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Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
How to Properly Cite Data


Electronic resources are well established as a means of information dissemination. The purpose of making a reference to an electronic resource is to give enough information so that it can be located as well as acknowledge those authors whose intellectual works are in electronic format.

Users of these data are requested to cite them properly. Below are examples of the proper citation for each of these works. You should consult a proper style manual and modify the example to maintain consistency in punctuation and typeface.

Curtin, Philip D. and Herbert S. Klein. Records of Slave Ship Movement Between Africa and the Americas, 1817-1843 [machine-readable data file]. 2nd DPLS ed., 1973, 1997. Madison, WI: Data and Information Services Center [distributor]; http://www.disc.wisc.edu/slavedata/slaintro1.html; ().

Curtin, Philip D. Slave Ships of Eighteenth Century France, 1748-1756, 1763-1792 [machine-readable data file]. 1st DPLS ed., 1968, 1997. Madison, WI: Data and Information Services Center [distributor]; http://www.disc.wisc.edu/slavedata/slaintro2.html; ().

Klein, Herbert S. Slave Trade to Rio de Janeiro, 1795-1811 [machine-readable data file]. 1st DPLS ed., 1969, 1997. Madison, WI: Data and Information Services Center [distributor]; http://www.disc.wisc.edu/slavedata/slaintro3.html; ().

Klein, Herbert S. Virginia Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century, 1727-1769 [machine-readable data file]. 1st DPLS ed., 1974, 1997. Madison, WI: Data and Information Services Center [distributor]; http://www.disc.wisc.edu/slavedata/slaintro4.html; ().

Klein, Herbert S. English Slave Trade, 1791-1799 (House of Lords Survey) [machine-readable data file]. 1st DPLS ed., 1974?, 1997. Madison, WI: Data and Information Services Center [distributor]; http://www.disc.wisc.edu/slavedata/slaintro5.html; ().

Klein, Herbert S. Angola Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century, 1723-1771 [machine-readable data file]. DPLS ed., 1970?, 1997. Madison, WI: Data and Information Services Center [distributor]; http://www.disc.wisc.edu/slavedata/slaintro6.html; ().

Klein, Herbert S. Slave Trade to Rio de Janeiro, 1825-1830 [machine-readable data file]. DPLS ed., 197?, 1997. Madison, WI: Data and Information Services Center [distributor]; http://www.disc.wisc.edu/slavedata/slaintro7.html; ().

Klein, Herbert S. Internal Slave Trade to Rio de Janeiro, 1852 [machine-readable data file]. DPLS ed., 197?, 1997. Madison, WI: Data and Information Services Center [distributor]; http://www.disc.wisc.edu/slavedata/slaintro8.html; ().

Klein, Herbert S. Slave Trade to Havana, Cuba, 1790-1820 [machine-readable data file]. DPLS ed., 197?. Madison, WI: Data and Information Services Center [distributor]; http://www.disc.wisc.edu/slavedata/slaintro9.html; ().

Klein, Herbert S. Nantes Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century, 1711-1791 [machine-readable data file]. DPLS ed., 197?. Madison, WI: Data and Information Services Center [distributor]; http://www.disc.wisc.edu/slavedata/slaintro10.html; ().

Engerman, Stanley L. and Herbert S. Klein. Slave Trade to Jamaica, 1782-1788, 1805-1808 [machine-readable data file]. DPLS ed., 1974. Madison, WI: Data and Information Services Center [distributor]; http://www.disc.wisc.edu/slavedata/slaintro11.html; ().

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