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ESQ Thoreau Style Sheet

Citation form for frequently used editions

The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau series

Henry D. Thoreau, Cape Cod, ed. Joseph J. Moldenhauer, The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau

(Princeton: Princeton UP, 1971), 65; hereafter cited parenthetically as W.

Henry D. Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, ed. Carl F. Hovde et al., The

Writings of Henry D. Thoreau (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980), 379; hereafter cited

parenthetically as W.

Journal

reference in the notes as follows, then cite all subsequent references parenthetically.

Neufeldt and Nancy Craig Simmons, The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau (Princeton:

Princeton UP, 1992), 184; hereafter cited as J.

Other Often-Used Sources

Henry David Thoreau, Collected Poems of Henry Thoreau, enl. ed., ed. Carl Bode (Baltimore:

Johns Hopkins UP, 1964), 81.

Henry David Thoreau, The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, ed. Bradford Torrey and Francis H.

Allen, 14 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906), 3:381–82.

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Walden Pond

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers can be shortened (silently) to A Week in the text,

after an initial full reference (alternatively, Week if article is awkward, such as Thoreau’s Week)