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• This core element begins with a capital letter if the previous section
ended with a period and with a lower case letter if the previous section
ended with a comma.
MEDIA EXAMPLES
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Read by Bob Lawrence, abridged version,
Naxos Audiobooks, 2007.
Roeg, Nicolas, director. Walkabout. Director’s cut, Max L. Raab-Si Litvinoff
Films, 1998.
6. NUMBER,
• If a source is part of a numbered sequence, include information to help
the reader identify the part of the sequence.
• Journals, magazines, encyclopedias, and comic books are often published as a numbered sequence.
• If the numbered sequence makes use of volumes, use the abbreviation vol. before the volume number.
If it makes use of issue numbers, use the abbreviation no. before the issue number. Many use both.
• If the core element before the number ends with a period , capitalize the first letter of the first
abbreviation. E.G. Vol.
• When citing an episode of a television show, include season and episode numbers along with those
descriptors.
EXAMPLES
Brooker, Charlie and William Bridges, writers. "Shut Up and Dance." Black Mirror, directed by James
Watkins, season 3, episode 3, Endemol, 2016.
Brummitt, Cassie. “Pottermore: Transmedia Storytelling and Authorship in Harry Potter.” The Midwest
Qua rterly, no. 1, 2016, pp. 112-122.
Gaiman, Neil. “The Kindly Ones.” The Sa ndman. Vol. 13 no. 69, DC Comics, 1995.
McKenzie-Jones, Paul. “Occupation of Alcatraz, 1969 –1971.” 50 Events That Shaped American Indian
Histo ry: An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic , edited by Donna Martinez and Jennifer L.
Williams Bordeaux, vol. 2., Greenwood, 2017, pp. 549 – 560.
McNett, Gabriel. “Using Stories to Facilitate Learning.” College Teaching , vol. 64, no. 4, Oct. 2016, pp.
184–193. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/ 10.1080/87567555.2016.1189389.
7. PUBLISHER,
• A publisher is a company, organization, or person who has distributed a source to the public.
• Select source types DO NOT require the publisher to be named :
• Journals, magazines, and newspapers
• Works published by their author or editor
• Certain kinds of websites. See next page.
THE FOLLOWING SOURCE TYPES GENERALLY INCLUDE A PUBLISHER :
BOOKS
• To determine the publisher of a book, look on the title page . If you do not see the publisher there,
look on the next page.
• Do not include words like Company or Inc. in the publisher’s name. Use the word and instead of &.