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Theses and Manuscripts

Examples in this guide are provided for footnote citations (N) and bibliography (B). Footnotes and bibliography format contain most of the same elements but are formatted slightly differently.  For example, notes use paragraph (first line) indentation, and the bibliography entries use hanging indents. If you cite one source multiple times, you may use shortened notes for citations after the first one.

Theses or Dissertations 

If online, not in an institutional repository or a database: Provide URL in place of the name of a repository or database.

N:

General format: note number period author first name last name comma open quotes dissertation title close quotes open parenthesis type of paper comma academic institution comma publication year close parenthesis comma page numbers comma database or repository name period Example description: 15 period Guadalupe Navarro hyphen Garcia comma open quotes Integrating Social Justice Values in Educational Leadership colon A Study of African American and Black University Presidents close quotes open parenthesis PhD diss period comma University of California comma Los Angeles comma 2016 close parenthesis comma 44 comma ProQuest Dissertations ampersand Theses Global period

B:

General format: author last name comma first name period open quotes dissertation title period close quotes type of paper comma academic institution comma publication year period Database or repository name period Example description: Navarro hyphen Garcia comma Guadalupe period open quotes Integrating Social Justice Values in Educational Leadership colon A Study of African American and Black University Presidents period close quotes PhD diss period comma  University of California comma Los Angeles comma 2016 period ProQuest Dissertations ampersand Theses Global period


Manuscripts & Papers

If more than one item from a collection is cited in notes, cite the collection in the bibliography, not the individual items. Identify document types other than letter, such as telegram, memorandum, etc. (Letter may be omitted, as it is understood if no other document type is specified.)

End with a URL for materials consulted online.

N: 

General format: note number period title comma date comma location comma collection name comma archive name comma archive location period Example description: 18 period Century Pen Company financial report comma 1922 comma box 1 comma folder 9 comma James Nelson Humphrey Papers comma University Archives ampersand Area Research Center comma Harold Andersen Library comma University of Wisconsin hyphen Whitewater comma Whitewater comma WI period

B: 

General format: Collection name period Archive name comma archive location period Example description: James Humphrey Nelson Papers period University Archives ampersand  Area Research Center comma Harold Andersen Library comma University of Wisconsin hyphen Whitewater comma Whitewater comma WI period


Online Collections

N:

General format: note number period title comma date comma location comma collection name comma archive name comma archive location comma U R L period Example description: 19 period Delavan colon Detective Investigation Report 1 comma June 23 comma 1917 comma page 5 hyphen 6 comma Anti hyphen Saloon League of Wisconsin Records comma 1917 hyphen 1918 comma Series 1 colon  Investigations comma Wisconsin Historical Society comma Madison comma  WI comma http colon forward slash forward slash content period wisconsinhitory period org forward slash cdm forward slash ref forward slash collection forward slash tp forward slash id forward slash 41742 period

B:

General format: Collection name comma archive name comma archive location period U R L period Example description: Anti-Saloon League of Wisconsin Records comma 1917 hyphen 1918 period Series 1 colon  Investigations period Wisconsin Historical Society comma Madison comma WI period http colon forward slash forward slash content period wisconsinhistory period org forward slash cdm forward slash ref forward slash collection forward slash tp forward slash id forward slash 41742 period