Political Science - Assess democracy in the United Kingdom

PSC 2340

British Politics

Spring 2018

Citation instructions for paper assignments

Your paper must have a bibliography page and must use footnotes, not endnotes or parenthetical citations. The examples below largely conform to the rules of the Chicago Manual of Style.

In your paper, you should cite information that comes from a source other than common knowledge.

1. All quotes must be marked with quotation marks.

2. Footnote numbers go outside the punctuation.

3. For the first citation of a particular work, give full bibliographic information. For later citations of the same work, you can use an abbreviated form, such as “Author’s Surname, Title, p. #.”

4. For a citation that is identical to the one immediately before it, use the notation “ibid.” for the footnote. Note that ibid. has a period, because it’s an abbreviation,[footnoteRef:1] and that it is capitalized if it’s the first word in the footnote. [1: It is the abbreviation of ibidem, meaning “in the same place.” ]

5. Footnotes are numbered sequentially. If you’re unclear about what this looks like, see any academic article using footnotes. Do not use the citation numbering form found on Wikipedia; it’s unique to Wikipedia and not appropriate for academic work.

6. In a bibliography, authors are listed alphabetically by surname.

Footnote citation forms

NEWS ARTICLE:

Walter Pincus, “CIA Learned in ’02 that Bin Laden had no Iraq Ties, Report Says,” Washington Post, 15

September 2006.

You do not need to give the URL or date accessed.

BOOK

Laurie Brand, Women, the State, and Political Liberalization: Middle Eastern and North African Experiences (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988), p. 47.

For later citations of the same work, you would write “Brand, pp. 110-112.” If you cite the same work in

the next footnote, you’d write “Ibid., p. 48.”

Chapter in edited volume:

Nathan J. Brown and Eman al-Din Shahin, “Egypt,” in Michelle Penner Angrist, ed., Politics and Society in the Contemporary Middle East. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010.

WEBSITE:

If the item on a website is, for example, a newspaper article or NGO report, cite it in the regular way as an article. It doesn’t matter that you happened to read it on line rather than on paper. If the information is solely web-accessible, then give all available bibliographic information, including author’s name (or name of institution responsible for the item), date the item was written or posted, and date accessed. Give the web address that leads directly to the source you are citing, not a general address like www.whitehouse.gov.