Print book
Works cited entry
Kovach, Bill, and Tom Rosenstiel. “Journalism as a Public Forum.” The Elements of Journalism. New York: Crown, 2001. Print.
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Place the chapter title, in quotation marks, before the book’s title.
Online book
Works cited entry
Adams, Henry. “Diplomacy.” The Education of Henry Adams. Boston: Houghton, 1918. N. pag. Bartleby.com: Great Books Online. Web. 8 Jan. 2009.
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Place the chapter title, in quotation marks, before the book’s title.
Include print publication information if it is available.
If the online book has no page numbers, use “N. pag.” (for “No pagination”) following the publication information.
End with the name of the Web site on which you found the work, the medium, and your date of access.
Note on using a URL in a works cited entry
If your instructor requires a URL for Web sources, include the URL, enclosed in angle brackets, at the end of the entry.
Shiva, Vandana. “Bioethics: A Third World Issue.” NativeWeb. NativeWeb, n.d. Web. 22 Feb. 2006. <http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/shiva.html>.
When a URL in a works cited entry must be divided at the end of a line, break it after a slash. Do not insert a hyphen.
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