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PUBLIC POLICY IN THE NEWS: BIBLIOGRAPHY GUIDELINES
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You must include a bibliography separate from your newsletter. This will list all the sources used in your research.
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Use the heading “Bibliography” – this should be centered at the top of the page.
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List your sources in alphabetical order by author’s last name.
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Your bibliography should be single-spaced with an extra space between each source.
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Your bibliography should use a tab-width hanging indent.
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You may quote your sources – particularly legislation or court cases – however no newsletter should include more than three
direct quotes.
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If you do quote a source directly, you must include footnotes. Follow the format below exactly.
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Use The Chicago Manual of Style “Notes and Bibliography” documentation system. There is a link to the “Citation Quick
Guide” on our website; examples of how to use this format are given below.
BOOK:
 One author – bibliography:
Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York: Penguin, 2006.
 One author – footnote:
1. Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (New York: Penguin, 2006), 99–100.
2. Pollan, Omnivore’s Dilemma, 3.
 Two or more authors – bibliography:
Ward, Geoffrey C., and Ken Burns. The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945. New York: Knopf, 2007.
 Two or more authors – footnote:
1. Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945 (New York: Knopf, 2007), 52.
2. Ward and Burns, The War, 59–61.
ARTICLE:
 Bibliography:
Mendelsohn, Daniel. “But Enough about Me.” New Yorker, January 25, 2010.
Weinstein, Joshua I. “The Market in Plato’s Republic.” Classical Philology 104 (2009): 439–58.
 Footnote:
1. Daniel Mendelsohn, “But Enough about Me,” New Yorker, January 25, 2010, 68.
2. Joshua I. Weinstein, “The Market in Plato’s Republic,” Classical Philology 104 (2009): 440.
WEBSITE:
 Bibliography:
Google. “Google Privacy Policy.” Last modified March 11, 2009. http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html.
McDonald’s Corporation. “McDonald’s Happy Meal Toy Safety Facts.” Accessed July 19, 2008.
http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about/factsheets.html.
 Footnote:
1. “Google Privacy Policy,” last modified March 11, 2009, http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html.
2. “McDonald’s Happy Meal Toy Safety Facts,” McDonald’s Corporation, accessed July 19, 2008,
http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about/factsheets.html.
3. “Google Privacy Policy.”
4. “Toy Safety Facts.”
Bibliography
Ashanti McFarlane, Nicole. “Digital Memory and Narrative through ‘African American Rhetoric[s] 2.0.’”
Last modified March 28, 2012. http://enculturation.gmu.edu/digital-memory.
Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge,
MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.
Douglass, Frederick. “The Church and Prejudice: Speech Delivered at the Plymouth County Anti-Slavery
Society, November 4, 1841.” Accessed May 26, 2015.
http://www.frederickdouglass.org/speeches/index.html.
Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York: Harper & Row
Publishers, 1988.
Hope Franklin, John. Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin. New York: Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, 2005.
Lincoln, C. Eric and Lawrence H. Mamiya. The Black Church in the African American Experience.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995.
Wilson, Douglas L. Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words. New York: Vintage
Books, 2006.