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Page numbers only. You may include in the paren<strong>theses</strong> only the page number(s) or otherlocator if readers can readily identify the specific source from your text, either because it isa main object <strong>of</strong> your study (as in the first example below referring to Harriet BeecherStowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin) or because you mention the author or title in your text.Poor John!” interposes Stowe's narrative voice. “It was rather natural; <strong>and</strong> the tears that fell, as he spoke,came as naturally as if he had been a white man” (169).Ernst Cassirer notes this in Language <strong>and</strong> Myth (59–60).Author <strong>and</strong> page number. You should include the author <strong>and</strong> page number(s) or otherlocator if readers cannot readily identify the source from your text <strong>and</strong> you cite only onework by that author.While one school claims that “material culture may be the most objective source <strong>of</strong> in<strong>for</strong>mation we haveconcerning America's past” (Deetz, 259), others disagree.Title <strong>and</strong> page number. You should include a shortened title <strong>and</strong> page number(s) or otherlocator if readers can readily identify the author from your text <strong>and</strong> you cite more than onework by that author.According to Furet, “the Second World War completed what the First had begun—the domination <strong>of</strong> thegreat political religions over European public opinion” (Passing, 360).If you cite a work <strong>of</strong>ten, you can abbreviate the title. If the abbreviation is not obvious, youmay specify it in the note <strong>for</strong> its first citation. (If you use more than five such abbreviations inyour citations, list them in a separate section <strong>of</strong> your paper; see A.2.1.)N: 2. François Furet, The Passing <strong>of</strong> an Illusion: The Idea <strong>of</strong> Communism in the Twentieth Century, trans.Deborah Furet (Chicago: University <strong>of</strong> Chicago Press, 1999), 368 (cited in text as PI).According to Furet, “the Second World War completed what the First had begun—the domination <strong>of</strong> thegreat political religions over European public opinion” (PI, 360).For newspaper articles <strong>and</strong> other types <strong>of</strong> sources in which author, title, <strong>and</strong> page numberare not the key identifying elements (see the relevant sections <strong>of</strong> chapter 17), modify theparenthetical note style as needed.In a New York Times article on the transitions within the Supreme Court (September 30, 2005), LindaGreenhouse discusses these trends.17 Notes-Bibliography Style: Citing SpecificTypes <strong>of</strong> Sources17.1 Books17.1.1 Author's Name

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