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Authored Book
(one or more authors)
Lana, Rachel. 1991. Assumptions of social psychology: A reexamination. Boston: Stronghope Press.

Levin, Jason P., and Allen Smith. 1987. Gossip: The inside scoop. New York: Plenum Press.

Webb, E.J., S. W. Johnson, R. D. Schwartz, and L. Sechrest. 1996. Unobtrusive measures: Nonreactive research in the social sciences. Chicago: Rand-McNally.

Anonymous Works
The Song of the Mio Cid. 1948. Chicago: Seraphim.
Theses, Dissertation / Unpublished Material
King, Andrew J. 1976. Law and and use in Chicago: A pre-history of modern zoning. Ph. D. diss., University of Wisconsin.
Editor / No Author
Aries, Philippe., ed. 1980.  Interpersonal expectations: Theory, research, and applications. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Editor and Author
Moorcock, Michael. 1962. The Souls of Carpathia. Edited by T. S. Eliot. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.
Article (Volume and Issue)
Sommerstein, A. R. 1972. On the so-called definite article in English. Linguistic Inquiry. 3:197-209.
Article in Popular Magazine
Karen, Robert. 1990. Becoming attached to letting go. Atlantic, February, 35-70.
Article in Foreign Language
Saulnier, Verdun L. 1949. Le nombre huit dans la socialization de l'enfant. Biblioteque d’humanisme et Renaissance 11:105-28.
Newspaper
Philadelphia Inquirer. 1990. Editorial, 30 July. Finnonian, Albert. 1990. The Iron Curtain rises. Wilberton Journal, 7 February, final edition.
Chapters or Titled Parts from a Book
Phibbs, Brendan. 1987. Herrlisheim: Diary of a battle. In The other side of time: A combat surgeon in World War II. Boston: Little, Brown.
Multivolume Work
  Wright, Sewall. 1968-78. Evolution and the genetics of populations. 4 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Citations Taken From Secondary Sources
  Zufosky, Louis. 1931. Sincerity and objectification. Poetry 37 (February): 269. Quoted in Bonnie Costello, Marianne Moore: Imaginary possessions (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981), 78.
Paper Read at a Meeting
  Lamberth, J. 1981. Seasonal variability in early hominid predation. Paper presented at symposium, Archeology in Anthropology: Broadening Subject Matter. Seventy-fourth annual meeting of the American Anthropology Association.
Unpublished Manuscript Collections
  House, Edward M. Papers. Yale University Library.
Personal Communications
  Moorcock, Michael. 1999. Conversation with author. Oak Park, I11., 14 April. Baudino, Gail. 2000. Letter to author, 10 January.
Slides and Films
  Mihalyi, Louis J. 1975. Landscapes of Zambia, central Africa. Santa Barbara, Calf.: Visual Education. Slides. The Greek and Roman world. 1977. Chicago: Society for Visual Education. Filmstrip.
General Web site
  Jonathan G. Harris, "The Return of the Witch Hunts," Witchhunt Information Page, 19 April 1997, <http://www.liquid2-sun.mit.edu/fells.short.html>(19 November 1997).
Article in an Electronic Journal
  Tonya Browning, "Embedded Visuals: Student Design in Web Spaces," Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments 3, no. 1 (1997) <http://english.ttu.com> (21 October 1997).
Online Databases
  "Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome." 1990. In MESH vocabulary file [database online]. Bethesda, Md.: National Library of Medicine, 1990 [cited 3 October 1990]. Identifier no. D000163. [49 lines.]