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models for citing primary source in a book

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Footnote

     1 Firstname Lastname, “Title of Primary Source,” in Title of Book, ed. Firstname Lastname, (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication), page number.

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Bibliography

Lastname, Firstname. “Title of Primary Source.” In Title of Book, edited by Firstname Lastname. Place 
     of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. 

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Note

In the footnote, you can use the shorthand "ed." but in the bibliography you should write out "edited by."

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examples for a Primary source in A book 

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Footnote

     1 Quintus Tullius Cicero, “Handbook on Canvassing for the Consulship,” in Rome: Late Republic and Principate, ed. Walter Emil Kaegi Jr. and Peter White, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), 35. 
    2 Cicero, “Canvassing for the Consulship,” 35.

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Bibliography

Cicero, Quintus Tullius. “Handbook on Canvassing for the Consulship.” In Rome: Late Republic and
     Principate, edited by Walter Emil Kaegi Jr. and Peter White. Chicago: University of Chicago 
     Press, 1986. 

 

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