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Works Cited page entry: Book
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| Type
of source |
Sample
entry in reference list |
| Book: Single Author |
Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism:
Four Essays. Princeton: Princeton UP,
1957. |
| Another
Work: Same Author |
---. The Secular Scripture. Cambridge:
Harvard UP, 1976. |
| Book: Two Authors |
Howe, Russell Warren, and Sarah Hays Trott.
The Power Peddlers. Garden City:
Doubleday, 1977. |
| More than Three Authors or Editors | Edens, Walter, et al., eds. Teaching
Shakespeare. Princeton: Princeton UP,
1977. |
| Multivolume Work | Freedberg, S. J. Andrea del Sarto. 2 vols.
Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1963. |
| Book: Corporate Author |
National Institute for Dispute Resolution.
Dispute Resolution Resource Directory.
Washington: Natl. Inst. for Dispute
Resolution, 1984. |
| An Edition | Malory, Sir Thomas. King Arthur and his
Knights. Ed. Eugene Vinaver. London:
Oxford UP, 1956. |
| Anthology | Harari, Josue, ed. Textual Strategies. Ithaca:
Cornell UP, 1979. |
| Article or Chapter in Anthology |
Magny, Claude-Edmonde. "Faulkner or Theological
Inversion." Faulkner: A Collection of
Critical Essays. Ed. Robert Penn Warren.
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1966. 66-78. |
| Second or Later Edition | Altick, Richard, and John J. Fenstermaker. The
Art of Literary Research. 4th ed. New York:
Norton, 1993. |
