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Lives of Chinese Books (Book of Songs)

Citation Styles

APA Citation Style (6th Ed.)

See pages 40-41 in the manual for more detail.

Sample citation for a dissertation retrieved from ProQuest database:
Aguiar, L. (2001). The ‘dirt' on the contract cleaning industry in Toronto:
     Cleanliness and work reorganization (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved 
     from Proquest Dissertations & Theses. (Publication number AAT NQ67931)

Sample citation for a thesis retrieved from an online database:
Gibson, L. S. (2007). Considering critical thinking and History 12: One 
     teacher's story (Master's thesis). Retrieved from https://circle.ubc.ca/

MLA Citation Style (7th Ed.)

See p. 180 #5.5.26 & p. 187 #5.6.2c & p. 192 #5.6.4 in the manual for more detail. Note: To cite a master's thesis, substitute the appropriate label (e.g. MA thesis, MS thesis) for Diss.

Sample citation for a dissertation retrieved from ProQuest database:
Blum, Martin Albert. "Body Politics: Otherness and the Representation of 
     Bodies in Late Medieval Writings." Diss. U of British Columbia, 1997. 
     ProQuest Digital Dissertations Web. 22 Dec. 2010.

Sample citation for a thesis retrieved from an online database:
Wilson, Freeda Catherine. "A Model for Translating Metaphors in Proverbs 
     (French to English): A Cognitive Descriptive Approach." MA thesis. U of 
     British Columbia, 2009. cIRcle: UBC's Information Repository. Web. 4 
     Apr. 2011.

Chicago Citation Style (16th Ed.)

See pages 746-747 (#14.224) in the manual for more detail. Note: The examples below are for a bibliographic entry. For footnotes/endnotes rearrange the pieces of the citation below following the basic format of a book citation.

Sample citation for a dissertation retrieved from ProQuest database:
Rose, John Stanley. "Charting Citizenship: The Political Participation of 
     Immigrants in Richmond and Surrey, British Columbia." PhD diss., 
     University of British Columbia, 2007. ProQuest (AAT NR31918).   

Sample citation for a thesis retrieved from an online database:
Brillinger, Marc A. "Silence Descends: The Effects of Rising Authoritarianism 
     and Fear on Citizen Engagement." Master's thesis, University of British 
     Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/17437