Item I want is not at Hostos Library Accessing online resources from off-campus Basic internet skills I want to find a specific book I know the title or author What about using books for research? Printing and photocopying Talk to a librarian. Basic definitions When you include information from a source in a paper, presentation, or other project, you must give credit to the source's author.
Some definitions: Direct Quote: Someone else's exact words, placed in quotation marks and followed by a parenthetical citation. Paraphrase: Someone else's ideas explained in your own words, followed by a parenthetical citation. Summary: Similar to a paraphrase, but used to give an overview of many ideas explained in your own words. Things to include when quoting or paraphrasing a source: Introductory phrase: More about signal phrases or introductory phrases from St.
Louis Community College Source material: A direct quote, paraphrase, or summary with proper citation Your own writing that gives context to the source material: the source material quotes, paraphrases are like the chocolate chips, and your own original writing is the cookie dough. Your writing is what holds everything together! Always properly cite an author's original idea, regardless of whether you have directly quoted or paraphrased it. There are two kinds of citation: 1 a short little tag that appears in the main text of the article, essay, or book "in text" , and 2 a much more detailed citation that comes in a list at the end of the article, essay, or book called a "reference list" or "works cited list" or "bibliography" Readers look at the short in-text citation and then if they want more information, they look up the rest of the information in the longer list at the end.
In-text citations These are short so that they don't interrupt the flow of reading. What the matching end-of-work citation would look like: Smith, B. This longer citation shows me: Author : B. Smith Date of publication : Title of article : "Survey of pizza-folders and their preferences" Title of journal where the article was published: Journal of Pizzaology Volume of the journal : 2 usually journals publish one volume per year, so was probably the second year that this journal existed Issue : 6 so this would probably be the 6th issue that was published that year Page numbers : What is a citation style?
Copyright Law. The most effective way to avoid plagiarism is to take the time to cite your sources correctly. Citing or citation is the way that you give credit to the original author or source of the information. Depending on the professor and your program of study, there are several citation formats that are used.
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This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. If you continue with this browser, you may see unexpected results. The Importance of Citing Giving credit to the ideas of others makes your ideas and proposals more believable. Use [ sic ] after something in the quote that is grammatically incorrect or spelled incorrectly. This shows your reader that the mistake is in the original, not your writing.
Jorge interviewed a dietitian as part of his research, and he decided to quote her words in his paper. Sure, for some people, they are great, but for most, any sensible eating and exercise plan would work just as well.
Notice how Jorge smoothly integrated the quoted material by starting the sentence with an introductory phrase.
Remember, what you write in essays should be primarily your own words; your instructors want to know what your ideas are and for you to demonstrate your own critical thinking. This means you should only use the ideas of experts in the form of quotes to support your ideas.
A paper that consists of mostly quotes pieced together does not demonstrate original thought but rather that you are good at cutting and pasting. Therefore, you should strive to state your ideas, develop them thoroughly, and then insert a supporting quote, and only if necessary.
Focus on paraphrasing and integrating and blending those external sources into your own ideas giving the original author credit by using a citation, of course. When deciding to use any quotation as opposed to paraphrasing, you need to make sure the quote is a statement that the original author has worded so beautifully it would be less effective if you changed it into your own words.
When you find something you would like to include verbatim word for word from a source, you need to decide if you should include the whole paragraph or section, or a smaller part.
Sometimes, you may choose to use a longer quote but remove any unnecessary words. You would then use ellipses to show what content you have removed. The following examples show how this is done. A short quote can be as one word or a phrase or a complete sentence as long as three lines of text again, removing any unnecessary words. Generally, a short quotation is one that is fewer than 40 words.
Whether you use a complete sentence or only part of one, you need to make sure it blends in perfectly with your own sentence or paragraph. For example, if your paragraph is written in the present tense but the quote is in the past, you will need to change the verb, so it will fit into your writing. You will read about on this shortly. Using an attributive tag is another way to help incorporate your quote more fluidly. An attributive tag is a phrase that shows your reader you got the information from a source, and you are giving the author attribution or credit for his or her ideas or words.
Using an attributive tag allows you to provide a citation at the same time as helping integrate the quote more smoothly into your work. In the example above, the attributive tag with citation is underlined; this statement is giving Marshall credit for his own words and ideas. If you were to include only a portion of that sentence, perhaps excerpting from the middle of it, you would not start the quote with a capital.
