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1. If an author’s name is in the text, follow it with year in parentheses "...Weber (1930) has demonstrated that...." If an author’s name is not in the text, insert at an appropriate point the last name and year, "...some have claimed (cf. Durkheim 1915) that...."
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5. Enclose a series of references within a single pair of parentheses and separate by semi-colons. "...as many have noted (Yinger 1957; O’Dea 1966; Lenski 1961)...."

7. Format of "References" section at end of manuscript: List all items alphabetically by author and, within author, by year of publication. For typing format, see the following examples:

   McAllister.I. 1988. Religious change and secularization: The Transmission of religious values in Australia. Sociological Analysis 49:249-63.

   Roof, W.C., and C.K. Hadaway. 1977. Shifts in religious preference – the mid-seventies. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 16:409-12.

   _________. 1979. Denominational switching in the seventies: Going beyond Stark and Glock. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 18:363-78.

   Wuthnow, R. 1978. Experimentation in American religion. Berkeley: University of California Press.

   Evans, R.A. 1979. Recovering the church’s transforming middle: Theological reflections on the balance between faithfulness and effectiveness. In Understanding church growth and decline: 1950-1978, edited by D.R. Hoge and D.A. Roozen, 288-314. New York: The Pilgrim Press

   Powell, M., ed. 1967. The voluntary church: Religious life, 1740-1860, seen through the eyes of European visitors. New York: Macmillan.

   New York Times. 1989. What is right and wrong with Roe vs. Wade? The view from friends of the court, 23 April, E6.

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