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First reference: Book

Single author, 1st edition:

4. Donald N. McCloskey, Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain: Essays in Historical Economics (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1981), 54.

Single author, later edition

5. Donald N. McCloskey, The Applied Theory of Price, 2nd ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1985), 24.

2 or 3 authors

6. Donald A. Lloyd and Harry R. Warfel, American English and Its Cultural Setting (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956), 12.

[If there is a third author, follow this example: James Smith, Donald Marc, and Jack Jones.]

More than 3 authors

7. Martin Greenberger et al., eds., Networks for Research and Education: Sharing of Computer and InformationResources Nationwide (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1974), 50.

Unknown author

8. College Bound Seniors (Princeton: College Board Publications, 1979), 1.

Author and an editor or translator

9. Helmut Thielicke, Man in God's World, trans. and ed. John W. Doberstein (New York: Harper and Row, 1963), 12.

Reprint

10. Gunnar Myrdal, Population: A Problem for Democracy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1940; reprint, Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1956), 9.

Anthology

11. Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, ed. E. de Selincourt and H. Darbishire, 2nd ed., vol. 2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952), 10.

Chapter in an edited collection

12. Ernest Kaiser, "The Literature of Harlem," in Harlem: A Community in Transition, ed. J. H. Clarke (New York: Citadel Press, 1964), 64.