Interpreting Citations
(Citation examples below are using
the MLA style)
Article from a scholarly journal
title of article
author of article
Shuler, John A. “Of Web Portals, E-Gov, and the Public’s
Prints.” Journal of Academic
Librarianship 28, 6 (2001): 410-414 page
numbers periodical
title
year
volume & issue numbers
Article from a magazine
author of
article
title of article
title of magazine
Levy,
Steven. “
day/month/year page numbers
Article from a newspaper
author(s) of article title of
article
Biemiller, Lawrence and Goldie Blumenstyk.
“Supreme Court Strikes Down Law on
Internet Indecency.” Chronicle of Higher Education 3 July 1997: A21-A22
title
of newspaper day / month /yr. section & page #’s
Book by a single
author
author of
book title of book
Hauptmon, Robert.
Ethics, Information and Technology.
McFarland, 1998.
Place of
publication
publisher year
Book by two or more
authors
Jurewicz, Lynn, and Todd Cutler. High
Tech, High Touch: Library Customer
Service
Through
Technology.
Article in an encyclopedia
author of article title of article title of encyclopedia editor
Allen, Anita L. “Privacy in Health Care.” Encyclopedia
of Bioethics. Ed. Warren T.
Reich. Rev. ed. 5 vols.
Revised edition # of volumes place of publication, publisher
For a more familiar encyclopedia, you can eliminate
publisher information and list edition (if given), and year of publication:
Dykstra, Mary E. “Information Retrieval.” The
Encyclopedia
ed.
2002.
Video
producer
title
Writing Technology: From
Printing to the Internet.
Prod. John Metherell, Global Library
Project. Videocassette. Jones Education
Media, 1997. year
Distributor
For your bibliography
assignment, you will be referring to Chapter 5 of the MLA Handbook
for Writers of Research Papers (2003),
“Documentation: Preparing the List of Works Cited,” which begins on page
139 and includes sections 5.1-5.9.9.
The last section gives instructions on how to cite electronic formats, with examples showing how to cite entire web sites
or pages/documents within a web site.
You can also access information on citing web sites at this portion of
MLA’s home page: http://www.mla.org/style_faq
Other Citation Style Guides:
Turabian,
Kate L. 1996. A Manual for writers of term papers, theses and dissertations.
Based on the larger Chicago
Manual of Style, includes sections most useful to students submitting
papers in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Chapter 10, pp175-185 has guidelines
for the reference list [bibliography] and parenthetical references.
Call number: REF LB 2369
.T8
American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication
manual of the American
Psychological
Association. (5th
ed.).
Published by the American
Psychological Association, this is the style guide followed by authors who
publish in APA’s 24 primary journals, and many other journals in psychology and
behavioral sciences, nursing, and personnel administration. Students writing papers in psychology and
closely-related disciplines are often required by their instructors to follow
this style. Sections 3.94
through 4.16 (pp. 207-268) are probably the most useful, as these
show the writer how to cite references in text and to cite sources in the
reference list (bibliography), including electronic formats.
Call number: REF BF 76.7 .P83 2001
For more information and examples of citing electronic information, including web sites in APA format, you can also check out this section of APA’s official web site: http://www.apastyle.org/elecsource.html
Two more examples:
Article or chapter in an edited book or anthology
1. MLA format
More,
Hannah. “The Black Slave Trade: A Poem.” British Women Poets of the
Romantic Era. Ed. Paula R. Feldman.
1997. 472-82.
2. APA format
O’Neil,
J.M. & Egan, J. (1992). Men’s and women’s gender role journeys:
Metaphor for healing, transition, and
transformation. In B.R. Wainrib (Ed.),
Gender
issues across the life cycle (pp. 107-123).
3. Turabian format
Beech,
Mary Higdon. “The Domestic Realm in the
Lives of Hindu Women
In
Hanna Papnanek and Gail Minault,
110-138.