EGL 101 - Kristen Hren - Fall 2024

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Book Citation:
Author's Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Year.

• Bulawayo, NoViolet. We Need New Names. Back Bay Books, 2014. 

Book In-text/Parenthetical Citation:

"Quoted words" (Author's last name page number). no comma!

• "Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised" (Bulawayo 136). 

Book chapter in an Anthology/Edited Collection Citation

Author's last name, First Name. "Title of Essay/chapter." Title of Collection (whole book), edited by Editor's Name(s), Publisher, Year. page number range.

• Cheng, Ying. “History, Imperial Eyes and the ‘mutual Gaze’: Narratives of African-Chinese Encounters in Recent Literary Works,” edited by Moradewun Adejunmobi and Carli Coetzee. Routledge Handbook of African Literature, 1st ed., Routledge, 2019, pp. 92–109, doi:10.4324/9781315229546-7.

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Database Article Citation:

Author's last name, First Name, and Second Author's First Name Last Name. "Title of Article: Subtitle if Any." Name of Journal, vol. Volume Number, no. Issue Number, Date of Publication, pp. First Page Number-Last Page Number. Name of Database, doi:DOI number.

• Moji, Polo Belina. “New Names, Translational Subjectivities: (Dis)location and (Re)naming in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names.” Journal of African Cultural Studies, vol. 27, no. 2, May 2015, pp. 181–90. Academic Search Complete doi:10.1080/13696815.2014.993937.

Article In-text/Parenthetical Citation:
"quoted text" (Author's last name page number).

"Naming is also used to anchor the story in a Zimbabwean location" (Moji 184).

An Article in a Magazine:
Author's last name, First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Periodical, Day Month Year, page number(s).

• Conley, Kevin. "The First Secretary of Climate Change." Popular Science, 4 Mar. 2002, pp. 54-59.
• Bosker, Bianca. "Big in Canada: Throwing Axes for Fun." The Atlantic, Sept. 2016, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/09/canada/492749/.

An Article in a Newspaper:
Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Periodical, Day Month Year, page number(s).

• Martinez, Jennifer. "Anarchists Organize to Spread the Word." The Wall Street Journal, 1 Apr. 2009, p. A8.
• Kamin, Blair. "Architect Jeanne Gang's Vision to Expand from the Skyscraper to the Police Station." Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2015, www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-jeanne-gang-architecture-polis-station-ae-1115-20151113-story.html.

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Website:
Author's last name, First Name. “Title of Web Page.” Title of Website, Publisher, Date published, URL.

• Russell, Mary Doria. “We're All Completely Obsessed with This Award-Winning Novel.” Off the Shelf, 7 Aug. 2019, offtheshelf.com/2019/08/we-are-all-completely-beside-ourselves-by-karen-joy-fowler-review/.

Website In-text Citation:
"quoted/paraphrased text" (Author's last name). If author's last name is not available, use the first section of the citation which could be the website document's title.

• "Sign language could bridge some of the gap."  (Russell)

 
Video Found Online (TED, YouTube etc.) Citation
Full name, username, or name of the company who posted the video. "Title of the video." Title of the website (YouTube, TED), Publisher of the video, Date the video was posted, URL. 

• CrashCourse. “Slavery, Ghosts, and Beloved: Crash Course Literature 214.” YouTube. 19 May 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lQyPgaakY4. 

Online Video In-text Citation with Author: (Last name, timestamp)
Online video in-text citation with no author: ("Title of video," timestamp)

• "...they find ways to humanness anyway" ("Slavery, Ghosts, and Beloved," 3:07)