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Normal print source: after quotation, paraphrase, or summary, enclose author's
name and page number in parenthesis: "----" (Murphy 3).
Note: the citation is never part of the quote but always part of the sentence or clause.
If you have more than one consecutive citation from the same print source, use
only the page number after the first citation: (53).
Online source when there are no pages or separate parts to the source: include only
the author's name in the parenthesis: (Murphy).
If you do not have an author for the source, use the title: ("The War in Vietnam").
Online source with pages or distinct parts: include the author's name and designate the part:
(Murphy "Introduction").
Print source:
Author's last name, first name. Title of Book. City: Publisher, date of publication.
Author's last name, first name. "Title of article." Title of Book. City:
Publisher, date of publication. pages. [no p, pg, or comma here, only page #]
Author's last name, first name. "Document Title." Title of Website. Date of Internet Publication. Date of access <URL>.
Harris, Jonathan G. "The Return of the Witch Hunts." Witchhunt Infomation Page. 28 May 1996. 2 June 2000. <http://liquid2-sun.mit.edu/fells.short.html>.
Shade, Leslie R. "Gender Issues in Computer Networking." 1993. 28 May 1997. <http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/sorokin/women/lrs.html>.
"The My Lai Massacre." The American War Library. 1996. 15 December 2000. <http://www.familyville.com/warlibrary/warlib.6v.shtml>.
Research and Documentation Online : http://www.bedfordbooks.com/hacker/resdoc/
St. Martin's Handbook: http://kestrel.tamucc.edu/st.martins/
MLA form: http://www.middlebury.edu/~lib/citing.mla.html