Exercise 6: A Book (with a very long title)
For this exercise, imagine you wanted to cite page 5 of this book.
Correct footnote:
There is no 'right' answer to this exercise. Your footnote above may look something like this:Humphrey Mill, A Nights Search: Discovering the Nature and Condition of all Sorts of Night-Walkers; with their Associates (London: Richard Bishop, 1640), p. 5.But it could also have looked like this:
Humphrey Mill, A Nights Search (London: Richard Bishop 1640), p. 5.Or this (note the use of dots in square brackets where we omit material from a title):
Humphrey Mill, A Nights Search: Discovering the Nature and Condition of all Sorts of Night-Walkers [...] Together with Diverse Fearfull and Strange Accidents, Occasioned by such Ill Livers (London: Richard Bishop, 1640), p. 5.Or this:
Humphrey Mill, A Nights Search: Discovering the Nature and Condition of all Sorts of Night-Walkers; with their Associates. As also, the Life and Death of Many of them. Together with Diverse Fearfull and Strange Accidents, Occasioned by such Ill Livers (London: Richard Bishop, 1640), p. 5.