In this example, notice how the student has only used a portion of the sentence, so did not need to include the capital. For short quotations, use quotation marks to indicate where the quoted material begins and ends, and cite the name of the author s , the year of publication, and the page number where the quotation appears in your source.
Remember to include commas to separate elements within the parenthetical citation. Also, avoid redundancy. If you name the author s in your sentence, do not repeat the name s in your parenthetical citation. Review following the examples of different ways to cite direct quotations. Note that when a parenthetical citation appears at the end of the sentence, it comes after the closing quotation marks and before the period. The elements within parentheses are separated by commas.
Include the page number in the parenthetical citation. Also, notice the use of the verb asserts to introduce the direct quotation. Although APA style guidelines do not require writers to provide page numbers for material that is not directly quoted, your instructor may wish you to do so when possible.
Check with your instructor about his or her preferences. Long quotations should be used even more sparingly than shorter ones. Long quotations can range in length from four to seven or eight lines 40 words or more, and should never be as long as a page. If you believe you have found the perfect paragraph to support your ideas, and you decide you really want or need to use the long quote, see if you can shorten it by removing unnecessary words or complete sentences and put ellipses in their place.
This will again show your reader that you have put a lot of thought into the use of the quote and that you have included it just because you did not want to do any thinking. Be wary of quoting from sources at length. Remember, your ideas should drive the paper, and quotations should be used to support and enhance your points. Make sure any lengthy quotations that you include serve a clear purpose. Generally, no more than 10 to 15 percent of a paper should consist of quoted material.
As with short quotations, you need to make sure long quotations fit into your writing. To introduce a long quote, you need to include a stem this can include an attributive tag followed by a colon :. The stem is underlined in the example below. Much of the population—especially younger males—frequently engaged in violence by participating in saloon fights and shootouts and gun fights. In example, you can see the stem clearly introduces the quote in a grammatically correct way, leading into the quote fluidly.
When you quote a longer passage from a source—40 words or more—you need to use a different format to set off the quoted material. Instead of using quotation marks, create a block quotation by starting the quotation on a new line and indented five spaces from the margin. Note that in this case, the parenthetical citation comes after the period that ends the sentence. If the passage continues into a second paragraph, indent a full tab five spaces again in the first line of the second paragraph.
Here is an example:. In recent years, many writers within the fitness industry have emphasized the ways in which women can benefit from weight-bearing exercise, such as weightlifting, karate, dancing, stair climbing, hiking, and jogging. Additionally, these exercises help women maintain muscle mass and overall strength, and many common forms of weight bearing exercise, such as brisk walking or stair climbing, also provide noticeable cardiovascular benefits.
It is important to note that swimming cannot be considered a weight-bearing exercise, since the water supports and cushions the swimmer. Look at the long block quotation example above. Identify four differences between how it is formatt ed and how you would format a short quotation.
You may want to single space the quote, but not the main part of your essay. This will allow the long block quotation to stand out even more.
Do not use quotation marks; they are unnecessary because the spacing and indenting and citation will tell your reader this is a quote. Throughout the body of your paper, you must include a citation whenever you quote or paraphrase material from your research sources. The purpose of citations is twofold: to give credit to others for their ideas and to allow your reader to follow up and learn more about the topic if desired.
Your in-text citations provide basic information about your source; you will provide more detailed information for each source you cite in text in the references section. In-text citations must provide the name of the author or authors and the year the source was published. When a given source does not list an individual author, you may provide the source title or the name of the organization that published the material instead.
When directly quoting a source, you must include the page number where the quote appears in the work being cited. This information may be included within the sentence or in a parenthetical reference at the end of the sentence, as in these examples. The page number appears in parentheses after the closing quotation marks and before the period that ends the sentence. Again, the parenthetical citation is placed after the closing quotation marks and before the period at the end of the sentence. Here, the writer chose to mention the source title in the sentence an optional piece of information to include and followed the title with a parenthetical citation.
Note that in this example the parenthetical citation is placed before the comma that signals the end of the introductory phrase. Another variation is to introduce the author and the source title in your sentence and include the publication date and page number in parentheses within the sentence or at the end of the sentence.
