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Monatshefte uses endnotes, not footnotes. References in endnotes differ from those in bibliographies. Guidelines differ for initial and subsequent notes of the same work. Complete bibliographic information is given in the initial citation. In subsequent citations only the last name of the author and the title are given along with the page number(s).
Our bibliographic style in endnotes is similar to that used in the MLA Handbook (6th Edition) for Works Cited, with several changes. The author’s name is separated from the title not by a period, but by a comma, and the author is listed First Name Last Name. While we use quotation marks around the titles of articles, poems, etc., we use italics (not underlining) to mark the titles of books. Publication information is enclosed in parentheses. The general format is:
Name, Title, (Publication information).
Book
1 Frank Barsch, Ansichten einer Figur. Die Darstellung der Intellektuellen in Martin Walsers Prosa (Heidelberg: Winter, 2000).
2 Stanley Rhine, Bone Voyage: A Journey in Forensic Anthropology (Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1998).
3 Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life. Trans. E.F.N. Jephcott (London: Verso, 1974) 45.
Subsequent book citation
4 Barsch, Ansichten einer Figur 56.
Anthology
5 D. Leopold, ed., Identifikation unbekannter Toter. Interdisziplinäre Methodik, forensische Osteologie (Lübeck: Schmidt Römhild, 1998).
Edition
6 Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Werke. Hamburger Ausgabe in 14 Bänden. Ed. Erich Trunz. 8th ed. (München: Beck 1978).
7 Hartmann von Aue, Der arme Heinrich. Ed. Burghart Wachinger (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1996).
Article in Book
8 August Kasper, “The Doctor and Death,” The Meaning of Death. Ed. Herman Feifel (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959) 259–70.
Article in Journal
9 Lilian Friedberg, “Dare to Compare: Americanizing the Holocaust,” American Indian Quarterly 23.3 (2000) 353–80.
Subsequent article citation
10 Kasper, “The Doctor and Death” 14.
11 Friedberg, “Dare to Compare” 361.
Website
12 Brian Magrane, M.G.F. Gillilan and Dana M. King, “Certification of Death by Family Physicians,” American Family Physician 56.5 (1997) <http://www.aafp.org/afp/971001ap/magrane.html>.