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Reference list: Thomas, Trevor M. 1956. Wales: Land of Mines
and Quarries. Geographical Review 46, no. 1:
59-81. http://www.jstor.org/ (accessed June
30, 2005). Guide for Citing Resources:
In-Text: (Thomas 1956)
Chicago Manual of Style
Electronic Book [17.143] (Author-Date System)
Reference list: Rollin, Bernard E. 1998. The Unheeded Cry:
Animal Consciousness, Animal Pain, and
Science. Ames, Iowa. The Iowa State This guide is based on The Chicago Manual of Style 15th
University Press. http://www.netlibrary.com
ed. (University of Chicago Press, 2003). Examples are
(accessed June 30, 2005).
shown for the newer Author-Date system recommended for
In-Text: (Rollin 1998) the Physical, Natural and Social Sciences.

Reference list items are listed alphabetically at the end of

Web Site [17.356] the research paper. In-Text citations are noted in the body
Reference list: Roach, John. 2005. Journal Ranks Top 25
of the paper.
Unanswered Science Questions.
Numbers in brackets [ ] refer to the section of the Chicago
http://news.nationalgeographic.com
(accessed July 7, 2005). Manual of Style which describes the specific citation style.
Consult these pages for more information.
In-Text: (National Geographic 2005)
For additional examples, please consult The Chicago
Manual of Style 15th ed. available in the Reference
collections of many of the Ohio State University Libraries.
(Z253 .U69 2003)
Note:
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Reference list: Kourik, Robert. 1998. The lavender garden: Reference list: Terborgh, J. 1974. Perservation of natural
beautiful varieties to grow and gather. diversity: The problem of extinction-prone
San Francisco: Chronicle Books. species. BioScience 24:715-22.

In-Text: (Kourik 1998) In-Text: (Terborgh 1974, 720) or (Terborgh 1974)

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Reference list: Flinders, David J. and Geoffrey E. Mills, eds. Reference list: Bolzan, J.F. and K.C. Jezek. 2000. Accumulation
1993. Theory and concepts in qualitative rate changes in central Greenland from
research: perspectives from the field. passive microwave data. Polar Geography
New York: Teachers College Press. 27(4):277-319.

In-Text: (Flinders and Mills 1993) In-Text: (Bolzan and Jezek 2000, 280) or (Bolzan and
Jezek 2000)

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Reference list: Kimble, John M., Rattan Lal, and Ronald F. Follett, Reference list: [Do not include in Reference list. Citation is
eds. 2002. Agricultural practices and policies made in running text style as shown in the In Text
for carbon sequestration in soil. Boca Raton, examples below.]
Fla.: Lewis Publishers. In-Text: “In an article on rampage killers (New York
In-Text: (Kimble, et al. 2002) Times, April 10, 2000), Laurie Goodstein and
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Reference list: Ohio State University. Natural Resources Institute.
1959. A directory of Ohio facilities and
services for resource conservation.
Columbus: Natural Resources Institute.
In-Text: (Ohio State 1959)
Reference list: [Do not include in Reference list. Citation is
made in running text style as shown in the In Text
examples below.]
In-Text: “In his article on Nebo in the eleventh edition of
the Encyclopedia Britannica, Morris Jastrow
noted that…”