Journal of Postcolonial Writing Reference Guide, Summaries of Literature

Download Journal of Postcolonial Writing Reference Guide and more Summaries Literature in PDF only on Docsity! Journal of Postcolonial Writing Reference Guide HOW TO ARRANGE THE “WORKS CITED” SECTION Please do not cite bibliographical information from memory; verify each entry in your bibliography against the original source. We must rely on our contributors to be accurate in their citations. Books “University Press” should be abbreviated to UP, and “Press” to P e.g. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP; Oxford: OUP Sample abbreviations of publishers’ names: ACLS, ALA, Basic, CAL, Cambridge UP, Eastgate, Einaudi, ERIC, Farrar, Feminist, Gale, Gerig, GPO, Harper, Harvard Law Rev. Assn., HMSO, Houghton, Knopf, Larousse, Little, Macmillan, McGraw, MIT P, MLA, NCTE, NEA, Norton, PUF, Random, Scribner’s, Simon, SIRS, State U of New York P, St. Martin’s, UMI, U of Chiacago P, UP of Mississippi. Missing publication information n.p. = no place of publication given: N.p.: U of Gotham P, 2006. n.p. = no publisher given: New York: n.p., 2006. n.d. = no date of publication given: New York: U of Gotham P, n.d. n. pag. = no pagination given: New York: U of Gotham P, 2006. N. pag. A Book by a Single Author Fukuyama, Francis. Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. New York: Farrar, 2002. Chapter in an edited book Varma, Rashmi. “Freedom and the Image of the Looking Glass in The Shadow Lines.” The Fiction of Amitvav Ghosh. Ed. Indira Bhatt and Indira Nityanandam. New Delhi: Creative, 2001. 40-47. An Anthology or a Compilation Lopate, Phillip, ed. The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present. New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1994. Spafford, Peter, comp. and ed. Interference: The Story of Czechoslovakia in the Words of Its Writers. Cheltenham: New Clarion, 1992. Two or More Books by the Same Author (Use three hyphens followed by period and then title, or comma and ed. if necessary). Works listed under the same name are alphabetised by title. Borroff, Marie. Language and the Past: Verbal Artistry in Frost, Stevens and Moore. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1979. ---, trans. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. New York: Norton, 1967. ---, ed. Wallace Stevens: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice- Hall, 1963. Journal of Postcolonial Writing Reference Guide A Book by Two or More Authors Eggins, Suzanne, and Diana Slade. Analysing Casual Conversation. London: Cassell, 1997. If there are more than three authors, you may name only the first and add et al. (“and others”), or you may give all names in full in the order in which they appear on the title page. Gilman, Sander, et al. Hysteria Beyond Freud. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993. or Gilman, Sander, Helen King, Roy Porter, George Rousseau, and Elaine Showalter. Hysteria Beyond Freud. Berkeley: U of California P, 1993. Repeat names in full if the same person is part of a different authorship. Do not use three hyphens unless the total authorship is the same A Book by a Corporate Author American Medical Association. The American Medical Association Encyclopedia of Medicine. Ed. Charles B. Layman. New York: Random, 1989. Cross-references To avoid unnecessary repetition in citing two or more works from the same collection, you may create a complete entry for the collection and cross-reference individual pieces to the entry. In a cross-reference, state the author and title of the piece, last name of the editor, and inclusive page numbers. If the piece is a translation, add the name of the translator after the title or collections as appropriate. Hamill, Pete. Introduction. Sexton and Powers xi–xiv. Mayakovsky, Vladimir. “Brooklyn Bridge.” Trans. Max Hayward and George Reavey. Sexton and Powers 136–41. McCullers, Carson. “Brooklyn Is My Neighbourhood.” Sexton and Powers 143–47. If you list two or more works under the editor’s name, add the title or shortened title to the cross-reference. A Work in an Anthology Allende, Isabel. “Toad’s Mouth.” Trans. Margaret Sayers Peden. A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes: Stories from Latin America. Ed Thomas Colchie. New York: Plume, 1992. 83–88. Often the works in anthologies have been published before. If you wish to inform your reader of the date when a previously published piece other than a scholarly article first appeared, you may follow the title of the piece with the year of original publication and a period. Franklin, Benjamin. “Emigration to America.” 