# References Section

A References section follows each SEEJ article. This page provides numerous examples of how to format entries in the References section.

SEEJ uses MLA 8 citations. If, after consulting this style guide, you are unsure how to format a particular reference, please visit the [**Purdue MLA 8 Reference Guide**](https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_8th_edition_changes.html). 

## Academic Journal Article

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Schneider, Elizabeth. “Katherine Mansfield and Chekhov.” *Modern Language Notes,* vol. 50, no. 6, 1935, pp. 394–97.
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## Book

#### Single Author

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Meister, Charles. *Chekhov Criticism: 1880 Through 1986*. McFarland & Company, 1988. 

Mirsky, D. S. *A History of Russian Literature From its Beginnings to 1900*. Northwestern UP, 1958.
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#### Multiple Authors

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Brewster, Dorothy and Angus Burrell. *Dead Reckonings in Fiction*. Longmans, Green and Co., 1924.
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### Chapter or Essay from Book

#### One Editor

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Jackson, Robert Louis. “‘Small Fry’: A Nice Little Easter Story.” *Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: Poetics, Hermeneutics, Thematics,* edited by J. Douglas Clayton, University of Ottawa, 2006, pp. 59–74.
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#### Multiple Editors

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Popkin, Cathy. “The Spaces Between the Places: Chekhov’s ‘Without a Title’ and the Art of Being (Out) There.” *Chekhov for the 21st Century,* edited by Carol Apollonio and Angela Brintlinger, Slavica Publishers, 2012, pp. 13–30.
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### Collection or Anthology

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Hill, Charles A., and Marguerite Helmers, editors. *Defining Visual Rhetorics*. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.

Peterson, Nancy J., editor. *Toni Morrison: Critical and Theoretical Approaches*. Johns Hopkins UP, 1997.
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### Translated Book

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 Foucault, Michel. *Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason*. Translated by Richard Howard, Vintage-Random House, 1988.
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## Dissertations and Theses

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Wagner, Jennifer. *Vocabulary, Variation, and Culture in American University Textbooks of French*. 2015. University of South Australia, PhD dissertation.
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## Letter

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Bishop, Elizabeth. "To Robert Lowell." 26 Nov. 1951. *One Art: Letters*. Ed. Robert Giroux. New York: Farrar, 1994. pp. 224–26.
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## Newspaper

#### In Print

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Brubaker, Bill. "New Health Center Targets County's Uninsured Patients." *Washington Post,* 24 May 2007, p. LZ01.
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#### From Website

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 Morrison, Malcolm. "TSX Recovers on Greece News." *Toronto Star*, 23 June 2011, [www.thestar.com/business/economy/2011/06/23/tsx\\\_recovers\\\_on\\\_greece\\\_news.html](http://www.thestar.com/business/economy/2011/06/23/tsx\\_recovers\\_on\\_greece\\_news.html).
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#### No Author

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“Roman Timenchik: ‘U kul'tury sil'nyi instinkt samosokhraneniia.’” *Novaya gazeta*, 18 November, 2014, <https://www.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2014/11/18/61990-roman-timenchik-171-u-kultury-silnyy-instinkt-samosohraneniya-187>.
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## University Press

Always shorten University Press to UP in the References section.

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Princeton UP

U of Mississippi P
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## Websites

For information on how to correctly cite websites in MLA format, please consult [**this page**](https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_works_cited_electronic_sources.html).


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