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Responses

I. Citing a FRUS volume:

1. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968 XXXI: South and Central America; Mexico (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2004).

Also acceptable:

1. Dept. of State, FRUS, 1964-1968 XXXI: South and Central America; Mexico (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2004).

When writing on a computer or in professional publishing, we use Italics when citing books and volume titles, and films or movie titles as well.

But when writing them out by hand or when using old-school typewriters, we underline these titles.

1. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968 XXXI: South and Central America; Mexico (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2004).

Also acceptable:

1. Dept. of State, FRUS, 1964-1968 XXXI: South and Central America; Mexico (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2004).

II. Citing a document within a FRUS volume:

2. Kissinger to Nixon, "Coup in Chile -- Situation Report," 11 September 1973. Reprinted in Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976 XXI: Chile, 1969-1973 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2014), document 347.

· In this case, we only see the first page of this document. It only lists the last name of the author -- Kissinger -- and the last name of the recipient -- Nixon. If you had the entire volume, as you will in your research papers, you must consult the Persons section in the front of the volume to get their full names: Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon.

3. Memorandum of Conversation, "US-Argentine Relations; Grain Sales; Soviet Politics (C)," 6 May 1980. Reprinted in Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977-1980 XXIV: South America; Latin America Region (Washington, DC: Government Publishing Office, 2018), document 108.

· In this case, we only see the first page of this document. In your research, you might find the author's last name in the footnote identifying the original source, or at the end of the document. In some cases, you will not find the author's name at all. In cases like that, just list everything you know about the document. Here we know that it's a memo, it has a title in the Subject line, it has a date, and it has a document number. That will suffice.

III. Short citations:

This section does not apply to the quiz. It only applies to your research papers. The only possible answers to the quiz remain the ones in the two sections, above.

Sometimes you will find a document that you will need to cite several times in your papers. This is normal, as researchers sometimes identify documents of such import that they refer to them more than once.

If this happens in your research, you must write the full citation the first time a document appears in your paper.

But you can (not must) write a short citation when it appears in your paper again. Short cites look like this:

2. Kissinger to Nixon, "Coup in Chile -- Situation Report," 11 September 1973.

3. Memorandum of Conversation, "US-Argentine Relations: Grain Sales; Soviet Politics (C)," 6 May 1980.

That is, you do not need to cite the volume in short cites. Your readers can refer back to the full cite, if necessary.

Let's keep it simple in this research project and stick to the above citations only. Do not use Ibid. in this course.

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