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Subsequent reference: Shortened form

Same work and author; only source by that author

Give the author's last name and page reference.

Full citation:

12. Ernest Kaiser, "The Literature of Harlem," in Harlem: A Community in Transition, ed. J. H. Clarke (New York: Citadel Press, 1964), 64.

Subsequent reference

21. Kaiser, 65.

Two or more works by same author

Use the last name, a shortened title, and page reference.

Full citation:

4. Donald N. McCloskey, Enterprise and Trade inVictorian Britain: Essays in Historical Economics. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1981), 54.

5. Donald N. McCloskey, The Applied Theory of Price, 2nd ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1985), 24.

Subsequent reference

22. McCloskey, Enterprise and Trade, 61.

Two authors with the same last name

Give the full name in the shortened reference.