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Artic
Magazine article with an author Gold, Jeannye. "When Fathers Raise Children
Alone." U.S. News and
           World Report 12 Apr. 1999: 51-52. Print.

Magazine article, no author given "Fathers Confused by Changing Family Roles."

Family Monthly
         Oct. 1980: 5. Print.

++ Full text magazine article from online Box, Scott. "One Father's Unique Perspective."
database to which the library subscribes (first Newsweek 5 Mar.
date is date of publication; second date is day you           1999: 38. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 12
accessed it.) Feb. 2009.

Schorr, Burt, Jr. "States Cracking Down on

Fathers Dodging
          Child-Support Payments." Wall Street
Newspaper article with author
Journal
         26 Jan. 2009, eastern ed.: 33. Print.

Griest, Stephanie. "Program Offers Help for

Young Fathers." Austin
++ Newspaper article from an online database
           American-Statesman 27 Apr. 1999: E4.
to which the library subscribes
InfoTrac Newspapers.
           Web. 21 Apr. 2009.
++ Web newspaper article with author (name Willison, Marilyn Murray. "Family Issues."
of publisher follows title of source, so Washington Post.
Washington Post repeats)          Washington Post, 1 May 2009. Web. 6
May 2009.

Scholarly journal article(volume & issue Larson, Eric. "Cross-Cultural Studies of

numbers go after journal name; if no issue Fatherhood." Journal of
number, just put volume)          Marriage and the Family 11.4
(1998):212-18. Print.

Gerry, Judy O. "Balancing Employment and

++ Scholarly journal article from an online
Fatherhood." Journal
database to which the library subscribes
          of Family Issues 18.6 (1997): 386-402.
(volume & issue numbers go after journal
Academic Search
name)
          Complete. Web. 21 July 2008.
Wornen, Henry. "The Father and His Sons."
Modern Literature 27.3
          (1995): 179-85. Rpt. in Twentieth
Previously published scholarly article
Century Literary Criticism.
reprinted in a collection
           Ed. Michael Stewart. Vol. 89. Detroit:
Gale, 1999. 404-10. Print.
 s
Reference Type: List Example:

Book Book or pamphlet

Book with two editors, not the first edition
++ E-book from online database to which
the library subscribes
Republished book
A work or chapter within a larger work
Work reprinted in a collection and given a
new title
Parke, Ross. Fathers.Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 2000. Print.
McKee, Lorna, and Margaret O’Brien, eds.
The Father Figure. 3rd ed.
         New York: Tavistock, 1982. Print.
Coltrain, Scott. Family Man: Fatherhood,
Housework, and Gender Equity.
         New York: Oxford, 1996. NetLibrary.
Web. 7 Feb. 2009.
Young, Marilyn. Family Life. 1972. New
York: Doubleday, 1999. Print.
Valsiner, Jaan. “The Father’s Role in the
Social Network of a Soviet Child.”
         Role of the Father in Child
Development. Ed. Michael E. Lamb.
          New York: Wiley, 1981. 187-201. Print.
Wooster, Bernard. “Child Support Laws
Should Be Tougher.”
         Family Values: Opposing Viewpoints.
San Diego: Greenhaven,
         1998. 10-14. Print. Rpt. of “Deadbeat
Dads.” Reader’s Digest
         Jan. 1996: 29-34.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES Reference Type: List Example:

Farber, Bernard. “Family.” Encyclopedia

General encyclopedia, signed article
Americana. 2007 ed. Print.

“Fatherhood.” Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ed.

Specialized encyclopedia, no author given T.E. Chen.
         Vol 2. New York: Putnam, 1999. Print.

"Parent." Encyclopaedia Britannica Online.

++ Web encyclopedia, no author given Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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O          Washington: GPO, 2007. Print.

United States. Dept. of Education. Choices for

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Vargas, Carmen. Personal interview. 8

November 2005. Jensen, Alfred.
Interviews (in-person and from an outside
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source)
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O'Neale, Sondra. "Fathers, Gods, and Religion:

Perceptions of
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Baldwin." Critical Essays
library database (give information about
          on James Baldwin. Ed. Fred Stanley and
where originally published first, then about
Nancy Burt. N.p.: Hall,
reprint source)
          1988: 125-43. Rpt. in Contemporary
Literary Criticism.
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When Fathers Desert Families. Prod. Project

Film or video
Hope. Maxwell, 2008. DVD.
Barack Obama Podcast: On Fatherhood.
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          YouTube. Web. 5 May 2009.
++ World Wide Web site (Give the
specific page’s title in quotation marks,
then general title of web site in italics.
Give publisher after that.)
++ World Wide Web page with
"missing" information (Often all the
information asked for in the above
example isn't there. Here there was no
author or overall web site name or
publisher or publication date.)
++ Blackboard material
Sheppard, Lisa. "Father Involvement
Shows Positive Outcomes."
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