Citing Sources in the Text Use a combination of signal phrases and parenthetical references to differentiate your source material from your own ideas and position.

Sources for material in this presentation: Ackley, Katherine Anne. Ed Sources for material in this presentation: Ackley, Katherine Anne. Ed. Perspectives on Contemporary Issues: Readings Across the Disciplines. 5th ed. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage 2009. Print. Hacker, Diana, and Nancy Sommers. A Pocket Style Manual. 6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s 2012. Print.

Use the author’s full name and the article name in the first mention if you are using an important source. Use page numbers for print sources. First mention: According to Jessica Reaves in “What the Rest of Africa Could Learn about AIDS,” “The Senegalese government has taken a remarkably active role in the sex education of its citizens” (454). Second mention: Reaves maintains that “comprehensive sex education—including information about condoms and how to use them—is one of the most important weapons in the fight against AIDS” (455).

Online or electronic sources sometimes have unclear authorship and lack page numbers. Paraphrase: A 2005 study by the American Management Association and ePolicy Institute found that seventy-six percent of companies monitor employees’ use of the web, and the number of companies that block their access to certain web sites has increased twenty-seven percent since 2001. Quote: According to the American Management Association, “Technology makes it possible for employers to gather enormous amounts of data about employees.”

Electronic Works Cited Entry --article from a website w/ an organization as an author American Management Association and ePolicy Institute. “2005 Electronic Monitoring and Surveillance Survey.” American Management Association. Amer. Management Assn., 2005. Web. 15. Feb. 2013.

Citing Government Documents In the text: Online monitoring by the United States Department of the Interior over a one-week period found that employees’ use of “sexually explicit and gambling websites . . . accounted for over 24 hours of Internet use” (3). In the Works Cited: United States. Dept. of the Interior. Office of Inspector General. “Excessive Indulgences: Personal Use of the Internet at the Department of the Interior.” Office of Inspector General. Dept. of the Interior, Sept. 1999. Web. 20 May 2010.

Article from an online journal In the text: Chris Gonsalves reports in “Wasting Away on the Web,” that “more than fifty percent of the employees in the office who are online are not focused solely on work-related projects, but are also sending personal email, shopping or using Facebook or other social media sites.” In the Works Cited: Gonsalves, Chris. “Wasting Away on the Web.” eWeek.com. Ziff Davis Enterprise Holdings, 8 Aug. 2005. Web. 16 Feb. 2011.