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Annotation online sources

American scientific publications adhere to the rules as are laid down in the Chicago Manual of Style (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago/Londen 1993). These rules deviate slightly on various points from the guidelines of the KNHG. First of all, after the place of publication, the publisher's name is always included following a dubbele punt. Titles of articles and chapters are depicted with double aanhalingstekens, where any eventual leestekens at the end of the title, fall within the aanhalingstekens. There is a dubbele punt in front of the page numbers of a magazine, and in the case that a referral to an article originates from a collection, a dubbele punt follows 'in:'.

One author:

Matthew Frye Jacobson, Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad 1876-1917 (New York: Hill and Wang, 2000).
Short form: Jacobson, Barbarian Virtues, 12.

Three authors:

Leen Dorsman, Ed Jonker and Kees Ribbens, Het zoet en het zuur. Geschiedenis in Nederland (Amsterdam: Wereldbibliotheek, 2000).

Editor:

Elizabeth Evans, ed., Anthroplogy and Photography 1860-1920 (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1992).

Article in edited volume:

Jaap Verheul, "Wandering Between Two Worlds: Matthew Arnold and American Civilization," in Tity de Vries, ed., Dynamics of Modernization: European-American Comparisons and Perceptions (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1998), 33-46.

Journal Article:

Barbara Will, "The Nervous Origins of the American Western," American Literature 70 (June 1998): 293-316.

Newspaper article:

Kate Zernike, "At Yale, a Pro-Slavery Taint. University Backed Abolitionist Movement, But Some of Its Honorees Took Other Side," International Herald Tribune, Friday, August 17, 2001, p. 1.

Reprint:

Frederic Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893; reprint, New York: Ungar Publishing., 1963), 57.

One volume:

The Oxford English Dictionary, vol. I (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1971), 1171-1172.

If you quote from unpublished sources, list the data from specific to general (Letter from X to Y, Date, Box, Series, Collections, Depository):

John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, March 19, 1817, #436, Adams Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA.

Stick to the above mentioned Chicago rules when creating an English bibliography. However, place the author's first name in front. Following the author's first name and the title, there should be a period instead of a comma. The haakjes around the place of publishing, the publisher and the year of publishing fall away.

Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad 1876-1917. New York: Hill and Wang, 2000.
Will, Barbara . "The Nervous Origins of the American Western." American Literature 70 (June 1998): 293-316.

Annotation online sources

In citing an article or source from an Internet site, include the URL and the download date:

William M. Brinton, "The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A New Look at the Peace Process: International Law Matters," Current Affairs Commentary, April 23, 2001, <http://www.us?history.com/middleeast.html> (August 20, 2001).
Frederic J. Frommer, "Sioux Spurn Millions for Black Hills. Beliefs trump government's $570 mil-lion offer," MSNBC, August 19, 2001 <http://www.msnbc.com/news/615910.asp?0nm=N1AO> (August 20, 2001).