A Sample Bibliography Page

A BOOK BY A SINGLE AUTHOR:

 Fairbanks, Carol. Prairie Women: Images in American and
      Canadian Fiction. (New Haven: Yale UP, 1986)32.

 AN ANTHOLOGY OR COMPILATION:

 Nichols, Fred J., ed. and trans., An Anthology of Neo-Latin Poetry.
      (New Haven: Yale UP, 1979) vii-viii.

 A BOOK BY MULTIPLE AUTHORS:

 Berry, Jason. Jonathan Foose, and Tad Jones, Up from the Cradle:
      New Orleans Music since World War II. (Athens: U of Georgia 
      Press) 1986)52-57

 A WORK IN AN ANTHOLOGY:

 Lazard, Naomi. "In Answer to Your Query," The Norton Book of
      Light Verse, ed. Russell Baker (New York: Norton, 1986) 52.

 AN INTRODUCTION, PREFACE, FOREWORD OR AFTERWORD:

 Johnson, Edgar, afterword.David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens 
      (New York: Signet-NAL, 1962) 875.

 A MULTI-VOLUME WORK:

 Schlesinger, Arthur M., gen. ed.,History of U.S. Political Parties
      vol. 4 (New York: Chelsea, 1973).

 AN "EDITION":

 Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. F.N. 
      Robinson, 2nd ed. (Boston: Houghton, 1957) 545. 

A TRANSLATION:

 von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Faust.trans. Walter Arndt, ed. Cyrus
      Hamlin (New York: Norton, 1976) 157. 

A RE-PUBLISHED BOOK:

 Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. (1982; New York: Pocket, 1985)
      209-12. 

AN ARTICLE FROM A NEWSPAPER:

 Fuerbringer, Jonathan. "Budgetary Rhythms," New York Times
      20 Mar. 1987, late ed.: A8. Wheeler, David. 



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