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Format:
Author's Last name, First name. "Title of Page in Quotes." Title of Website in Italics, Publication date, URL.
Example:
Shiva, Vandana. "Bioethics: A Third World Issue." Native Web, 2 Dec. 2015, https://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/shiva.html.
In-text citation (Author's last name):
(Shiva)
Format:
"Title of Page in Quotes." Title of Website in Italics, Publication date, URL.
Example:
"Bioethics: A Third World Issue." Native Web, 2 Dec. 2015, https://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/shiva.html.
In-text citation ("First words of title in quotes"):
("Bioethics")
Format:
"Title of Page in Quotes." Title of Website in Italics, URL. Access date.
Example:
"Bioethics: A Third World Issue." Native Web, https://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/shiva.html. Accessed 24 Feb. 2018.
In-text citation ("First words of title in quotes"):
("Bioethics")
Format:
Author's Last name, First name. "Title of Article in Quotes." Journal/Magazine/Newspaper/Source Title in Italics, volume if available, issue number if available, Publication date, Pages if available. Database Name in Italics, URL.
Example:
Guarzano, Katherine. "The Power of One: Citizen Suits in the Fight Against Global Warming." Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review, vol. 4, issue 5, 14 Mar. 2015, Proquest, https://www.bcealr.com/powerofone.html.
In-text citation (Author's last name space page number):
(Guarzano 146).
NOTE: If page numbers are not available for the in-text citation, do not include them. For example: (Guarzano).
Format:
Author's Last name, First name. "Video Title in Quotes." Title of Website in Italics, uploaded by Username (if applicable), Date uploaded, URL.
Example:
CineFix. "Elf Recut as a Thriller." Youtube, uploaded by CineFix, 24 Dec. 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkwdYSn3Uws.
In-text citation (Author's last name):
(CineFix)
Format:
Author's Last name, First name. Book Title in Italics. Publisher, Publication year.
Example:
Wood, James. How Fiction Works. Farrar, 2008.
In-text citation (Author's last name space page number):
(Wood 47)
Format:
Author's Last name, First name and second author's First name Last name. Book Title in Italics. Publisher, Publication year.
Example:
Wood, James and Patrick Swayze. How Fiction Works. Farrar, 2008.
In-text citation (Author's last name and Author's last name space page number):
(Wood and Swayze 47)
Format:
Author's Last name, First name, et al. Book Title in Italics. Publisher, Publication year.
Example:
Wood, James, et al. How Fiction Works. Farrar, 2008.
In-text citation: (Author's last name et al. space page number):
(Wood et al. 47)
Format:
Author's Last name, First name. "Title of Essay/Story/Poem in Quotes." Book Title in Italics, edited by First name Last name, Publisher, Publication year, Pages.
Example:
Dewar, James. "The Cultural Consequences of Printing and the Internet." Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies After Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, edited by Sabrina Alcorn, University of Massachusetts Press, 2017, pp 365-77.
In-text citation (Author's last name space page number):
(Dewar 365)
Format:
Author's Last name, First name. Book Title in Italics. Edition number, volume number. Publisher, Publication year.
Example:
Gilman, Frank. Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance. 15th ed., vol. 4, Ferguson's, 2013.
In-text example (Author's last name space page number):
(Gilman 80)
NOTE: If the book only has an editor and not an author, add ", editor" to the author's first name. For example:
Gilman, Frank, editor. Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance. 15th ed., vol. 4, Ferguson's, 2013.
Format:
Author's Last name, First name. eBook Title in Italics, Publication year. Website or Database Name in Italics, URL or DOI.
Example:
Powell, Kerry. Women and Victorian Theatre, 1997. EBSCOHost. https://exproxy.cpcc.edu/login?url+http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlek&AN=3771
In-text citation (Author's last name space page number):
(Powell 73)
Format:
Author's Last name, First name. Presentation Title in Italics. Brightspace, uploaded by Author's Last name, Date of PowerPoint presentation, https://brightspace.cpcc.edu. Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.
Example:
Smith, John. Introduction to Biology. Brightspace, uploaded by Smith, 15 Oct. 2023, https://brightspace.cpcc.edu. Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.
In-text citation (Author's last name space slide number):
(Smith, slide 4)
Format:
Last name, First name of Interviewee. Personal Interview, Date.
Example:
Smith, Becky. Personal Interview. 1 Dec. 2011.
In-text citation (Interviewee last name):
(Smith)
Format:
@username. "Entire post." Title of Website in Italics, Date posted, Time posted, URL.
Example:
@persiankiwi. "We have a report of large street battles in east & west of Teheran now - #iranelection." Twitter, 23 June 2009, 11:15 a.m., https://twitter.com/persiankiwi/status/2298106072.
In-text citation (@username):
(@persiankiwi)
Format:
Sender's Last name, First name. "Subject Line in Quotes." Received by First name, Last name, Date of email.
Example:
Boyle, Anthony T. "Re: Utopia." Received by Daniel J. Cahill, 21 June 1999.
In-text citation (Sender's last name):
(Boyle)
