Encyclopedias and Reference Books

Encyclopedia 

"Mandarin." The Encyclopedia Americana. 1994 ed.

Common reference book

"Noon." The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 1989.

An article in a less familiar reference book

Le Patourel, John. "Normans and Normandy." Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Ed. Joseph 

        R. Strayer. 13 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1987.

The Bible

The New Jerusalem Bible. Henry Wansbrough, gen. ed. New York: Doubleday, 1985.

Sample parenthetical reference

In one of the most vivid prophetic visions in the Bible, Ezekiel saw "what seemed to be four living creatures," each with the faces of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle (New Jerusalem Bible, Ezek. 1.5-10). John of Patmos echoes this passage when describing his vision (Rev. 4.6-8).