Examples show formatting for footnote/endnote first, followed by bibliographic entry. Examples for different types of resources are given as follows:
With One Author
¹Martha Elizabeth Hodes, The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of
Love, Race,and War in the Nineteenth Century (New York: Norton,
2006), 35.
Hodes, Martha Elizabeth. The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and
War in the Nineteenth-Century. New York: Norton, 2006.
²Linda S. Peavy and Ursula Smith. Women in Waiting in the Western
Movement: Life on the Home Frontier (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
1994), 145.
Peavy, Linda S. and Ursula Smith. Women in Waiting in the Western Movement:
Life on the Home Frontier. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
1994.
With More Than Three Authors
³Phyllis L. Brodsky et al., The Control of Childbirth: Women Versus Medicine
Through the Ages (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2008), 208.
Brodsky, Phyllis L., Mary Smith, Jane Doe, and Agnes McCloskey. The
Control of Childbirth: Women Versus Medicine Through the Ages.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2008.
Please note: If the work has more than thee authors, you may use et al. in the footnote, but all authors must be listed in the Bibliography.
With an Editor & Edition Statement
¹Michael Gordon, ed., The American Family in Social-Historical
Perspective, 2nd ed. (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1978), 245.
Gordon, Michael, ed. The American Family in Social-Historical Perspective.
2nd ed. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1978.
Rules for Place of Publication
If there are two or more cities listed for the publisher, list only the first.
If the city of publication might be unknown to the readers or it might be confused with another city of the same name, include the abbreviation of the state. For example:
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
When the publisher’s name includes the state name, no state abbreviation is needed. For example:
Laramie: University of Wyoming Press
If there is no place of publication, you may use: N.d.
If there is no date, you may use: n.d.
You may use abbreviations, such as Inc., Ltd., and Co.
Journal Article
Jensen, Joan M., and Darlis A. Miller. "The Gentle Tamers Revisited: New ²Joan M. Jensen and Darlis A. Miller, “The Gentle Tamers Revisited:
New Approaches to the History of Women in the American West,"
Approaches to the History of Women in the American West." Pacific
With an Author
¹Smith, John, “Women Gather for Education,” Helena (MT) Independent,
December 4, 1889.
²“Montana: Same Sex Parental Rights,” New York Times, October 1, 2008,
late edition, sec. A.
Please note: An individual newspaper is typically not listed in your bibliography unless you refer to it often or it is central to your argument. If you do list an article in your bibliography, it should look like this:
Smith, John. “Women Gather for Education.” Helena (MT) Independent,
December 4, 1889.
Article Published Monthly
¹Amy B. Barsanti, “A Collage of Western Women,” OAH
Magazine of History, November 2005, 42.
Barsanti, Amy B. “A Collage of Western Women.” OAH Magazine of History,
November 2005, 41-43.
Article Published Weekly
²Sonya Jason, “From Gunpowder Girl to Working Woman,” Newsweek,
February 23, 2004, 20.
Jason, Sonya. “From Gunpowder Girl to Working Woman.” Newsweek,
February 23, 2004, 20-21.
Article Without an Author
³ “Celebrate Women’s History Month,” Reading Today,
February 2007, 48.
"Celebrate Women's History Month." Reading Today, February 2007,
48.