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Article and Book Titles

• Punctuation: Style for bibliographic information in footnotes, bibliographies, and folder lists

• Use title case. Capitalize book, journal, and article titles. Journal article titles also should be enclosed in quotation marks..

• If a report has been published (that is, you have name of publisher: MIT Press) capitalize the title. If a report is unpublished, put the title in quotation marks and capitalize. (Periods and commas go inside the quotation mark in the USA).

• In folder lists and footnotes put first name first.

Use Chicago manual of style, Notes and Bibliography, for citations:

Journal article

Author’s last and first name, “Title of Article,” Journal Title 73, no. 1 (1980): pages. url.

•  Keng, Shao-Hsun, Chun-Hung Lin, and Peter F. Orazem. “Expanding College Access in Taiwan, 1978–2014: Effects on Graduate Quality and Income Inequality.” Journal of Human Capital 11, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1086/690235.

• LaSalle, Peter. “Conundrum: A Story about Reading.” New England Review 38, no. 1 (2017): 95–109. Project MUSE.

• Satterfield, Susan. “Livy and the Pax Deum.” Classical Philology 111, no. 2 (April 2016): 165–76.

Book

Author’s last and first name, Title of Book, place of publication: name of publisher, publication date. If there is only a place of publication and a date: Place, date.

• Grazer, Brian, and Charles Fishman. A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015.

• Smith, Zadie. Swing Time. New York: Penguin Press, 2016.

Dates in narrative text (note fields only)

• October 12 (not October 12th)
• October 12, 1952  (when used in narrative the year should be followed by a comma)
• The 21st century; 21st-century technology
• September 1990 (no comma)
• 1980s (no apostrophe)
• Use: from 1940 to 1960 (not from 1940-1960)
• Use: between 1980 and 1990 (not between 1940-1960)
• Use all digits in a number range: 1872 to 1888 (not 1872 to 88)

Numbers

• Use a comma in numbers of four digits or more: 2,670
• Numbers in narrative descriptive elements:
• Spell out numbers from one to nine. For all other numbers, use digits
• Spell out numbers that begin sentences.
• Use: from 1940 to 1960 (not from 1940-1960)
• Use: between 1980 and 1990 (not between 1940-1960)