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CITING INTERNET SITES:

It is necessary to list your date of access because web postings are often updated, and information available at one date may no longer be available later. Note that page numbers are not required for online sources.

Creator's name (if given). "Title of work." Web Page Title. Date

of posting. Institution or organization. Date of access <URL

network address>.

Griffin, Pat." Hula, Hawaii's Art and Soul." Aloha from Hawaii.

1996. AFH, Inc. 15 January 2004 <http://www.aloha-hawaii.com/

hawaii_magazine/hula/index.shtml>.

Felluga, Dino. Undergraduate Guide to Literary Theory. 17 Dec. 1999.

Purdue University. 15 January 2004 <http://omni.cc.purdue.edu%

7Efelluga/theory2.html>.

Li, Rong-Chang. English as a Second Language. 10/15/2001. 15 January

2004 <http://www.rong-chang.com/>.

"Dinosaurs in Hawaii." Dinosaurs! October 26, 1996. Honolulu

Community College. 15 January 2004 <http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/

dinos/dinos.1.html>.

"Birches." Poets.org. 2006. The Academy of American Poets. 19

October 2006. <http://www.poets.org/index.php>.

CITING MAGNOLIA DATABASES:

CITING EBSCOhost:

Tator, Charles, James D. Carson, and Robert Cushman. "Hockey

injuries of the spine in Canada, 1966- 1996." CMAJ: Canadian

Medical Association Journal.162. 03/21/2000, 787. Academic

Search Elite. EBSCOhost. MAGNOLIA. 19 October 2006

<http://nt.library.msstate.edu/magnolia/>.

"Robert Frost." Dictionary of World Biography: The 20^th Century.

1999. Literary Reference Center. MAGNOLIA. 19 October 2006

<http://nt.library.msstate.edu/magnolia/>.

CITING GROLIER PRODUCTS:

Article with Author:

Otto, David A., "Biome." Encyclopedia Americana Online. Scholastic

Library Publishing, Inc., 2006. MAGNOLIA. 6 March 2006

<http://nt.library.msstate.edu/magnolia/>.

Article without Author:

"Jumping mouse." Encyclopedia Americana Online. Scholastic Library

Publishing, Inc., 2003. MAGNOLIA. 15 January 2004

<http://nt.library.msstate.edu/magnolia/>.

CITING BOOKS:

Take the title from the title page, not the cover.

No Author:

People of Long Ago. Milwaukee: Rourke Publishers, 1986.

One Author:

Borg, Jim. Tigers of the Sea: Hawaii's Deadly Sharks. Honolulu: Mutual,

1993.

Two Authors:

Landre, Rick, and Dee Porter. Gangs: A_Handbook for Community Awareness.

New York: Facts on File, 1997.

Daconta, Michael C., et al. Java 1.2 and JavaScript for C and C++

Programmers. New York: Wiley, 1998.

Editor or Compiler:

Fitzgerald, Terence J., ed. Police in Society. New York: H.W. Wilson, 2000.

By a Corporation:

American Allergy Association. Allergies in Children. New York: Random, 1998.

CITING ENCYCLOPEDIAS & REFERENCE BOOKS:

Stringer, Gary. "Defoe, Daniel." The World Book Encyclopedia. 2002 ed.

"Jamaica." Encyclopedia Britannica. 1999 ed.

"Refrigeration." The New Illustrated Science and Invention

Encyclopedia. Ed. Donald Clarke. 28 vols. Westport: H.S. Stuttman, 1989.

Hosick, Howard L. "Cloning." Magill's Medical Guide. Ed. Tracy Irons-Georges.

Rev. ed. 3 vols. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1998.

CITING MULTIVOLUME SETS:

Format:

Author or Editor. Title of Set. Total number of vols. City of

Publication: Publisher, Year.

	Use this format when citing two or more volumes of a multivolume set.
	Reference to specific volumes and page numbers belong in the text of your paper (e.g. 4: 149-53 means volume 4, pages 149-153), not in the Works Cited.

Jaffe, Jerome H., ed. Encyclopedia of Drugs and Alcohol. 4 vols. New

York: Macmillan, 1995.

SPECIAL BOOKS:

Anthology or Multi-volume set:

"Fromm, Erich 1900-1980." Contemporary Authors. Vol. 29. New Revision Series.

Detroit: Gale, 1990. 55 vols. to date. 1981- .

Atlas:

Atlas of the World. New York: Oxford UP, 1992. Munro, David, ed.

Dictionary:

"Hard Rock." The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. 3^rd ed.

Boston: Houghton, 1993.

Poem, Play, or Short Story from an Anthology:

Chekhov, Anton. The Cherry Orchard. Trans. Avraham Yarmolinsky. Norton Anthology

of World Masterpieces. Ed. Maynard Mack. 4^th ed. Vol. 2. New York: Norton,

1979. 1192-1230. 2 vols.

Pamphlet:

Office of the Dean of Students. Resources for Success: Learning Disabilities_and

Attention Deficit Disorders. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University, 2000.

CITING CD-ROMs:

Format:

Name of author if given, Title of the part of the work, if relevant (underlined

or in quotation marks), title of the product (Underlined), Edition, release

or version (if relevant), Publication medium (CD-ROM), City of publication,

Name of publisher, Year of publication.

The CIA World Factbook. CD-ROM. Minneapolis: Quantra, 1992.

Where in the World if Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe ed. CD-ROM. Novato: Broderbund,

1992.

The Oxford English Dictionary. 2^nd ed. CD-ROM. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1992.

CITING VIDEOTAPES, DVDs, LASERDISCS:

Format:

Title. Director, Producer, and/or Writers. Medium. Distributor, Year.

Monet: Legacy of Light. Writ., dir., and prod. by Michael Miller.

Videocassette. WBGH Boston, 1989.

CITING INTERVIEWS:

Format:

Person Interviewed. Type of interview (personal or telephone). Date.

Mink, Patsy T. Telephone interview. 21 October 2000.

For a broadcast or published interview, add descriptive and bibliographic information.

Waihee, John. Interview with Leslie Wilcox. Channel 2 News. FOX. KHON, Honolulu.

7 Nov. 2000.

CITING TELEVISION PROGRAMS:

Format:

"Title of Episode or Segment." Credit (Performer or author). Title of Program.

Name of Network. Call letters (if any), City of Local Station (if

any).Broadcast Date.

"Designing Woman." Rept. by Maria Shriver. Dateline. NBC. KHNL, Honolulu. 15

Mar. 1998.

"Hurricane." Raging Planet. Discovery Channel. 21 Mar. 1998.

"Secrets of Lost Empires." Nova. PBS. KHET, Honolulu. 26 May 1998.

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