Guide_to_Documenting_a_Political_Science_Research_

1AGuidetoDocumentingaPoliticalScienceResearchPaperGeneralInstructions……………………………………..2FormatforCitingPrintSources……………………………………..3Books……………………………………..3Periodicals……………………………………..5GovernmentDocuments……………………………………..7LegalandLaw-RelatedSources……………………………………..8FormatforCitingElectronicSources……………………………………..9SampleNotesPage……………………………………..12SecondorSubsequentCitationsinNotes……………………………………..13SampleBibliography……………………………………..14SampleTitlePage……………………………………..152GeneralInstructionsSalisburyUniversity’sDepartmentofPoliticalScienceDepartmentrequiresanoteandbibliographystylefordocumentingresearchpapers;itisbasedonthefifteentheditionofTheChicagoManualofStyle(Chicago:UniversityofChicagoPress,2003).Thisstylehasthreeparts:-consecutivelynumberedcitationsinthetext.-numberedendnotes.-abibliographyofworksconsulted.Furtherexplanationisbelow:-Superscriptnumbersareusedforin-textcitations.Thenumberisplacedattheendofasentenceafterallpunctuation.1(Thissentenceisanexampleoftheproperplacementofasuperscriptnumber.)-Endnotesareplacedonaseparatepage(s)thatfollowsthelastpageoftext.Thefirstpageofnotesshouldhavethefollowingheading,centeredonthepage:Notes-Bibliographyofworksconsultedareplacedonaseparatepage(s)thatfollowsthelastpageofnotes.Thefirstpageofthebibliographyshouldhavethefollowingheading,centeredonthepage:Bibliography3FormatforCitingPrintSourcesBooksSingleauthorNoteentry:1MichaelHarrington,TheTwilightofCapitalism(NewYork:SimonandSchuster,1976),113.Bibliographyentry:Harrington,Michael.TheTwilightofCapitalism.NewYork:SimonandShuster,1976.TwoauthorsNoteentry:2GaryW.CoxandMathewD.McCubbins,SettingtheAgenda:ResponsiblePartyGovernmentintheU.S.HouseofRepresentatives(NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,2005),87.Bibliographyentry:Cox,GaryW.andMathewD.McCubbins.SettingtheAgenda:ResponsiblePartyGovernmentintheU.S.HouseofRepresentatives.NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,2005.EssayorchapterbyoneauthorinaneditedbookNotetostudents:Ineditedbooks,itisnotacceptabletocitethebook.Boththechapteryouarereferencingandthebookmustbecited.Noteentry:3KennethN.Waltz,“TheOriginsofWarinNeorealistTheory,”inTheOriginandPreventionofMajorWars,eds.RobertI.RotbergandTheodoreK.Rabb(NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,1989),44.4Bibliographyentry:Waltz,KennethN.“TheOriginsofWarinNeorealistTheory.”InTheOriginandPreventionofMajorWars,editedbyRobertI.RotbergandTheodoreK.Rabb,39-52.NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,1989.5FormatforCitingPrintSourcesPeriodicalsMagazinearticleNoteentry:4MichaelElliott,“TheWayOut:6KeystoPeace,”Time,July31,2006,31.Bibliographyentry:Elliott,Michael.“TheWayOut:6KeystoPeace,”Time,July31,2006,30-33.ScholarlyjournalarticleNoteEntry:5ColterPaulson,“CompliancewithFinalJudgmentsoftheInternationalCourtofJusticesince1987,”AmericanJournalofInternationalLaw98(July2004):451.Bibliographyentry:Paulson,Colter.“CompliancewithFinalJudgmentsoftheInternationalCourtofJusticesince1987.”AmericanJournalofInternationalLaw98(July2004):434-461.Newspaperarticle,noauthorgivenNoteEntry:6“NewHampshireMayMovePrimaryto’07,”WashingtonPost,August2,2006,A16.Bibliographyentry:“NewHampshireMayMovePrimaryto’07.”WashingtonPost,August2,2006,A16.Newspaperarticle,authorgivenNoteentry:7StevenMufson,“SenateApprovesBilltoExpandOil,GasDrilling,”WashingtonPost,August2,2006,A7.6Bibliographyentry:Mufson,Steven.“SenateApprovesBilltoExpandOil,GasDrilling.”WashingtonPost,August2,2006,p.A7.Bookreviewinjournal:Noteentry:8MichaelR.McCluskey,reviewofNewsNarrativesandNewsFraming:ConstructingPoliticalReality,byKarenS.Johnson-Cartee,PublicOpinionQuarterly,70(Spring2006),122.Bibliographicentry:McCluskey,MichaelR.reviewofNewsNarrativesandNewsFraming:ConstructingPoliticalReality,byKarenS.Johnson-Cartee.PublicOpinionQuarterly,70(Spring2006),121-123.7FormatforCitingPrintSourcesGovernmentDocumentsNoteentry:U.S.CentralIntelligenceAgency,CentralIntelligence:OriginandEvolution(Washington,D.C.:GovernmentPrintingOffice,2001),97.Bibliographyentry:U.S.CentralIntelligenceAgency.CentralIntelligence:OriginandEvolution.Washington,D.C.:GovernmentPrintingOffice,2001.8FormatforCitingPrintSourcesLegalandLaw-RelatedSourcesConstitutionsNoteentry:U.S.Constitution,art.2,sec.3.U.S.Constitution,amend.15,sec.1.Bibliographyentry:TheU.S.Constitutionisnotincludedinthebibliography.U.S.CodeNoteentry:FamilyandMedicalLeaveActof1993,U.S.Code,vol.28,sec.2612(2000).Bibliographyentry:FamilyandMedicalLeaveActof1993.U.S.Code.Vol.28,secs.2601-2612.SupremeCourtDecisionNoteentry:Chicagov.Morales,527U.S.41,44-46(1999).Bibliographyentry:9FormatforCitingElectronicSourcesNotetostudents::UnitedNations,“TheUniversalDeclarationofHumanRights,”WelcometotheUnitedNations,(accessedAugust1,2002).Bibliographyentry:UnitedNations.“TheUniversalDeclarationofHumanRights.”WelcometotheUnitedNations,