GUIDELINES FOR DOCUMENTATION: When writing an historical essay, you must observe the conventions of historians
regarding both notes and bibliography. Historians currently use a style referred
to as the Chicago Style A (Chicago Manual of Style) or old MLA (Modern Language
Association) format. The author-date format (APA) appropriate for other disciplines
is generally not acceptable for historical papers. Footnote or Endnote: Corresponding Bibliographic Entry: [BOOK] 1.Ian Kershaw, The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of
Interpretation (London: Edward Arnold, 1985), 9. 2.Karl Dietrich Bracher, The Nazi Dictatorship (Berlin: Campe, 1980),
56. 3.Kershaw, Nazi Dictatorship, 24. | [BOOK] Bracher, Karl Dietrich. The Nazi Dictatorship. Berlin: Campe, 1980. Kershaw, Ian. The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation. London: Edward Arnold, 1985. | [EDITED COLLECTION OF ARTICLES] 4.Milan Hauner, Hitler’s Drive for a World Dominion, in J.D. Snell,
ed. Origins of the Nazi Terror (Boston: Heath, 1982), 64-70. 5.Ibid., 80. | [EDITED COLLECTION OF ARTICLES] Snell, John D., ed. Origins of the Nazi Terror. Boston: Heath, 1982. | [ARTICLE IN JOURNAL] 6.Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century, History
and Theory, 24 (1956), 106. | [ARTICLE IN JOURNAL] Arendt, Hannah. Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century, History and Theory, 24 (1956), 104-128. |
1. Footnotes/Endnotes must be numbered consecutively from the first page of
the essay to the last. 2. Your bibliography should be arranged in alphabetical order according to
authors' surnames. It should appear on a separate page from the notes and text,
and there is no need to number bibliographic entries. 3. Notes at the bottom of the page (Footnotes) and notes at the end of the
essay (Endnotes) are equally acceptable. Use whichever format is easier for
you. |
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