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Bibliographic Format

Bibliographic Format

It is important that bibliographies be standardized and that they contain certain relevant information. Please note that while bibliographic formats are similar to note formats, there are some significant differences. For types of sources not noted here, please see the Chicago Manual of Style, available at the Bata Library information desk or online at The Chicago Manual of Style Online.

For books:

Berger, Carl. The Sense of Power: Studies in the Ideas of Canadian Imperialism, 1867-1914. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970.

For books with multiple authors (note that only the first author is listed surname first):

Bothwell, Robert, Ian Drummond, and John English. Canada, 1900-1945. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987. 

For scholarly articles:

Rawlyk, George A. “‘A Question of Self or no Self’: Some Reflexions on the English-Canadian Identity Within the Context of Canadian-U.S. Relations.” Humanities Association Review 30 (1979): 281-301.

For a single chapter or article within a book:

Winks, Robin W. “The American Exile.” In Ireland and America, 1776- 1976: The American Identity and the Irish Connection, ed. D.N. Doyle and O.D. Edwards, 43-56. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1980.

For modern books of a primary source:

Gregory of Tours. The History of the Franks. Edited and translated by Lewis Thorpe. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974.

For books with a translator:

Camus, Albert. The Plague. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. New York: Knopf, 1948.

For edited volumes:

Fierlbeck, Katherine, ed. The Development of Political Thought in Canada: An Anthology. Toronto: Broadview Press, 2005.

For edited volumes with multiple authors:

Gauvreau, Michael and Ollivier Hubert, eds. Churches and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006.

For second editions of a book:

Cook, Ramsay. The Maple Leaf Forever: Essays on Nationalism and Politics in Canada, 2nd ed. Toronto: Macmillan, 1977.

For newspaper articles:

Cornellier, Louis. “De jeunes historiens des idées.” Le Devoir (18 November 2000): D18. 

For online articles:

Andrew, Sheila. “More Than a Flag of Convenience: Acadian Attitudes to Britain and the British Around the Time of Queen Victoria's 1887 Jubilee.” History of Intellectual Culture 5 (2005). www.ucalgary.ca/hic/website/2005/papers/sa_frameset.html (accessed 1 September 2007).

For archival fonds:

Archives of the Centre de Recherche Lionel-Groulx, Lionel Groulx Fonds.

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