Recording Sources Source Cards
Source Cards Each time you find a book, article, interview, government document, etc you can use, prepare a source card. A source card is important for many reasons: It allows you to easily find that source again It gives you a “jump start” on your works cited page
Source Cards Source Number Bibliographic Citation Place Where Source is Found 1 Bryden. M.P. “Additional Attentional Strategies in Listening.” National Review of Cognitive Psycology 33 (1999): 57-66. 19 Apr 2001 <http://www.cogpscyc.com.htbin>. EBSCO
Source Number Located in the upper-right hand corner Always circled Each separate source (book, article, government document, etc) gets its own number Number is also used on your note card so you do not have to write the citation again.
Place Where Source is Housed Located in lower left-hand corner Name of the library (LHS Library/Lebanon Public Library), the internet database (EBSCO/Academic Search Premier), etc.
Bibliographic Citation Located in center of card Always formatted with an indention on all lines after the first Allows you to relocate the source Gives you a jump start on your works cited page Necessary to avoid plagiarism
Bibliographic Citations For your research, you may only use books, magazine articles (print or electronic), or articles from scholarly journals. Here are the exact bibliographic citations for each:
Books Updike, John. Hugging the Shore. New York: Random House, 1983. Author’s last name, first name. Book Title. City of Publication: Publishing Company, Year of Publication.
Print Magazine Articles Smith, Shelly. “Baseball’s Forgotten Pioneers.” Sports Illustrated. 30 March 1992: 72. Author’s last name, first name. “Article Title.” Magazine Title. Date of publication: page number.
Internet Magazine Article Russell, Ian. “Family Myths and Family Realities.” Salon 12 Dec 1999. 3 Feb 2001<http://www.salonmagazine.com/mwt/feature/1999/12/23russell.html>. Author’s last name, first name. “Article Title.” Magazine Title Date of Publication. Date of Access <URL>.
Article in Scholarly Journal Bryden, M.P. “Additional Attentional Strategies in Listening.” National Review of Cognitive Psycology 33 (1999): 57-66. 19 Apr 2001<http://www.cogpscyc.com>. Author’s last name, first name. “Title of Article.” Name of Scholarly Journal Volume number (Year of publication): page numbers. Date of access <URL>.