HomepageCitation Guide: Listing Sources of Information
Based on MLA Handbook, 5th ed.
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Re-search means gathering information and ideas from someone else's published "search." When you 'borrow' that information for your own work, you must give credit to the source you borrowed from. If you don't, you may be committing a kind of theft called plagiarism. A list of research sources is called a Bibliography (literally, description of books). You can also call it a List of Works Cited or Consulted, especially if you use non-print sources such as audio recordings, videotapes, or TV programs.As you research, create your resource list by entering author, title, and publication information for each source. Below are examples to help you.
PRINT ENCYCLOPEDIA:
ELECTRONIC ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA:
Author name. Title of book. Place of publication: publisher,
year of publication.
PRINT ARTICLE: Hawks, Henry. "Heroes of Antarctic Exploration." National Geographic.ONLINE ARTICLE: Author name. "Title of article." Name of magazine or journal. Publication date: page numbers (if numbered). [Online] Name of database or URL. Date of access. Garvey, Lila. "Physics of Skateboarding." Science World. 14 Oct. 2001. [Online] Ebsco Student Research Center. 7 May 2002.
INTERNET WEB SITE: "Guidelines for Better Writing." [Online.] <http://www.writingbetter.com/guidelines.html>. 18 April 2000.CD-ROM: Title of CD-Rom. Publisher, date of publication. Map Art. MicroMaps Software, 2001.
When you use someone else's exact words or ideas in your work, you must give credit to the source immediately at that point. You place the citation within a set of parentheses after the part that you borrowed. Usually the author's last name and the page where you got the information is enough. Keep these references as brief as possible; if you refer to the author's name in your sentence, you don't need to put it in the parentheses. Gary Paulsen is "a brilliant writer of survival stories" (Jerome p22). For an encyclopedia or other multi-volume source, use the volume number and page number. The country's flora "are some of the most beautiful on the continent" (World Book 7: 254).
Under the Fair Use Exemption of the U.S. Copyright Law, electronic documents such as PowerPoint presentations and Web pages must have the following notice: Some material in this presentation/Website is used under
the Fair Use Exemption of U.S. Copyright Law. Further use is prohibited. For Powerpoint presentations, it should be the first slide or on the opening title screen as well as on any related print material. For Web pages it should be at the bottom of the home page. If you need help, ask Ms. Paciotti or your classroom teacher. |