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Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature follows the endnote documentation style of The Chicago Manual of Style with some slight alterations. We do not publish a bibliography, so all documentation information must appear in the notes. This style sheet is designed to provide an overview of commonly used note formats and points of our house style. For any questions not answered here, please refer to the most recent edition of The Chicago Manual of Style.
Each source is first cited in an endnote. For the primary texts—literary or critical—that are frequently cited, parenthetical references will be used for subsequent citations. A parenthetical may also be used when a second citation of a work occurs immediately after the first even if the work is not cited again. For works that will be cited parenthetically, the endnote should include the sentence “Subsequent references will be cited parenthetically in the text.” The parenthetical references in the text should include p. or pp. followed by the page number(s).
Citations:
One author book: Linda Williams, Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the “Frenzy of the Visible” (Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1980).
If a title of a book is contained in one of another work, use quotation marks around it.
No author, but an editor: Rob Shields, ed., Lifestyle Shopping: The Subject of Consumption (New York: Routledge Publishers, 1992), p.2.
Author and editor: W.B. Yeats, “Leda and the Swan,” The Poems of W.B. Yeats, ed. Richard Finneran (New York: Macmillian, 1983), pp. 214-215.
Do no put “ed.” if there are multiple editors.
Author with translation: Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, trans. Steven Rendall (Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1984), p. xix.
Author with translator and editor: Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, ed. Frederick Engels, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (New York: Modern Library, 1906).
When citing parenthetically after citing via endnote the first time, do not use “p.” or “pp.”, just the page number.
Article: David Trotter, “Too Much of a Good Thing: Fiction and the ‘Economy of Abundance,’” Critical Quarterly, 34 (Winter 1992), 27-41.
Do not use “p.” or “pp.” if the source is a periodical.
Do not include the issue number but instead use the complete date.
We use endnotes, not a bibliography, so all citations must be included in notes.
First use of a citation gets an endnote, then it is parenthetically cited.
State that the parenthetical citation will follow.
Use “p.” or “pp.”
Points of House Style:
Use full name first time mentioned.
Use full title and publication date first time mentioned.
Inset 5 lines or more.
On inset quotations, no punctuation after the parenthetical citation: “such and such.” (Joyce p. 3)
Avoid coordinating conjunctions.
Use a noun after “this” for clarification.
Foreign words need to be italicized.
Do not begin or end sentences with ellipses; use 3 ellipses for omission within a sentence, and 4 for omission between sentences.
Use em dashes–no spaces before or after.
Use the serial comma before “and.” Do not use commas before subordinating conjunctions such as “since” and “because.” Use commas and the conjunction “which” for non-restrictive clauses. Use “that” and no comma for restrictive clauses.
Punctuation inside quotes, except : and ;
Dates are DAY MONTH YEAR 28 August 2024
Avoid abbreviations, included i.e. and e.g.
Use ‘s to make a word possessive if it ends with an ‘s.’
No contractions.
