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The brackets [ & ] are illustrative of the kind of punctuation required
and should not appear in the final version of your work.

Edited Works With an Original Author/Editor Specified – Same citation style as Edited Works Without an Original Author Specified, except that the editor’s name follows the title. 

  1. For example:

    1 John Q. Smith, Once Upon a Time in Lee County: Almost a Championship, ed. Chuck Roast  (New York: Little, Brown Publishers, 2004), 2.

  2. Subsequent citations:
    1. If the book and page are identical to the immediately preceding citation, Ibid will suffice.
    2. Example:

    1 John Q. Smith, Once Upon a Time in Lee County: Almost a Championship, ed. Chuck Roast (New York: Little, Brown Publishers, 2004), 2.

    2 Ibid.

  3. If the book is the same as the immediately preceding citation, but cites a different page, use Ibid[.][,] and the page number.
    1. Example:

    1 John Q. Smith, Once Upon a Time in Lee County: Almost a Championship, ed. Chuck Roast (New York: Little, Brown Publishers, 2004), 2.

    2 Ibid., 4.
      

  4. If citing a book that has been cited earlier in the same paper, list the author’s last name[,], an abbreviated title[,], and the page number[.].
    1. Example:

    7 Smith, Once Upon a Time, 9.

     

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