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The Chicago Manual of Style. 15th ed. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2003.

When you use quotations in the text, place the citation before the last quotation mark.

Colbert, Stephen. Home page. 1 Nov. 2006. <http://colbertnation.com>.

Titles of short stories should be italicized or underlined.

Crane, Niles F. “Anarchy at Sea.” Atlantic Monthly. Sept. 2003: 50-80.

American Association for Artificial Intelligence. 17 Mar. 2001 .<http://www.aaai.org>.

Papers should be double spaced, throughout, including Works Cited.

Bernst, Barton. "Atomic Diplomacy:Hiroshima & Nagasaki.”Diplomatic History 28.3(1991): 126-29.

Author’s names are listed alphabetically, last name first, on the Works Cited page.

You should use “et al” when you are citing a text with more than three authors.

A Works Cited should begin after the last paragraph of your research paper, on the same page.

Quotation marks are still used in block quotes.

Alphabetize your Works Cited page, including “A,” “An,” or “The” as the first word of a title.

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Works Cited entries should be indented on the second line, not the first.

You should capitalize every word in a title.

Use block quotes when quoting more than four lines (not sentences) of text.

Paraphrases do not need to be cited.

“Work(s) Cited” is centered, with quotation marks, italics, or underlining.

You should use the authors last name in the in-text citation, even if it appears in the text.