, 1477:147-49)

    16.197
    In the reference list entry, the abbreviation of the name of the record group should follow, in parentheses, the full name of the group. Series and volume numbers follow the record group.

    Canada. Public Archives of Canada. Privy Council Office Records (PCOR). Ser. 1, vol. 1477.

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International Bodies
  • Material Obtained Through Loose-Leaf, Computer, or InformationServices
    16.207
    For a background discussion see 15.421-22.

    (CCH 1990, 20, 050.15)

    (Kupisch 1983)

    (Flax et al. 1979)

    (Beevis 1983)

    Commerce Clearing House (CCH). 1990 standard federal tax reports. Chicago: Commerce Clearing House.

    Kupisch, Susan J. 1983. Stepping in. Paper presented as part of the symposium Disrupted and Reorganized Families at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta, Ga., 23-26 March. DIALOG, ERIC, ED 233276.

    Flax, Rosabel, et al. 1979. Guidelines for teaching mathematics K-12. Topeka: Kansas State Department of Education, Topeka Division of Education Services, June. 85, DIALOG, ERIC, ED 178312.

    Beevis, D. 1983. Ergonomist's role in the weapon system development process in Canada. Downsview, Ont.: Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine. 8, NTIS, AD-A145 5713/2. Microfiche.

    In the second reference list entry above, the name of the symposium has been given headline capitalization to set it off from the surrounding text.

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  • Computer Programs and Electronic Documents

    Programs, or Software

    16.208
    References to computer software (programs, packages, languages, systems, and the like) are best made in running text. The location and identity of the supplier may be reserved for the full citation in the reference list. The following examples illustrate typical reference list entries for computer software. Because dates are not involved, the entries are identical to those for humanities-style bibliographies (see also the discussion at 15.423).

    FORTRAN H-extended Version [or Ver.] 2.3. IBM, White Plains, N.Y.

    Houston Automatic Spooling Priority II Ver. 4.0. IBM, White Plains, N.Y.

    International Mathematical Subroutine Library Edition 8 (IMSL 8). International Mathematical Subroutine Library, Inc., Houston, Tex.

    Operating System/Virtual Storage Rel. 1.7 (OS/VS 1.7). IBM, White Plains, N.Y.

    Statistical Package for the Social Sciences Level M Ver. 8 (SPSS Lev. M 8.1). SPSS, Chicago.

    Lotus 1-2-3 Rel. 2. Lotus Development Corporation, Cambridge. Mass.

    Documents

    16.209
    See discussion at 15.424. Note that the year the document is cited is used in lieu of the date of publication.

    ("AIDS" 1990, 2)

    (Belle de jour 1990)

    (Moore 1990)

    ("Jericho's Walls" 1990)

    (Kulikowski 1989)

    "AIDS." See "Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome."

    "Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome." 1990. In MESH vocabulary file [database online]. Bethesda, Md.: National Library of Medicine, 1990 [cited 3 October 1990]. Identifier no. D000163. [49 lines.]

    Belle de jour. 1990. In Magill's Survey of the Cinema [database online]. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, ca. 1989-[cited 1 January 1990]. Accession no. 50053. P. 2 of 4. Available from DIALOG Information Services, Inc., Palo Alto, Calif.

    Moore, Rich. 1990. "Compaq Computer: COMPAQ Joins the Fortune 500 Faster Than Any Company in History." In Businesswire [database online]. San Francisco: Business Wire, 1986- [updated 9 April 1986; cited 10 March 1990]. Accession no. 000782; NO = BW420.5 screens. Available from DIALOG Information Services, Inc., Palo Alto, Calif.

    "Jericho's Walls." 1990. In History Log9008 [electronic bulletin board]. .I. 27 August 1990- [cited 15 December 1990]. Available from listserv @ FINHUTC.BITNET.

    Kulikowski, Stan. 1989. "Readability Formula." In NL-KR (Digest vol. 5, no. 10) [electronic bulletin beard]. Rochester, N.Y., 1988 [cited 31 January 1989]. Available from nl-kr @ cs.rochester, edu; INTERNET.

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