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Some Examples

In text citations:

Either:
(1) This latter assumption is important, for it is precisely this that underpins the Leninist theory of the vanguard (Polan, 1984)...

Or
(2) As Paul Hirst (1990, p.167) points out, by conceptualising the...

References:

Bobbio, Norberto (1987). Which Socialism? Marxism, Socialism and Democracy. Tr. Roger Griffin (Cambridge: Polity Press).

Hudson, Peter and Stephen Louw (1992). `Conceptual vicissitudes: Socialism and democracy in Has Socialism Failed?', Politikon: The South African Journal of Political Science, 19 (3), pp. 25-44.

Moore, David (2005). `When I am a Century Old: Why Robert Mugabe Won't Go', in: Roger Southall and Henning Melber (Eds.), Legacies of Power: Leadership Change and Former Presidents in Africa (Cape Town and Uppsala: HSRC Press and Nordic Africa Institute).

Internet sources:

International Crisis Group (ICG) (2005). `Post-election Zimbabwe: What next?', Africa Report No. 93, 7 June. Available online at: http://www.crisisgroup.org (accessed 24 June, 2006).

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