Guide for Listing Sources
- Throughout this year you will be expected to list the sources you use for projects. These sources include both print (books, encyclopedias, etc) and electronic (web sites, CD-ROMs, etc).
- This sheet will provide you with tips and directions for listing those sources properly. Also, be sure to ask questions as you work, so that we are both sure you are able to correctly cite the sources you use.
- For your own knowledge and referencing you should also list the pages that you use in a source, so that if you need to go back to your information it will be easy to find.
- Your sources should be listed in alphabetical order on a separate sheet of paper. The page should be titled “Resources” or “References” or “Documentation”. This page should appear at the end of your project (unless otherwise stated in class
- All sources (regardless of format) are listed in alphabetical order by the first word of the entry.
- Titles of books are underlined; titles of articles are in quotes.
- A great tool to use when listing your sources is Landmark’s Citation Machine – which is a website that correctly sets up your entries when the appropriate information is entered – the address is www.citationmachine.net (it is also a link on the school web page). If you would like help working through this, please ask me.
Books
1. You need to find the author, title, publisher, copyright year and the city it was published
in.
*If you are unable to find any piece of this then you just leave it out of the entry. But be
sure you LOOK carefully before you leave it out.
2. Formula to set it up:
Author’s last name, First name. Title. City: Publisher, year.
Sample: Collins, Michael, Liftoff: The Story of America’s Adventure in Space.
Osman, Tony. Space History.
Notice: The title is underlined; capitalization and the punctuation marks are important; the entries are in alphabetical order.
Encyclopedia Articles
1. You need to find the author or editor (if any), title of the article, name of the encyclopedia, year it was published.
*If you are unable to find any piece of this then you just leave it out of the entry. But be sure you LOOK carefully before you leave it out.
2. Formula to set it up:
Author or Editor’s last name, first name. Title of Article. Name of Encyclopedia. Year edition.
3. Sample:
Sassoon, Vidal. “Hairdressing.” The World Book Encyclopedia. 1995 edition.
Electronic Materials
1. You need to find the author or editor (if any), title of the article or name of website, the date you retrieved the information, and the address of the website.
2. Formula to set it up:
Author or Editor’s last name, First name. Title of the article or website. Retrieved date, from the World Wide Web: address
3. Sample:
Jacobson, John. “A History of Facilitated Communication.” Retrieved
Sample page
References
Cook, Marcy. Follow the Clues with tiles. Balboa, CA: Marcy Cook Math, 1989.
“Fifty Years of Hairstyles.” Ebony Magazine Nov. 1995:222B. Middle Search. CD-ROM. EBSCO
Publishing. May 1996.
Heine, Helme. Friends. London: Collins Picture Lions, 1984.
Nunn, Joan. Fashion in Costume. 1200-1980.
