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Civil War

General Principles for Citing Sources, Including Books, Web Sites, Films, etc.

When citing a sourse the following information is needed, if found:

1. Author 2. Title - in italics 3. Type of item 2nd edition 4. Publication data - in parentheses location: publisher, date (Boston, Massachusetts: Genealogical Publishers, 1987) 5. Citation detail (page, section, etc.) pg. 34

Good Web Sites Cited Correctly (not correct yet)
The American Civil War Research Database Bibliography and the American Civil War Research Database

- National Park Service, The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (accessed 6 December 2010).

- U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938, (database on-line), Ancestry.com ($), (accessed 6 December 2010).

- U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, (database on-line), Ancestry.com ($), from rosters, service records, and rolls of honor. (accessed 6 December 2010).

- The Civil War Archive, information is from A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, by Frederick H. Dyer, histories, diaries, etc., (accessed 6 December 2010).

- MilitaryHistoryOnline.com has submissions by people about their ancestors who served in the Civil War. (accessed 6 December 2010).

-A Civil War Blog (The Order of Civil War Obsessively Compulsed - Informed amateurs Blog the American Civil War) outlines the order of Union Troops in the Department of the Ohio in October 1862. (accessed 6 December 2010).

-Civil War Index, the Union Army and the Confederate Army. Under each army is a list of states. For each state is a list of the regiments and shows the length of service for many of the regiments.(accessed 6 December 2010).

CITATION GUIDES Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

Footnote:
Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (New York: Penguin, 2006), 99–100.

2nd footnote for same source:
Pollan, Omnivore’s Dilemma, 3.

Bibliography:
Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York: Penguin, 2006.

Footnote:
Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945 (New York: Knopf, 2007), 52.

2nd footnote for same source:
Ward and Burns, War, 59–61.

Bibliography (Other Sources):
Ward, Geoffrey C., and Ken Burns. The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945. New York: Knopf, 2007.

Four or more authors
- in the bibliography, list all of the authors ;

- in the footnote, list only the first author, followed by et al. (“and others”)

Bibliography:
Barnes,

Footnote:
Dana Barnes et al., Plastics: Essays on American Corporate Ascendance in the 1960s. ..

2nd Footnote:
Barnes et al., Plastics. ..

Footnote:
Richmond Lattimore, trans., The Iliad of Homer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951), 91–92.

2nd Footnote:
Lattimore, Iliad, 24.

Bibliography:
Lattimore, Richmond, trans. The Iliad of Homer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951.

Footnote:
Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, trans. Edith Grossman (London: Cape, 1988), 242–55.

2nd Footnote:
García Márquez, Cholera, 33.

Bibliography:
García Márquez, Gabriel.Love in the Time of Cholera. Translated by Edith Grossman. London: Cape, 1988.

Footnote:
John D. Kelly, “Seeing Red: Mao Fetishism, Pax Americana, and the Moral Economy of War,” in Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency, ed. John D. Kelly et al. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), 77.

2nd Footnote:
Kelly, “Seeing Red,” 81–82.

Bibliography:
Kelly, John D. “Seeing Red: Mao Fetishism, Pax Americana, and the Moral Economy of War.” In Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency, edited by John D. Kelly, Beatrice Jauregui, Sean T. Mitchell, and Jeremy Walton, 67–83. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Pro-genealogists: For Samples of Internet Citations, cut and paste style: http://www.progenealogists.com/citationguide.htm such as:

Books Reprinted or Republished online:
There are many books reprinted online for genealogy purposes. They are primarily in large database sites, but you'll find some on free home pages. It is important to note the original publisher as well as the usual book citation material so that if there is any concern about the veracity of the online edition, the original can be tracked down and inspected.

General Format: Book author, book title, page number cited (Online: Online publisher, online published date) [Original published original publisher name, original publish date], &lt;URL of page&gt;, web page access date.

Cut and Paste Stylesheet: Book author, "book database or page title," _name of website in italics_ (Online: Online publisher, online published date) [Original published original publisher name, original publish date], page number cited, &lt;URL of page&gt;, web page access date.

For Common Internet and Electronic Citations, cut and paste style: http://www.progenealogists.com/commoncitations.htm - such as: Ancestry’s.com’s 1880-1930 Census Images online, Population Schedules. ProQuest Company's 1880-1930 Census Images online, Population Schedules.

Good Books Cited Correctly
Search the FHLC and copy and paste from what is there.

For Other Sources:

- Dyer, Frederick H., A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion [Alabama]: Compiled and Arranged from Official Records of the Federal and Confederate Armies, Reports of the Adjutant Generals of the Several States, the Army Registers and Other Reliable Documents and Sources, (Bethesda, Maryland: University Publications of America, c1990).

For Footnotes:

- Dyer, Frederick H., A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion [Alabama]: Compiled and Arranged from Official Records of the Federal and Confederate Armies, Reports of the Adjutant Generals of the Several States, the Army Registers and Other Reliable Documents and Sources, (Bethesda, Maryland: University Publications of America, c1990), p. 34