Creating a Bibliography The keys to citing sources
Creating a Bibliography The keys to citing sources
Why cite sources? ¨ Respect copyright laws ¨ Avoid plagiarism ¨ Give proper credit for original creations
Always give credit when using: ¨ Another person’s idea, opinion or theory ¨ Facts, statistics, graphs, drawings or any other pieces of information that are not common knowledge ¨ Quotations of another person’s actual spoken or written words ¨ Statements paraphrased from another person’s spoken or written words
How to give proper credit ¨ Use quotations in your work to show exact replication of another source ¨ Use parenthetical references in the body of your work ¨ Create a bibliography of works cited
Creating a bibliography
Noodle. Tools ¨ Bibliography generator ¨ Compiles works cited into alphabetical listing ¨ Transfers information to a “Works Cited” Microsoft Word file
Creating a personal account
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How to add citations
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Types of citations ¨ There are two main types of citation styles: – MLA • Modern Language Association – APA • American Psychological Association – For our purposes, we will be focusing on MLA Advanced
Types of citations ¨ Different formats require different information in the citation – Print Materials • Books • Reference Sources – Electronic Resources • Web sites • Articles from databases
Print materials: Books
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Print Materials: Reference Books
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Electronic Resources: World Wide Web
Web sites ¨ Information retrieved off the Internet ¨ Need to know: – Organization who publishes the site – URL of the site – Date you retrieved the information ¨ Note: The person who maintains the site is not necessarily the author ¨ Also, Web site information is not the same as an article retrieved from a database.
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Electronic Resources: databases
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Finished product free of plagiarism: ¨ Original content and ideas ¨ Information taken from other authors given proper credit ¨ All direct quotes acknowledged in the body of the paper ¨ All sources used for reference cited in bibliography
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