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          Note: The following sample entries are designed to show the sequence of information, capitalization, and punctuation.  In your bibliography, you will doublespace the entries and indent second and subsequent lines of each entry in accordance with formatting conventions explained elsewhere. 

Information:
Author: Kathleen Blake Yancey
Book Title: Reflection in the Writing Classroom
City of Publication: Logan, Utah
Publishing Company: University of Utah Press
Year of Publication: 1998
Number of Pages: 212		 MLA Format:
Yancey, Kathleen Blake.  Reflection in the Writing Classroom.  Logan, UT: U of Utah P, 1998.
or:
Yancey, Kathleen Blake.  Reflection in the Writing Classroom.  Logan, UT: U of Utah P, 1998.

APA Format:
Yancey, K. B.  (1998).  Reflection in the writing classroom.  Logan, UT: University of Utah Press.
or:
Yancey, K. B.  (1998).  Reflection in the writing classroom.  Logan, UT: University of Utah Press.

CBE Format:
Yancey KB.  Reflection in the writing classroom.  Logan (UT): Univ of Utah Pr.; 1998.  212 p.

AMA Format:
Yancey KB.  Reflection in the Writing Classroom.  Logan, Ut: Univ of Utah Pr.; 1998.  
Information:
Authors: Paul R. Frommer, Edward Finegan
Book Title: Looking at Languages
Book Subtitle: A Workbook in Elementary Linguistics
Edition: Third
City of Publication: Boston, Massachusetts
Publishing Company: Thomson/Wadsworth
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of Pages: 374		 MLA Format:
Frommer, Paul R., and Edward Finegan.  Looking at Languages:  A Workbook in Elementary Linguistics. 3rd ed.  Boston: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004.
or:
Frommer, Paul R., and Edward Finegan.  Looking at Languages:  A Workbook in Elementary Linguistics. 3rd ed.  Boston: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004.

APA Format:
Frommer, P.R., & Finegan, E.  (2004).  Looking at languages:  A workbook in elementary linguistics (3rd ed.).  Boston: Thomson/Wadsworth.
or:
Frommer, P.R., & Finegan, E.  (2004).  Looking at languages:  A workbook in elementary linguistics (3rd ed.).  Boston: Thomson/Wadsworth.

CBE Format:
Frommer PR, Finegan E.  Looking at languages: a workbook in elementary linguistics.  3rd ed.  Boston:  Thomson/Wadsworth; 2004.  374 p.

AMA Format:
 Frommer PR, Finegan E.  Looking at Languages: A Workbook in Elementary Linguistics.  Boston: Thomson/Wadsworth; 2004.
Information:
Authors: Mary Field Belenky, Blythe McVicker Clinchy, Nancy Rule Goldberger, Jill Mattuck Tarule
Book Title: Women's Ways of Knowing
Book Subtitle:  The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind
City of Publication: New York, NY
Publishing Company: Basic Books
Year of Publication: 1986
Number of Pages: 256		 MLA Format:
Belenky, Mary Field, et al.  Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind.  New York: Basic Books, 1986.
or:
Belenky, Mary Field, et al.  Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind.  New York: Basic Books, 1986.

APA Format:
Belenky, M. F., Clinchy, B. M., Goldberger, N. R., & Tarule, J. M.  (1986).  Women's ways of knowing: The development of self, voice, and mind.  New York:  Basic Books.

CBE Format:
Belenky MF, Clinchy, BM, Goldberger, NR, Tarule, JM.  Women's ways of knowing: the development of self, voice, and mind.  New York: Basic Books; 1986.  256 p.

AMA Format:
 Belenky MF, Clinchy, BM, Goldberger, NR, Tarule, JM.  Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind.  New York: Basic Books; 1986.

Practice creating bibliographic entries with the following information:

Author

Title/Subtitle

City of Publication

Publishing Information

Year of Publication/Edition

Number of Pages
Joseph Harris A Teaching Subject/Composition Since 1966 Upper Saddle River, New Jersey Prentice Hall 1997 144
Matthew B. Miles, A. Michael Huberman Qualitative Data Analysis/An Expanded Sourcebook Thousand Oaks, California Sage Publications 1994/second edition 394
William O'Grady, John Archibald, Mark Aronoff, Janie Rees-Miller Contemporary Linguistics/An Introduction Boston, Massachusetts Bedford/St. Martin's 2001/fourth edition 751

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