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Line 14                                                         Title of Paper

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Line 23                                                         A Paper Presented to

Line 25                                                             Faculty Member

















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Line 49                                                              City, State (of University)

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Sample bibliography entries for research papers.  These entry formats follow Kate L. Turabian’s Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Sixth Edition, 1996.


One author
Two authors
Three authors
More than three authors
Association or institution as author
Editor or compiler as author
Author of one part in a work by another author
Journal article
Encyclopedia article
Newspaper    
Bibliography Entry Samples


American Political Science Association.  Toward a More Responsible Two-Party System.  New
        York: Rinehardt & Company, Inc., 1950.

Barber, James David.  The Lawmakers: Recruitment and Adaptation to Legislative Life.  New
        Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.

Chambers, William Nisbet, ed.  The First Party System: Federalists and Republicans.  New
        York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1972.

Cigler, Allan J. And Burdett A. Loomis.  Interest Group Politics.  Washington: C.Q. Press, 1986.

Firoina, Morris P.  “The Case of the Vanishing Marginals: The Bureaucracy Did It.”  American
        Political Science Review 71 (March 1977): 177-181.

Jacobson, Gary C.  “The Republican Advantage in Campaign Finance.”  In The New Direction in
        American Politics, ed. John E. Chubb and Paul E. Peterson.  Washington: The Brookings
        Institution, 1985.

Roberts, Steven V.  “Parties’ Outlook: Distinctly National.”  The New York Times, 4 May 1982, 3.

Seligman, Lester G., Michael R. King, Chong Lim Kim, and Roland E. Smith.  Patterns of 
        Recruitment: A State Chooses its Lawmakers.  Chicago: Rand McNally College Publishing
        Company, 1974.

Sills, David L., ed.  International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.  New York: MacMillan
        and the Free Press, 1968.  "Political Recruitment and Careers," by Duane Marvick.

Wander, W. Thomas, F. Ted Hebert, and Gary W. Copeland.  Congressional Budgeting: Politics,
        Process, and Power.  Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1984.