As long as you have included the essential information, you can use the option that works best for that particular sentence and source. Citing a book with a single author is usually straightforward. Of course, your research may require that you cite many other types of sources, such as books or articles with more than one author or sources with no individual author listed.
You may also need to cite sources available in both print and online and nonprint sources, such as websites and personal interviews. In each of the sentences below, identify the mistakes with how the quote was incorporated.
Look carefully; some of them are tricky and have more than one error. Freedom of research is undoubtedly a cherished ideal in our society. In that respect, research has an interest in being free, independent, and unrestricted. Such interests weigh against regulations. On the other hand, research should also be valid, verifiable, and unbiased, to attain the overarching goal of gaining obtaining generalisable knowledge Simonsen, , p.
According to Emlet, the rate in which older adults have contracted HIV has grown exponentially. Emlet, The second one is redundant. There is an extra period before the citation. With a short quote, you put the end punctuation after the citation. The following subsections discuss the correct format for various types of in-text citations.
Read them through quickly to get a sense of what is covered, and then refer to them again as needed. Include a page reference whenever you quote a source directly. See also the guidelines presented earlier in this chapter about when to include a page reference for paraphrased material.
At times, your research may include multiple works by the same author. If the works were published in different years, a standard in-text citation will serve to distinguish them.
If you are citing multiple works by the same author published in the same year, include a lowercase letter immediately after the year. Rank the sources in the order they appear in your references section.
The source listed first should include an a after the year, the source listed second should include a b , and so on. Rodriguez a criticized the nutrition supplement industry for making unsubstantiated and sometimes misleading claims about the benefits of taking supplements.
Additionally, he warned that consumers frequently do not realize the potential harmful effects of some popular supplements Rodriguez, b. In this case, this is acceptable because this is referring to a different source written by the same person.
Do so even if the publication years are different. Williams believes nutritional supplements can be a useful part of some diet and fitness regimens. Williams , however, believes these supplements are overrated. According to two leading researchers, the rate of childhood obesity exceeds the rate of adult obesity K. Connelley, ; O. Connelley, Studies from both A. Wright and C. Wright confirm the benefits of diet and exercise on weight loss.
Use the word and , however, if the names appear in your sentence. Et al. Note that these examples follow the same ampersand conventions as sources with two authors. As Henderson et al. Disturbingly, some young women use smoking as a means of appetite suppression Henderson et al. Note how the phrase et al. There is no period comes after et , but there is one with al. In parenthetical references, include a comma after et al. Researchers have found that outreach work with young people has helped reduce tobacco use in some communities Costello et al.
Lengthy organization names with well-known abbreviations can be abbreviated. In your first citation, use the full name, followed by the abbreviation in square brackets. Subsequent citations may use the abbreviation only. Another cause for concern is that even if patients realize that they have had a stroke and need medical attention, they may not know which nearby facilities are best equipped to treat them AHA, You may use the full title in your sentence or use the first few words—enough to convey the key ideas—in a parenthetical reference.
Follow standard conventions for using italics or quotations marks with titles:. To cite a source that is referred to within another secondary source, name the first source in your sentence. Then, in parentheses, use the phrase as cited in and the name of the second source author. At times, you may provide more than one citation in a parenthetical reference, such as when you are discussing related works or studies with similar results.
List the citations in the same order they appear in your references section, and separate the citations with a semicolon. Both of these researchers authored works that support the point being made in this sentence, so it makes sense to include both in the same citation. In some cases, you may need to cite an extremely well-known work that has been repeatedly republished or translated. Many works of literature and sacred texts, as well as some classic nonfiction texts, fall into this category.
For these works, the original date of publication may be unavailable. If so, include the year of publication or translation for your edition. Refer to specific parts or chapters if you need to cite a specific section. Discuss with your instructor whether he or she would like you to cite page numbers in this particular instance. In this example, the student is citing a classic work of psychology, originally written in German and later translated to English.
To cite an introduction, foreword, preface, or afterword, cite the author of the material and the year, following the same format used for other print materials.
Whenever possible, cite electronic sources as you would print sources, using the author, the date, and where appropriate, a page number. For some types of electronic sources—for instance, many online articles—this information is easily available. Other times, however, you will need to vary the format to reflect the differences in online media.
