Using and Acknowledging

Sources

 
 
Integrating Quotes

At the beginning: 

    "To live a life is not to cross a field," Pasternak writes to begin his narrative  (45).
In the middle: 
    She begins and ends by speaking of the need of the woman writer to have  "money and a room of her own" (Woolf 133), which certainly spoke to Plath's  condition, especially in her impoverished and harassed last six months.
At the end: 
    In the Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir has described such an experience as one in  which the girl "becomes as object, and she sees herself as object" (19).
Or divided by your own words: 
    "Science usually prefers the literal to the non literal term," Kinneavy writes, "-- that is, figures of speech are often out of place in science" (177).

Paraphrasing and summarizing:
    For an industry that says it already loses one and a half billion dollars annually  to people who copy music from their friends, the record industry is fearful of  that number growing astronomically (Buell 112). 

    A study at Bellevue Hospital in New York City of 102 teenagers who attempted  suicide showed that only one third of them lived with both parents (Newsweek  74). 

 
 

The "Works Cited" Page
 
Works Cited

The entries on your Works Cited page are to be listed in alphabetical order. 

BOOKS cited as follows: 

  • Simon, Kate.  Bronx Primitive.  New York:  Harper, 1982. 
  • Strunk, W., Jr., and E. B. White.  The Elements of Style.  4th ed.  New York:   Macmillan, 1983.
A work in an anthology or collection: 
  • Walker, Alice.  "Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self."  Reading Critically,   Writing Well.  Ed., Rise B. Axelrod and Charles R. Cooper.  2nd ed.  New   York:  St. Martin's 1990.  86-92. 
An article in a reference book: 
  • Suber, Howard.  "Motion Picture."  Encyclopedia Americana.  1981 ed. 

ARTICLES 

Newspaper: 

  • Burns, Jonathan F.  "Afghans Seek Direct Talks with U.S. on Elections."   New  York Times.  7 May 1990:  4, 22. 

An article from a weekly or biweekly magazine: 

  • Glastris, Paul.  "The New Way to Get Rich."  U.S. News & World Report.   7 May   1990:  26-36. 
An article from a Monthly or Bimonthly Magazine: 
  • Dolnick, Edward.  "What Dreams Are (Really) Made Of."  Atlantic. July 1990:    41-61. 
An article from a scholarly journal with continuous annual pagination: 
  • Dworkin, Ronald.  "Law as Interpretation."  Critical Inquiry.   9 (1982):  179-200. 
An article from a scholarly journal that paginates each issue separately: 
  • Epstein, Alexandra.  "Teen Parents:  What They Need to Know."   High/Scope Resource 1.2 (1982):  7. 
An editorial: 
  • "Stepping Backward."  Editorial.  Los Angeles Times.   4 July 1989, pt. 2:  9. 
Performances: 
  • The Piano Lesson.  By August Wilson.  Dir. Lloyd Richards.  Walter Kerr Theater,   New York.  23  Aug. 1989. 
Interviews: 
  • Lowell, Robert.  "Robert Lowell."  With Frederick Seidel.  Paris Review 25   (1975):  56-95. 
  • Franklin, Anna.  Personal interview.  3 Sept. 1993. 

CITING INTERNET SOURCES

The basic model for citing Internet sources runs as follows: 

    Author’s name (last name first).  Document title in quotation marks.  Title of the cite, underlined.  Date of the most recent cite update.  Sponsor of the site.  The  date you accessed the information.  <URL>  (which stands for Uniform Resource Locator) and other retrieval information. 
World Wide Web site 
     - author’s name 
     - title of document, in quotation marks 
     - title of site, (if applicable), in italics or underlined 
     - date of publication or last update (if known)
     - sponsor of the site (if known)
     - date of access
     - URL, in angle brackets < >
Examples: 

Example of citing a source found on EBSCO host

  • Glenn, David J.  "Exercise Activities Mellowing Out."  Fairfield County Business Journal.  2 June 2003:  22.  Regional Business News.  EBSCO.  Cerritos College Library.  9 Nov. 2008 <http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?>.
Telnet site 
     - author’s name (if known) 
     - title of document (if known, in quotation marks 
     - title of full work (if applicable), in italics or underlined 
     - date of publication (if available), followed by a period 
     - word telnet 
     - complete telnet address, with no closing punctuation 
     - directions for accessing document 
     - date of access, in parentheses 
Examples: 
  • Aquatic Conservation Network.  “About the Aquatic Conservation  Network.”  National Capital Freenet.  telnet  freenet.carleton.ca  login as guest, go acn, press 1 (28 May 1996). 
  • California Department of Pesticide Regulation.  “Pest Management  Information.”  CSU Fresno ATI-NET.  telnet  caticsuf.csufresno.edu  login   as super, press a, press k  (28 May 1996). 
FTP site 
     - author’s name (if known) 
     - title of document, in quotation marks 
     - date of publication (if known) 
     - abbreviation ftp (file transfer protocol) 
     - address of FTP site, with no closing punctuation 
     - full path to follow to find document, with no closing punctuation 
     - date of access, in parentheses 
Examples: 
  • Altar, Ted W.  “Vitamin B12 and Vegans.”  14 Jan. 1993.  ftp  wiretap.spies.com Library/Article/Food/b12.txt  (28 May 1996). 
You can use a URL (enclosed in angle brackets) instead of the command, address, and path elements.  As follows: 
  • Matloff, Norm.  “Immigration Forum.”  <ftp://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/pub/Immigration/ Index.html>  (28 May 1996). 
Gopher site 
     - author’s name (if known) 
     - title of document, in quotation marks 
     - date of publication (if known) 
     - any print publication information, italicized or underlined where appropriate 
     - URL, in angle brackets 
     - date of access, in parentheses 
Examples: 
  • Smith, Charles A.  “National Extension Model of Critical Parenting Practices.”  1994. <gopher://tinman.mes.umn.edu:4242/11/Other /Other/NEM_Parent>  (28 May 1996). 
To document the location of information using a gopher command-path format, give  the following information instead of the URL: 
     - word gopher 
     - site name 
     - path followed to access document, with slashes to indicate menu selections 
     
  • “Commons Sense:  Aviewer’s Guide to the British House of Commons.”  gopher  c-span.org Transcripts and Publications/C-SPAN  Publications/Commons Sense (28 May 1996). 
HyperNews posting 
     - author’s name 
     - author’s email address, in angle brackets 
     - subject line or title of posting, in quotation marks 
     - date of publication 
     - type of message (if appropriate) 
     - URL, in angle brackets 
     - date of access, in parentheses 
Examples: 
  • LaLiberte, Daniel.  <liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu> “HyperNews Instructions.” 23 May 1996.  <http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HyperNews/get /hypernews/instructions.html> 
  • Saffran, Art. <saffran@wisbar.org>  “It’s Not That Hard.”  5 Jan. 1996.  Reply to “HyperNews Instructions” by Daniel LaLiberte.  <http://     union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HyperNews/get/hypernews/instructions/90/1/1.html>&n bsp; (24 May 1996). 
 
 
 
Updated:  13 October 2009