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Book - One Author

Farwell, Byron. Over There: The United States in the Great War. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999.

Book - Two Authors

Charlton, Michael and Anthony Moncrieff. Many Reasons Why: The American Involvement in Vietnam. New York: Hill and Wang, 1978.

Book – Three or more Authors

Wheal, Elizabeth Anne, et al. A Dictionary of the Second World War. New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1989.

Book – with an Editor

Haralson, Eric L., ed. Encyclopedia of American Poetry. Chicago, Illinois: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001.

Book – No Author or Editor

The Beatles Anthology. San Francisco, California: Chronicle Books, 2000.

Magazine Article with Author

Wypijewski, JoAnn. "This is only a test: Missile defense makes its mark in the Marshall Islands." Harper’s Magazine Dec. 2001: 41-51.

Magazine Article with No Author

"Hostages Haunt Carter to the End." U.S. News and World Reports 2 February 1981: 7.

Encyclopedia

Leet, L. Don.  "Earthquakes." Encyclopedia Americana. 2001 ed.

Multi-Volume Set with Editor

Magill, Frank, ed. Dictionary of World Biography. 10 vols. Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 1999. Vol. 6.

Multi-Volume Set with Author and Editor

Morehouse, Susan Perry. "Emily Dickinson." Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Ed. Anne Commire. 17 vols. Detroit, Michigan: Yorkin Publications, 1999. Vol. 4.

Electronic Databases

"Henson, Jim." Current Biography. H.W. Wilson Company, 1977. WilsonWeb. Online.  http://vweb.hwwilsonweb.com.

Magazine Articles from Online Database

Perry, Patrick. "Michael J. Fox’s challenging new role." Saturday Evening Post Sept./Oct. 2000: 38+. ProQuest. 15 Sept. 2002. <http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb>.

Web Site with Author

Williams, David R. "Asteroid fact sheet." Asteroids and Comets. Sept. 2, 2002. National Space Science Data Center. Accessed October 22, 2003. <http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/asteroidfact.html>

Web Site with No Author

Interactive Shakespeare Project. College of the Holy Cross, Worcester. Accessed October 15, 2003. <http://www.holycross.edu/departments/theatre/projects/isp/>

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