If an online source has no page numbers but you want to refer to a specific portion of the source, try to locate other information you can use to direct your reader to the information cited. Some websites number paragraphs within published articles; if so, include the paragraph number in your citation. Precede the paragraph number with the abbreviation for the word paragraph and the number of the paragraph e. Even if a source does not have numbered paragraphs, it is likely to have headings that organize the content.
In your citation, name the section where your cited information appears, followed by a paragraph number. This student cited the appropriate section heading within the website and then counted to find the specific paragraph where the cited information was located. If an online source has no listed author and no date, use the source title and the abbreviation n.
For personal communications, such as interviews, letters, and emails, cite the name of the person involved, clarify that the material is from a personal communication, and provide the specific date the communication took place. Note that while in-text citations correspond to entries in the references section, personal communications are an exception to this rule. They are cited only in the body text of your paper. Yardley, M.
At work, you may sometimes share information resources with your colleagues by photocopying an interesting article or forwarding the URL of a useful website. Your goal in these situations and in formal research citations is the same: to provide enough information to help your professional peers locate and follow up on potentially useful information.
Provide as much specific information as possible to achieve that goal, and consult with your supervisor or professor as to what specific style he or she may prefer. The brief citations included in the body of your paper correspond to the more detailed citations provided at the end of the paper in the references section. In-text citations are necessary within your writing to show where you have borrowed ideas or quoted directly from another author.
These are kept short because you do not want to disrupt the flow of your writing and distract the reader. While the in-text citation is very important, it is not enough to enable yourreaders to locate that source if they would like to use it for their own research. The references section of your essay may consist of a single page for a brief research paper or may extend for many pages in professional journal articles.
This section provides detailed information about how to create the references section of your paper. You will review basic formatting guidelines and learn how to format bibliographical entries for various types of sources. As you create this section of your paper, follow the guidelines provided here. To set up your references section, use the insert page break feature of your word processing program to begin a new page.
Note that the header and margins will be the same as in the body of your paper, and pagination will continue from the body of your paper. In other words, if you set up the body of your paper correctly, the correct header and page number should appear automatically in your references section.
For magazine and journal articles, the volume number, issue number, and pages where the article appears. Before you start compiling your own references and translating referencing information from possibly other styles into APA style, you need to be able to identify each piece of information in the reference. This can sometimes be challenging because the different styles format the information differently and may put it in different places within the reference.
However, the types of information each of the referencing styles requires is generally the same. Once you find the referencing format you need in the guide, you can study the example and follow the structure to set up your own citations. The style guide also provides examples for how to do the in-text citation for quotes and paraphrasing from that type of source. You may be asking yourself why you cannot just use the reference that is often provided on the first page of the source like a journal article , but you need to remember that not all authors use APA style referencing, or even if they do, they may not use the exact formatting you need to follow.
Putting together a references page becomes a lot easier once you recognize the types of information you continually see in references. For example, anytime you see something italicized for APA or underlined in MLA , you know it is the title of the major piece of writing, such as a book with chapters or an academic journal with multiple articles.
Take a look at the examples below. If you are sourcing a chapter from a book, do not italicize the title of the chapter; instead, use double quotes. You also need to include the pages of the chapter within the book. You do italicize the title of the book, similar to the journal article example above. The following box provides general guidelines for formatting the reference page.
For the remainder of this chapter, you will learn about how to format reference entries for different source types, including multi-author and electronic sources. Include the heading References, centred at the top of the page.
The heading should not be boldfaced, italicized, or underlined. Use hanging indentation for each entry. The first line should be flush with the left margin, while any lines that follow should be indented five spaces. Hanging indentation is the opposite of normal indenting rules for paragraphs.
For a work with multiple authors, use the last name of the first author listed. Use sentence case for all other titles—books, articles, web pages, and other source titles. Capitalize the first word of the title.
Do not capitalize any other words in the title except for the following:. Use italics for book and journal titles. Do not use italics, underlining, or quotation marks for titles of shorter works, such as articles.
There are many word processing programs and websites available that allow you to just plug in your referencing information and it will format it to the style required. If you decide to use such a program, you must still check all your references against your referencing guide because the way those programs and sites piece the information together may not be the exact way you are expected to do so at your school.
Always double check!
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