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models for citing an encyclopedia or reference article (print)

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Footnote

      1 Firstname Lastname, “Title of Article,” in Title of Reference Work, ed. Firstname Lastname, Vol. Number (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication), page number.

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Bibliography

Lastname, Firstname. “Title of Article.” In Title of Reference Work, edited by Firstname 
     Lastname. Vol. Number. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. 

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Note

When citing an article from a reference work that is unsigned, include the title of the article in quotation marks; the title of the book in italics; the editor, edition, volume number (or, if volume number is not available, total number of volumes); the publication information (place: publisher, year); the page numbers. Start with the author when the article is signed. If you are citing an alphabetically-arranged encyclopedia, dictionary or other reference work, use the abbreviation "s.v." (sub verbo, "under the word") in the footnote, not the volume and page number.

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examples for an encyclopedia or reference article (print)

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Footnote

     1 Jane Lancaster, “Domesticity and the Ideology of Separate Spheres,” in Encyclopedia of Women in American History, ed. Eileen K. Cheng, Vol. 2 (Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 2002), 7.
     2 Lancaster, “Domesticity,” 7.

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Bibliography

Lancaster, Jane. “Domesticity and the Ideology of Separate Spheres.” In Encyclopedia of Women in 
    American History. Vol. 2.  Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 2002.  

 

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