POLI 375 Gender Politics in China

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There are a number of  citation styles and the Library holds print copies and quick guides at the Research Help desk.  

For POLI 375 use either APA 6th or Chicago 16th Author-Date. 

Each of these styles requires a reference list of sources.  Refworks can help with formatting your reference list.

Each of these styles requires the use of in-text citations for work quoted, paraphrased or summarized.  An in-text citation MUST include:that include three elements:

1. author surname
2. year of publication
3. page number(s) ,

In-text examples:

APA:  (Smith, 2000, p.987)

Chicago:  (Smith 2000, 987)

Reference list examples:  consult the quick guides at the links below for book, journal, newspaper, government documents, websites, and more.   Note that ebooks and ejournals require additional information such as a DOI,or a URL, and for Chicago, an access date. Note: Your professor may not require access dates , urls, or doi's.    

APA Ejournal example:

Kossinets, G. & Watts, D.J.  (2009). Origins of Homophily in an Evolving Social Network. American Journal of Sociology 115(2), 405–50. doi:10.1086/599247.

Chicago Ejournal example: