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HOW TO CITE YOUR SOURCES PROPERLY

 

Remember:  When you prepare your Works Cited pages, you must cite your sources properly.

In the case of WEB SITES or ARTICLES FROM ELECTRONIC DATABASES, you must include MORE THAN the web address!

Here's how!

WEB SITES:

Find the following from the web site.  You might have to go back to the home page, look at the bottom of pages, or look at the "contact" or "about us" pages.  Sometimes you really have to dig for the information! 

FIND:

--Name of the author of the web page or article

     Last name, first name.

--Title of the web page or article in the web site

     "Title of the Web Page or Article."

--Name of the web site

     Name of the Web Page.

--Date of the web page/article or (if you can't find  that) the "last

  updated" date of the page or site

     date month (abbreviated if longer month) year

     1 May 2006

     25 Nov. 2005

--Publisher or person/organization responsible for the web site

     Name of person or organization.

--the date on which you accessed the web site

     date month (abbreviate if longer month) year

     2 April 2004

     31 Dec. 2005

--the URL (web address) of the web site (use angle brackets

  before and after <   >

    <http://www.wwwyyy.com/search/find.htm>.

EXAMPLE:

Kirk, James.  "The Trouble with Tribbles."  Star Trek Revisited.

      2 Jan. 2006.  Trekkies Unlimited.  5 May 2006

      <http://trek4ever.tv/episodes/tribbles.htm>.

DON'T FORGET TO SKIP LINES WITHIN YOUR CITATIONS AND TO INDENT THE SECOND AND SUBSEQUENT LINES OF EACH CITATION!

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ARTICLES FROM ELECTRONIC DATABASES:

Usually when you use articles from our electronic databases (EBSCO, SIRS, FACTS ON FILE NEWS SERVICES, INFORTRAC, or PROQUEST), you will be provided with all the information you need to create the CITATION.  Sometimes, the database service will even give you the complete citation!  That is one of the benefits of using information from the electronic databases.

Here is the information you need to cite an article or information from an ELECTRONIC DATABASE:

--Author of the article

    Last name, first name.

--Title of the article or document

    "Title of the Article of Document."

--Title of original source: magazine, newspaper, other periodical

    Title of the Original Source.

--Date and pages of original article

    Date: pages.

--Name of Database

    Name of Database.

--Name of Service or Publisher of Database

    Name of Service or Publisher of Database.

--Name of Library through which you accessed the database and

  the city and state in which it is located.

    Name of Library and City, State.

--the date on which you accessed the database

     date month (abbreviate if longer month) year

     2 April 2004

     31 Dec. 2005

--the URL (web address) of the service (use angle brackets

  before and after <   >

    <http://sirs.com>.

 

EXAMPLE:

Andrews, Joanne.  "Why I Love Libraries."  Libraries

     International .  July 2005: 27-30.  SIRS Researcher.  ProQuest

     Learning.  Bishop Gorman High School Library, Las Vegas,

     NV.  1 April 2006 <http://www.sirs.com>.

DON'T FORGET TO SKIP LINES WITHIN YOUR CITATIONS AND TO INDENT THE SECOND AND SUBSEQUENT LINES OF EACH CITATION!