Footnote/Endnote Formats

Religion 151 Chinese Religious Thought

 

General Rules

1. Cite the full information (given below) first time only. Thereafter, use an appropriate abberviation, usually an abbreviation of the title. For example, You can useSecular as Sacred as the reference for Fingarette's work and Analects for Lau's translation of The Analects.

2. The examples listed below do not give page numbers. Page numbers should come at the end, separated by a comma from the rest of the reference. There should be a period after the page numbers. There is no need to use an abbreviation for "page," such as "p."

Examples:

First citation:

Herbert Fingarette, Confucius-The Secular as Sacred (New York: HarperCollins, 1972), 33.

Second citation:

Secular as Sacred, 45.

3. Be careful with punctuation.

4. In footnotes and endnotes, first names come first, last names last.

5. For articles and books not listed, just use the formats given and apply them to the source that you wish to cite.

 

Lectures

Mark T. Unno, Lecture, Religion 151 Chinese Religious Thought, Carleton College, 9/14/97.

 

Required Texts

Herbert Fingarette, Confucius-The Secular as Sacred (New York: HarperCollins, 1972).

D. C. Lau, tr., Confucius-The Analects (New York: Penguin, 1979).

D. C. Lau, Lao Tzu-Tao Te Ching (New York: Penguin, 1963).

D. C. Lau, Mencius (New York: Penguin, 1970).

Burton Watson, tr., Chuang Tzu (New York: Columbia University Press, 1964).

Burton Watson, tr., Hsun Tzu (New York: Columbia University Press, 1963).

8. Mark Unno, ed. Course Reader-Religion 151 Chinese Religious Thought (Northfield, MN: Carleton College, 1997).

 

Web Page Resources Cite the URL. For example,

http://macmunno.religion.carleton.edu/Courses9899/R1519899/R151Syllabus9899.htm

Articles in the Course Reader (Do not cite the Course Reader as a source except in cases where there is no source other than the Course Reader, such as the Key Terms.)

Key Terms I, Course Reader R151 Chinese Religious Thought (Northfield: Carleton College, 1997).

(Note: All articles below are cited in footnote/endnote format.)

A. C. Graham, "A Conservative Reaction: Confucius," Disputers of the Tao (LaSalle, IL: Open Court, 1989), 9-22.

Philip J. Ivanhoe, "Reweaving the 'One Thread' of the Analects," Philosophy East & West 40:1 (January 1990), 17-33.

Philip J. Ivanhoe, "Confucian Moral Self-Cultivation and Mencian Extension," unpublished paper, Stanford University, 1996, 1-18.

Philip J. Ivanhoe, "Comments on Lau's Translation of the Tao Te-ching," Course Reader R151 Chinese Religious Thought (Northfield: Carleton College, 1997).

Philip J. Ivanhoe, "The Concept of de in the Daodejing," unpublished paper, Stanford University, 1995, 1-18.

Philip J. Ivanhoe, "Zhuangzi on Skepticism, Skill, and the Ineffable Dao," Journal of the American Academy of Religion LX:4, 639-654.

Helmut Wilhelm, "Death and Renewal," in his Lectures on the I Ching (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979), 135-165.

Dan Lerman, "Language and the Nature of Distinctions: An Analysis of Hsun Tzu and Chuang Tzu, unpublished paper, 1996. 3-13.

Philip J. Ivanhoe, "A Happy Symmetry-Xunzi's Ethical Thought," Journal of the American Academy of Religion LIX:2, 309-322.

Philip J. Ivanhoe, "Moral Understanding and Human Nature in Xunzi," International Philosophical Quarterly 34:2 (June 1994).