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Classics Research Guide
How to Cite Sources

Classics uses Chicago style citations. Some examples:


Journal article from a print journal
Verbaal, Wim. "Cicero and Dionysios the Elder, or The End Of Liberty." Classical World 99, no. 2 (1999): 145-156.


Journal article from one of the Library databases
Ruprecht, Louis A.. "Hellenism on Display." Journal of Modern Greek Studies 15. 2 (1997), 247-260, http://0-muse.jhu.edu.cando.canisius.edu/help/journals/journal_of_modern_greek _studies/v015/15.2ruprecht.html. (accessed June 19, 2008).


Web Site
Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/. Accessed June 19, 2008.


Book
Appianus, of Alexandria. Appian’s Roman history, Vol 3. Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 2000.


The following websites provide a simple way to create a citation. Fill
in the information about the item, then copy and paste the citation
into your bibliography or footnote.


Easy Bib
MLA and APA

Citation Machine
APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian

NoodleBib Express
MLA and APA

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