Humanities: Print Sources

Articles With Volume and Issue Number

Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. "The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations

         between Women in Nineteenth-Century America." Signs,  vol. 1, no. 1,  Autumn 1975, pp. 1-30.

    

Jensen, Joan M., and Darlis A. Miller. "The Gentle Tamers Revisited: New

         Approaches to the History of Women in the American West." Pacific

         Historical Review, vol. 49, no. 2, May 1980, pp. 173-213.

 

Article With Only Issue Number

Michaels, Walter Benn. "An American Tragedy, or the Promise of American Life."

         Representations, no. 25, Winter 1989, pp. 71-98.

 

With One Author

 

Hodes, Martha Elizabeth. The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and

      War in the Nineteenth-Century. Norton, 2006.

 

With Two Authors

 

Peavy, Linda S., and Ursula Smith. Women in Waiting in the Western Movement:

     Life on the Home Frontier.  U of Oklahoma P, 1994.

 

With Three or More Authors

 

Brodsky, Phyllis L., et al. The Control of Childbirth: Women Versus Medicine

     Through the Ages. McFarland & Co., 2008.

 

With an Editor & Edition Statement

 

Gordon, Michael, editor. The American Family in Social-Historical Perspective.

     2nd ed., St. Martin’s Press, 1978.

 

 

Please note:

 

New Rules for abbreviation of publishers’ names: 

Omit –

articles (A, An, The)

business abbreviations (Co., Corp., Inc.)

descriptive terms (Books, House, Press, Publishers)

                       

Keep a university press’s P (for Press)

                        Use standard MLA abbreviations for other words,

                        like University

 

Examples:

                        W.W. Norton

                        University of Oklahoma Press

                        McFarland & Co.

                        St. Martin’s Press

With an Author

Smith, John. “Women Gather for Education.” Helena Independent 4 Dec. 1889: 1.

      Print.

 

Without an Author

 

“Montana: Same Sex Parental Rights.” New York Times 1 Oct. 2008, late ed.:

       A8. Print.

Article Published Monthly

Barsanti, Amy B. “A Collage of Western Women.” OAH Magazine of History

Nov. 2005: 41-43. Print.

Article Published Weekly

Jason, Sonya. “From Gunpowder Girl to Working Women.” Newsweek

23 Feb. 2004: 20. Print.

Article Without an Author

“Celebrate Women’s History Month.” Reading Today Feb. 2007: 48. Print.

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