Sample Citations
(grouped by category)
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*These are the bibliography citations for these sources. See the guide above to find footnote versions.
Table of Contents
ABC-Clio, Britannica, or World Book 2
Encyclopedia / Reference Article 3
“Mercantilism.” ABC-Clio American History. Accessed March 10, 2021. americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Topics/Display/1183173?cid=41&sid=1183173.
“Mummy.” Britannica Academic. August 19, 2021.https://academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/mummy/54257.
Mockaitis, Thomas R. “September 11 Terrorist Attacks.” World Book Advanced. 2021. www.worldbookonline.com/advanced/article?id=ar750786
LeFever, Gregory. “Skull Fraud ‘Created’ the Brontosaurus.” Ancient Tides (blog). http://ancient-tides.blogspot.com.
Northrup, Michael. Polaris. New York: Scholastic Press, 2017.
Sandys, Jonathan, and Wallace Henley. God & Churchill: How the Great Leader’s Sense of Divine Destiny Changed His Troubled World and Offers Hope for Ours. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale Momentum, 2015.
Donovan, Josephine. Feminist Theory: The Intellectual Traditions. 4th ed. New York: Continuum, 2012.
Caro, Robert A. The Passage of Power. Vol. 4 of The Years of Lyndon Johnson. New York: Knopf, 2012.
Johnson, Claudia Durst, ed. Race in Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2009.
Walker, Alice, afterword to The Indispensable Zinn: The Essential Writings of the People’s Historian,” by Howard Zinn, 371-76. Edited by Timothy Patrich McCarthy. New York: Free Press, 2012.
Hoenig, John. Garden Variety: The American Tomato from Corporate to Heirloom. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. eBook Academic Collection. http://webbschool.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xna&AN=1628837&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
Schildgen, Bob. “How Do Dogs Affect the Environment.” Sierra 103, no. 6 (2018): 1-3. Health Source - Consumer Edition. http://webbschool.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mat&AN=133142525&site=eds-live.
Porter, David. “Lincoln’s Terms of Peace: Admiral Porter’s Report of the City Point Conference.” Letter. History Reference Center. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=khh&AN=21212792&site=hrc-live.
Hoenig, John. Garden Variety: The American Tomato from Corporate to Heirloom. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. eBook Academic Collection. http://webbschool.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xna&AN=1628837&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
“French Resistance.” In Great Events from History: The Twentieth Century, 1941 - 1970, edited by Robert F. Gorman. Salem, 2008. https://online.salempress.com/articleDetails.do?articleName=GE20b_1651153022.
Wells-Barnett, Ida B. Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All its Phases. 1892. Reprint, Project Gutenberg, 2005. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14975.
“Mercantilism.” ABC-Clio American History. Accessed March 10, 2021. americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Topics/Display/1183173?cid=41&sid=1183173.
Argo. Directed by Ben Affleck. Burbank, CA: Warner Bros. Pictures, 2012.
The Dust Bowl. Directed by Ken Burns. Washington, DC: Public Broadcasting Service, 2012. DVD.
U.S. National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States. 9/11 Commission Report: The Official Report of the 9/11 Commission and Related Publications. By Thomas H. Kean and Lee Hamilton. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 2004. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/index.html.
"Boy Being Measured for Effects of Radiation." Photograph. Smithsonian Primary Sources in US History. https://link.gale.com/apps/portal/UFQLXK702767362/SMPS?u=tel_k_webb&sid=SMPS&xid=f9935fa2.
Treidler, Adolph. “For Every Fighter A Woman Worker: Care For Her Through The YWCA.” Digital Public Library of America, 1917. https://dp.la/item/8fa6d13228bc667fe8a3288b85290a9a.
Colton, J.H. “Colton’s Map of the Southern States.” Library of Congress, 1861. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3860.cw0006500.
Schildgen, Bob. “How Do Dogs Affect the Environment.” Sierra 103, no. 6 (2018): 1-3. Health Source - Consumer Edition. http://webbschool.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mat&AN=133142525&site=eds-live.
Hunt, Linda. “Project Paperclip, Designed To Give America's Military A Scientific Advantage, Was At One Crucial Time Run By A Spy.” Military History 14, no. 1 (April 1997): 14. History Reference Center. http://search.ebscohost.com.webbschool.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=khh&AN=9703100413&site=hrc-live.
Foisy, Catherine. “Preparing the Quebec Church for Vatican II: Missionary Lessons from Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1945-1962.” Historical Studies 78 (2012): 7-26.
“Ghosts from the Past.” TIME Magazine, October 29, 1984, 49. Time Magazine Archive. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=tma&AN=57881158&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
Roosevelt, Eleanor. “The Cold War Logic of the Peace Corps.” The Atlantic Magazine, September 2, 2013, 84–87. The Atlantic Magazine Archive. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ama&AN=132734500&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
Lightman, Alan. “Our place in the Universe: Face to Face with the Infinite.” Harper’s, December 2012, 33-38.
Gallup, George. “General Public Disapproves of Bringing More Nazi Scientists Into United States,” The Knoxville News-Sentinel, January 11, 1947, Newspapers.com. https://www.newspapers.com/image/594141571/?image=594141571&words=&terms=Nazi%20scientist&match=1.
Rubin, Alissa J. “A Pristine Afghan Prison Faces a Murky Future.” New York Times, December 18, 2012.
Grace, Andrew Beck and Chip Brantley. “The Counternarrative.” Episode 3. White Lies. Podcast audio. 2019. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510343/white-lies.
“Ghosts from the Past.” TIME Magazine, October 29, 1984, 49. Time Magazine Archive. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=tma&AN=57881158&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
"Boy Being Measured for Effects of Radiation." Photograph. Smithsonian Primary Sources in US History. https://link.gale.com/apps/portal/UFQLXK702767362/SMPS?u=tel_k_webb&sid=SMPS&xid=f9935fa2.
Treidler, Adolph. “For Every Fighter A Woman Worker: Care For Her Through The YWCA.” Digital Public Library of America, 1917. https://dp.la/item/8fa6d13228bc667fe8a3288b85290a9a.
Colton, J.H. “Colton’s Map of the Southern States.” Library of Congress, 1861. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3860.cw0006500.
Porter, David. “Lincoln’s Terms of Peace: Admiral Porter’s Report of the City Point Conference.” Letter. History Reference Center. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=khh&AN=21212792&site=hrc-live.
Harding, Warren G. “Not Nostrums, but Normalcy.” In Defining Documents in American History: The 1920s (1920-1929), edited by Michael Shally-Jansen, 4. Ipswich, MA: Grey House Publishing, 2014.
Brokaw, Tom. “Global Warming: What You Need to Know.” Discovery Channel, January 23, 2012. http://youtube.com/watch?v=xcVwLrAavyA.
Should We Go to Mars? The Big Think. BBC Worldwide Learning, 2017. Video. From Classroom Video on Demand. 52:04. http://webbschool.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://cvod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=98368&xtid=145441.
"Women and Girls." Refugees International, last modified October 12, 2015. www.refugeesinternational.org/ Women-girls.
Wroble, Lisa A. “Cleopatra VII.” In The Ancient World: Extraordinary People in Extraordinary Societies, edited by Michael Shally-Jansen, 1745-1747. Ipswich: Salem Press, 2017.