CITING SOURCES MLA STYLE Why Cite Sources 4

CITING SOURCES MLA STYLE

Why Cite Sources? 4 To avoid plagiarism 4 To credit the source with the original idea or information 4 To lend credibility and authority to a thesis 4 To back up ideas with credible illustrations, known facts, and accepted statistics

Plagiarism 4 Plagiarism is a crime – it is the theft of someone’s else’s words, ideas, or research. 4 If you commit plagiarism, you can fail a course, be expelled from college, lose your job. 4 The easiest route to plagiarism today is cutting and pasting from the internet.

Avoid Plagiarism 4 Introduce any material you have borrowed from another source with a signal phrase that mentions the author (or if there is no author, the title ) of the source. 4 Put in quotation marks, any phrase or sentence(s) you have borrowed from the source. 4 If the quotation is longer than 3 lines, indent the quoted words. 4 ANY PHRASES OR SENTENCES QUOTED EXACTLY AND NOT IN QUOTATION MARKS OR INDENTED ARE PLAGIARIZED.

Help is Here 4 If you are confused about what plagiarism is or how to cite sources, please make an appointment with me to clarify any issues you might have. 4 If this is a last minute issue, email me, and I will try to respond promptly.

Internal Documentation Citing Sources in the Text of an Essay

What Needs To Be Cited? 4 Quotations 4 Paraphrased ideas 4 Summarized information 4 Facts 4 Statistics 4 Studies 4 When in doubt, acknowledge the source of the information

Ways To Cite Sources Include: 4 Quotation 4 Paraphrase 4 Summary

Parenthetical Citation 4 The parenthetical citation must match the first word of the Works Cited citation -usually the author’s last name -- and must include the page number of the quote, if taken from a paginated text: (Bragg 123). Bragg, Rick. “Country Club Meets the Enemy: Country Music and Pigs. ” 1999. Rpt. Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2000. 123 -25.

In-text reference an in-text reference to show that a piece of information, idea, quotation, etc. you have included in your writing belongs to another writer. It is always designed to be short because it is interrupting the text, and is usually in parentheses: 4 In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in car sales in Thailand (Honda 1995). OR 4 In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in car sales in Thailand (Honda, 1995). OR 4 In recent years there has been a rapid increase in car sales in Thailand [1].

Remember. . . 4 The parenthetical citation must match the first word of the Works Cited citation, usually the author’s last name, and include a page reference or a year 4 Quotes repeat the author’s exact words. 4 Paraphrases restate the author’s words in the writer’s own words. 4 Summaries abbreviate the author’s words.

Reference List

Overall Format 4 The title -- Works Cited -- is centered at the top of the page. It is not underlined, italicized or quoted. It should be the same font size as the rest of the citations. 4 The citation list is double-spaced throughout. 4 The citation list is alphabetized. 4 If there is no author, the citation begins with the title of the work – quoted if an article or poem, underlined or italicized if a book. 4 The first line of each citation is at the margin; subsequent lines should be indented about ten spaces.

Sample Citations: MLA FORMAT

A Book author title of book Bragg, Rick. Somebody Told Me: The subtitle of book city of publication Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg. Tuscaloosa: publisher year of publication U of Alabama P, 2000.

Chapter in a Book author title of chapter Bragg, Rick. “Country Club Meets the Enemy: original publication date reprint Country Music and Pigs. ” 1999. Rpt. Somebody title of book subtitle of book Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg. city publisher year of publication Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2000. 123 -25. inclusive chapter pages

Article in a Multi-Volume Reference Work author title of work Larkin, Joan. "Frontiers of Language: Three Poets. " excerpted title of article title of reference work 1974. Exc. in "Audre Lord. ” Contemporary original date volume editor Literary Criticism. Vol. 18. Ed. Sharon R. city publisher year of publication Gunton. Detroit: Gale Research, 1982. 307 -08. inclusive pages of work

Article in a Journal author title of article name of journal Maxwell, Bill. “Angry Young Man. ” Forum: The Magazine of the Florida Humanities Council. volume number date inclusive pages of article XXII. 2 (Summer 1999): 8 -17.

Article in a Journal found in an Online Database author title of article Eder, Richard, "The Greatest Woman Poet Since name of journal Sappho. " Los Angeles Times Book Review date pages publisher database 18 Mar. 1990. 3+. Galenet: Literature provider date accessed Resource Center. LINCC. 10 Jan. 2004.

Article found on an Internet Site author title of webpage date posted Lu Yanguang. "Madame Li. " 1997. name of website Asia Pac: 100 Celebrated Chinese Women. translator date accessed Trans. Kate Foster. 10 Feb. 2000 URL: web address < http: //www. span. com. au/100 women/18. html >.

Work in an Anthology author original publication date title of work title of book Whitman, Walt. “Osceola. ” 1892. Florida in Poetry: . subtitle of book editors A History of the Imagination. Eds. Jane Anderson city Jones and Maurice O’Sullivan. Sarasota: publisher year of publication Pineapple Press, 1995. 30 -31. inclusive pages of work

Bibliography Bragg, Rick. “Country Club Meets the Enemy: Country Music and Pigs. ” 1999. Rpt. Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2000. 123 -25. ______. Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2000. Eder, Richard, "The Greatest Woman Poet Since Sappho. " Los Angeles Times Book Review 18 Mar. 1990. 3+. Galenet: Literature Resource Center. LINCC. 10 Jan. 2004.

Using Numerical References 4 In some fields of study, the preferred style is to number references in the text rather than cite the author’s name. If the number style is used, the references are listed in numerical order, not in alphabetic order.

In the text: 4 Anecdotes intended to associate individual radar operators’ actual health problems with their use of radar equipment have appeared in the literature [1, 2]. These concerns have led some law enforcement agencies to suspend the use of radar [2].

In the list of references

Appendices 4 Appendices follow the list of references. Number or letter appendices and give each a title as if it were a chapter. 4 Example: 4 Appendix 1: Questionnaire 4 Appendix 2: BOI Regulations 4 Appendix A: Derivation of Equations