Multivolume work

In-text citation

Isak Dinesen describes the exhilaration she felt when recalling her time in the mountains of Kenya:

In the middle of the day the air was alive over the land, like a flame burning; it scintillated, waved and shone like running water, mirrored and doubled all objects, and created great Fata Morgana [mirages]. Up in this high air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. (2: 163)

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  • If your paper cites more than one volume of a multivolume work, indicate in the parentheses the volume you are referring to, followed by a colon and the page number.

  • If your paper cites only one volume of a multivolume work, you will include the volume number in the list of works cited and will not need to include it in the parentheses.

  • A quotation of more than four typed lines is indented from the text one inch. No quotation marks are used, and the parenthetical citation follows the last mark of punctuation.

Works cited entry

Dinesen, Isak. “Out of Africa.” Written by Herself. Ed. Jill Ker Conway. 2 vols. New York: Vintage-Random, 1996. Print.

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