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Magazine article with an author Gold, Jeannye. "When Fathers Raise ChildrenAlone." U.S. News and

World Report 12 Apr. 1999: 51-52. Print.

Magazine article, no author given "Fathers Confused by Changing Family Roles." Family Monthly

Oct. 1980: 5. Print.

++ Full text magazine article from online

database to which the library subscribes (first dateis date of publication; second date is day youaccessed it.)

Box, Scott. "One Father's Unique Perspective."

Newsweek 5 Mar.1999: 38. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 12 Feb.

2009.

Newspaper article with author Schorr, Burt, Jr. "States Cracking Down on FathersDodging

Child-Support Payments." Wall Street Journal

26 Jan. 2009, eastern ed.: 33. Print.

++ Newspaper article from an online database towhich the library subscribes

Griest, Stephanie. "Program Offers Help for YoungFathers." Austin

American-Statesman 27 Apr. 1999: E4. InfoTrac Newspapers.

Web. 21 Apr. 2009.



++ Web newspaper article with author ( name of publisher follows title of source, so Washington Post repeats)

Willison, Marilyn Murray. "Family Issues."Washington Post. Washington Post , 1 May 2009. Web. 6 May2009.

Scholarly journal article(volume & issuenumbers go after journal name; if no issuenumber, just put volume)

Larson, Eric. "Cross-Cultural Studies of Fatherhood." Journal of

Marriage and the Family 11.4 (1998):212-18. Print.

++ Scholarly journal article from an onlinedatabase to which the library subscribes (volume& issue numbers go after journal name)

Gerry, Judy O. "Balancing Employment andFatherhood." Journal

of Family Issues 18.6 (1997): 386-402. Academic Search

Complete. Web. 21 July 2008.

Previously published scholarly article reprinted in a collection

Wornen, Henry. "The Father and His Sons."Modern Literature 27.3

(1995): 179-85. Rpt. in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Michael Stewart. Vol. 89. Detroit:

Gale, 1999. 404-10. Print.



Reference Type: List Example:

Book or pamphlet Parke, Ross. Fathers.Cambridge: HarvardUniversity Press, 2000. Print.

Book with two editors, not the first edition McKee, Lorna, and Margaret O’Brien, eds. The Father Figure. 3rd ed.New York: Tavistock, 1982. Print.

++ E-book from online database to which thelibrary subscribes

Coltrain, Scott. Family Man: Fatherhood, Housework, and Gender Equity.

New York: Oxford, 1996. NetLibrary.Web. 7 Feb. 2009.

Republished book Young, Marilyn. Family Life. 1972. New York:Doubleday, 1999. Print.

A work or chapter within a larger work Valsiner, Jaan. “The Father’s Role in the Social Network of a Soviet Child.” Role of the Father in Child Development .Ed. Michael E. Lamb.

New York: Wiley, 1981. 187-201. Print.

Work reprinted in a collection and given a new title Wooster, Bernard. “Child Support Laws ShouldBe Tougher.” Family Values: Opposing Viewpoints. SanDiego: Greenhaven,

1998. 10-14. Print. Rpt. of “DeadbeatDads.” Reader’s Digest

Jan. 1996: 29-34.

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General encyclopedia, signed article Farber, Bernard. “Family.” Encyclopedia Americana. 2007 ed. Print.

Specialized encyclopedia, no author given “Fatherhood.” Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ed.T.E. Chen.

Vol 2. New York: Putnam, 1999. Print.

++ Web encyclopedia, no author given "Parent." Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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Government document United States. Dept. of Justice. Child Support Payment Laws.

Washington: GPO, 2007. Print.

++ Government document from the web United States. Dept. of Education. Choices for Parents. 9 Oct. 2008.

Web. 11 Nov. 2008.

Interviews (in-person and from an outside source)

Vargas, Carmen. Personal interview. 8 November 2005. Jensen, Alfred.

Interview by Ted Koppel. Nightline. ABC.KVUE, Austin, TX.

24 May 2004. Television.

++ Work reprinted in a collection from a librarydatabase (give information about whereoriginally published first, then about reprintsource)

O'Neale, Sondra. "Fathers, Gods, and Religion:Perceptions of

Christianity and Ethnic Faith in JamesBaldwin." Critical Essays

on James Baldwin. Ed. Fred Stanley and Nancy Burt. N.p.: Hall,

1988: 125-43. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism.

Web. 12 Dec 2008.

Film or video When Fathers Desert Families. Prod. ProjectHope. Maxwell, 2008. DVD.

++ Online video Barack Obama Podcast: On Fatherhood. barackobama.com. 17 June 2007.

YouTube. Web. 5 May 2009.



++ World Wide Web site ( Give the specific page’s title in quotation marks,then general title of web site in italics.Give publisher after that.)

Sheppard, Lisa. "Father InvolvementShows Positive Outcomes." Urban Programs Resource Network. University of Illinois

at Urbana-Champaign. Apr. 2001.Web. 29 May 2009.

++ World Wide Web page with"missing" information (Often all theinformation asked for in the aboveexample isn't there. Here there was noauthor or overall web site name or publisher or publication date.)

Why Fathers Are Getting Child CustodyMore. N.p., n.d. Web. 30

June 2008.++ Blackboard material Silva, Ricardo. "Lecture Notes" Sociology1301. Austin

Community College. Blackboard. 7Jul 2010. Microsoft Word

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