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Citation Guide: How to cite UNPUBLISHED SOURCES

A guide for navigating various citation styles in order to create citations for resources cited in research papers.

Theses and Dissertations

Note:
      Note number. Author First Last Name, “Title” (Type of dissertation, Location of Publisher, Year of Pub.), pages cited, URL or database (if online).

Sample Note:

      43. Afrah Daaimah Richmond, “Unmasking the Boston Brahmin: Race and Liberalism in the Long Struggle for Reform at Harvard and Radcliff, 1945-1990” (PhD diss., New York University, 2011), 211-12, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Bibliography:

Author Last, First Name. “Title.” Type of Dissertation, Location of Publisher, Year of Pub. URL or database (if online).

Sample Citation:

Culcasi, Karen Leigh. “Cartographic Representations of Kurdistan in the Print Media.” Master’s Thesis, Syracuse University, 2003.

Lectures or Papers presented at a meeting

Note:

Note number. Author First Last Name, “Title” (Sponsor, Location, Year). URL or database (if online).

Sample Note:

43. Irineu de Carvalho Filho and Renato P. Colistete, “Education Performance: Was it All Determined 100 Years Ago? Evidence from Sao Paulo, Brazil” (Paper presented at the 70th annual meeting of the Economic History Association, Evanston, IL, September 24-26, 2010). http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/24494/1/MPRA_paper_24494.pdf.

Bibliograpyy:

Author Last, First Name. “Title of Speech or lecture.” Sponsor, Location, Year. URL or database (if online).

Sample Citation:

Crane, Gregory R. “Contextualizing Early Modern Religion in a Digital World.” Lecture, Newberry Library, Chicago, September 16, 2011.

Carvalho Filho, Irineu de, and Renato P. Colistete. “Education Performance: Was it All Determined 100 Years Ago? Evidence from Sao Paulo, Brazil.” Paper presented at the 70th annual meeting of the Economic History Association, Evanston, IL, September 24-26, 2010. http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/24494/1/MPRA_paper_24494.pdf.