1782. The Faber Book of America. Ed. Christopher Ricks and William L. Vance. Boston: Faber, 1992. 24–26. Journal of Postcolonial Writing Reference Guide Jeromack, Paul. “This Once, a David of the Art World Does Goliath a Favor.” New York Times 13 July 2002, late ed.: B7+. Abbreviate months as follows: Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., May, June, July, Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec. An Article in a Magazine Mehta, Pratap Bhanu. “Exploding Myths.” New Republic 6 June 1998: 17–19. An Anonymous Article “Dubious Venture.” Time 3 Jan. 1994: 64–65. A Special Issue Perret, Delphine, and Marie-Denise Shelton, eds. Maryse Conde. Spec. issue of Callaloo 18.3 (1995): 535–711. Somin, Ilya. “Do Politicians Pander?” State Autonomy. Spec. issue of Critical Review 14.2–3 (2000): 147–55. A Legal Source New York Times Co. v. Tasini. No. 00-201. Supreme Ct. of the US. 25 June 2001. Film List films by their title, and include the name of the director, the film studio or distributor and its release year. If other information, like names of performers, is relevant to how the film is referred to in your paper, include that as well. if you view a digitized version of a film on the Web, include the title of the database or Web site, medium of publication and date of access. The Usual Suspects. Dir. Bryan Singer. Perf. Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Stephen Baldwin, and Benecio del Toro. Polygram, 1995. Film. Currin, John. Blond Angel. 2001. Indianapolis Museum of Art. IMA: It’s my Art. Web. 9 May 2008. If the film is referred to in terms of the role or contribution of a director, writer, or performer, begin the entry with that person’s name, last name first. Interviews: MLA Handbook 5th Edition 4.8.7 applies. Begin with name of person interviewed: Rushdie, Salman. Interview with Ginny Dougary. The Times 10 August 2005. 1-5. [then the web reference if appropriate] Rushdie, Salman. Interview with Jack Livings. “The Art of Fiction No.186.” The Paris Review 174 (2005): 107-43. Journal of Postcolonial Writing Reference Guide INTERNET SOURCES In the past, the MLA Style Manual recommended including URLs of Web sources, but these can change and are also prone to errors. You should now include a URL as supplementary information only when the reader won’t be able to find the source without it. If you do give it, place it immediately after the date of access, enclosed in angle brackets. Eaves, Morris. The William Blake Archive. Lib. of Cong., 28 Sept. 2007. Web. 20 Nov. 2007. <http://www.blackearchive.org/blake/>. Work cited only on the Web For a non-periodical publication on the Web, include the following components: Name of the author, Title of the work, Title of the Web site, Version or edition, Publisher or sponsor of the site, Date of publication, Medium of publication, Date of access. Antin, David. Interview by Charles Bernstein. Dalkey Archive Press. Dalkey Archive P, n.d. Web. 21 Aug. 2006. Committee on Scholarly Editions. “Guidelines for Editors.” Modern Language Association. MLA, 25 Sept. 2007. Web. 20 Oct. 2007. “Maplewood, New Jersey.” Map. Google Maps. Google, 23 Aug. 2007. Web. 23 Aug. 2007. Salda, Michael N., ed. The Cinderella Project. Vers. 1.2. U of Southern Mississippi, Oct. 2005. Web. 21 Oct. 2008. “Utah Mine Rescue Funeral.” CNN.com. Cable News Network, 21. Aug. 2007. Web. 22 Oct. 2008. Online Books Sometimes it is important to indicate that a work consulted on the Web also appears in another medium. For non-periodical publications only on the Web, include the following: Author name, Title, Title of website, Version or edition, Publisher or sponsor of the site, Date of publication, Medium of publication, Date of access. Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Ed. Henry Churchyard. 1996. Web. 18 Oct. 2007.Barsky, Robert F. Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1997. Web. 12 Jan. 2008. Online Periodicals add date accessed at end of entry: Flannagan, Roy. “Reflections on Milton and Ariosto.” Early Modern Literary Studies 2.3 (1996): n. pag. Web. 8 Nov. 2007. Publications on CD-ROM It is important to state the publication medium as formats may be different. Journal of Postcolonial Writing Reference Guide Braunmuller, A. R., ed. Macbeth. By William Shakespeare. CD-ROM. New York: Voyager, 1994. E-mail Communication Harner, James L. E-mail to the author. 20 Aug. 2002.