Research Information
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Research from Project

How to Cite the Citation and Quote the Quotation

 

When you take information from places besides your own brain, you HAVE to give credit for the information you borrowed.  This is called parenthetical citation, a fancy phrase for writing the information from the source in YOUR essay.  Here’s a list to figure out the most common types of citation:

Books:

References to an entire book should include the following elements:

• author(s) or editor(s)
• the complete title
• edition, if indicated
• place of publication
• the shortened name of the publisher
• date of publication

One author:

Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita. New York: Putnam, 1955.

Two authors:

Cross, Susan, and Christine Hoffman. Bruce Nauman: Theaters of Experience. New York: Guggenheim Museum; London: Thames & Hudson, 2004.

For Magazines, it’s a little different:

 

References to periodical articles must include the following elements:

• author(s)
• article title
• title of the journal or magazine you used(journal, magazine, etc.)
• volume number
• publication date (abbreviate months, if used)
• the page numbers from the article you used

Issue numbers should be stated as decimals to a given volume number. In the example below, the number 25.4 reads as Volume 25, issue 4. When citing newspapers, it is important to specify the edition used (e.g. late ed.) because different editions of a newspaper may contain different material.

Magazine article:

Pirisi, Angela. "Eye-catching advertisements." Psychology Today Jan.-Feb. 1997: 14.

And the Internet Citations are even more different:

Article in a full-text journal accessed from a database to which the library subscribes :
For works from a subscription service, like ProQuest Direct or Academic Universe, use the URL of the service's main page (if known). Also, if a library is the subscriber to the service, the name of the service and the name and city of the library should be included in the citation. When only the starting page number is provided, include this number, followed by a hyphen, space, and a period. See example, below.

Professional site:

Research strategy: a tutorial. Cornell University Library. 18 Sept. 1999 <http://campusgw.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/manntom2.cgi section=help&URL=newhelp/newhelp.html>.

Liu, Alan. The Voice of the Shuttle: Minority Studies Page. 30 Oct. 1999. English Department, U of California, Santa Barbara. 11 Nov. 1999 <http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/minority.html>.

Personal site:

Rule, Greg. Home page. 16 Nov. 1999 <http://www.student.cornell.edu/~greg/>.

For talking to someone and getting information directly from them:

Include the person you interviewed name and the date you conducted the interview.  See the example below:

Personal Interview:

King, John. Personal interview. 12 February 1999.

Final Persuasive Project
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Final Project Notice
Okay, everyone, the final due date for the Persuasive Final Project is June 12th for Block 3 & 5 and June 13th for Block 4 English classes.  If you want to do an alternate assessment, the due date is June 6th, 3:05 pm.  Late proposals will not be accepted!