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If there is no DOI, it is acceptable to use URL in order to link the article to your work. If you possess both URL and DOI, always use the latter.

Cliff, Amy Fish. “’What Are We Doing Here’: Eastern Cherokee Civil Authorities and Sovereign Territorial Rights.” American Indian Quarterly 36, no. 2 (2013): 234-269. doi: /1d11d977-389e.

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1. Amy Fish Cliff, “’What Are We Doing Here’: Eastern Cherokee Civil Authorities and Sovereign Territorial Rights,” American Indian Quarterly 36, no. 2 (2013): 234-269, doi: /1d11d977-389e.

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“Higher Education in the Hi-Tech Age: Higher Education Leadership Forum.” The Chronicle of Higher Education 52, no. 16 (2005): 105-107. doi: /1001oi567.

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1. “Higher Education in the Hi-Tech Age: Higher Education Leadership Forum,” The Chronicle of Higher Education 52, no. 16 (2005): 105-107, doi: /1001oi567.

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“Trump is Going to Ruin America.” BBC, January 17, 2017. Accessed January 20, 2017. http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/389742289.

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1. “Trump is Going to Ruin America,” BBC, January17, 2017, accessed January 20, 2017, http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/389742289.

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Mace, Lina. “Visiting Professor Lectures on Painting.” Exponent (West Lafayette, IN), October 26, 2011. http://www.purdueexponent.org/features/article_6gh3a2814-cd52-5f16-87b3-7c013123133e8f.html.

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1. Lina Mace, “Visiting Professor Lectures on Painting,” Exponent (West Lafayette, IN), October 26, 2011, http://www.purdueexponent.org/features/article_6gh3a2814-cd52-5f16-87b3-7c013123133e8f.html.

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