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National Historic Landmarks Program
Use The Chicago Manual of Style published by the University of Chicago Press and the American Antiquity style guide for archeological properties. Include only information pertinent to the property and its eligibility.
Examples of how to properly cite sources in your footnotes using The Chicago Manual of Style:
Book:
One author
N(ote): 1. Beth Savage, ed., African American Historic Places (Washington, DC: Preservation Press, 1994), 69.
Chapter or other part of a book
N: 5. Andrew Wiese, “‘The House I Live In': Race, Class, and African American Suburban Dreams in the Postwar United States,” in The New Suburban History, ed. Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), 101–102.
Oral History Interview:
N: 8. Benjamin Spock, interview by Milton J. Sean, November 20, 1974, interview 67A, transcript, Senn Oral History Collection, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
National Register of Historic Places or National Historic Landmark Nomination Form:
N: 3. Susan L. Flader, “Aldo Leopold Shack,” National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1978), Section 8.
HABS-HAER Report:
N: 16. Sarah Eaton, “Pan American Airways System Terminal Building, 3500 Pan American Drive, Miami, FL,” Historic American Buildings Survey Report [HABS No. FL-36] (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1981), 2.
Historic Structures Report:
N: Cultural Resources Division, Southeast Regional Office, “Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Bodie Island Lighthouse and Oil House Historic Structure Report” (Atlanta: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, December 2004).
Examples of how to properly format in-text citations using American Antiquity:
Simple citation
(Wylie 1991) or Wylie (1991)
Primary-source materials (e.g., unpublished archival materials including administrative records, letters, etc.)
(Archivo General de la Nación , Lima [AGN], Juzgado de Aguas 3.3.7.23, f. 3v); note that subsequent citations would use only the acronym AGN and the shortened "Aguas" (e.g., AGN, Aguas 3.3.4.39, 3.3.9.9)
Newspapers
(Weekly Missouri Courier [WMC], 7 July 1838:page numbers [if available])
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