Creating Your Works Cited Page A brief guide to some of the various citation styles

A works cited page, also referred to as a bibliography or reference list, is a list of resources used directly or indirectly in your paper. The works cited page starts on its own page at the end of your paper and follows the same page numbering sequence as the rest of your paper. What Is a Works Cited Page?

Legally it is against the law to copy someone else’s work without citing them or else you will be breaking copyright law! Ethically it is wrong to use someone else’s ideas. Credit should be given to the creator of the work. Whoever is reading your work should be able to locate your references to research the topic more. The works cited page gives the reader a quick reference. Why Should I Cite?

When should I cite? When you are directly quoting someone else’s words or writings. When you are taking someone else’s idea and using it in your own writing (unless it is common knowledge, then you do not have to cite it). When you are referring to a source you should cite it, even if you do not quote from it or paraphrase.

- Journals - Blogs - Books- Wikipedia - Newspapers- Online journals - Databases Citations should be made when citing any of the following… Just because it’s on the World Wide Web does not mean that you don’t have to cite it.

Two Basic Steps to Citing a Work: For APA, MLA, Turabian and Chicago 1. Parenthetical citation within the text or footnotes (footnotes is an option in Turabian and Chicago Style.) 2. Works cited page

What do some of the different citation styles look like? APA Chicago MLATurabian Continue to end of show…

APA Style The American Psychological Association’s citation style for publication, “APA,” is most often used in the sciences and social sciences. Author, publication date and page number information are included in the parenthetical citation when quoting directly. Indirect quotes use in-text author and date. When the author’s name is mentioned in the sentence, only the publication date is needed. Three examples: –“Your leadership strengths – what you want to preserve - lie at the intersection of where your real self matches your ideal " (Goleman, 2002, p. 134). –In his book on leadership… (Goleman, 2002) –Goleman (2002) states that your leadership strengths lie at the meeting point of your real self and your ideal.

APA Style - Reference List At the end of paper the reference page lists the complete citation information. References are listed alphabetically. If there is no author, then alphabetize by title (omitting “the,” “a”, “an”). Hanging indent style: The first line of the source is not indented, but subsequent lines are. Double space. The first letter of the first word in the title is capitalized and the rest of the title starts with lower case. The following is an example of a book with one author: Goleman, D. (2002). Primal leadership. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

MLA Style MLA Style (Modern Language Association) is used in the humanities. There is in-text parenthetical citation with the author’s last name and page number. –“The value of surveys, focus groups, and interviews is that they enable you to learn what your customers want” (Woodward,138). If the author’s name is mentioned in the sentence, then you do not have to write it in parenthetical citation. –Woodward says that the value of surveys, focus groups, and interviews is that they teach you what customers want (34).

At the end of paper the works cited page lists the complete citation information. Works are listed alphabetically. If there is no author, then alphabetize by title (omitting “the,” “a”, “an”). Hanging indent style: the first line of the source is not indented, but subsequent lines are. Double space. The following is an example of a book with one author: Woodward, Jeannette. Creating the Customer Driven Library. Chicago: American Library Association, MLA Style – Works Cited Page

Turabian Style Kate Turabian’s Turabian Style is most often used in the humanities and history. Kate Turabian created this style from the Chicago Style. The style is geared towards scholarly work that is not intended for publication. Two different documentation systems: –Humanities (typically): footnotes and bibliography. –Sciences (typically) (natural, physical, or social science): in-text author and date information and reference list.

Footnotes*: 1 Richard Rubin, Foundations of Library and Information Science (New York: Neal-Schuman, 2004), 15. Bibliography: Rubin, Richard. Foundations of Library and Information Science. New York: Neal-Schuman, *Footnote numbers are superscript in Turabian Style. Turabian Style - Humanities

Turabian Style- Sciences In-Text Information: (Rubin 2004, 15) Reference List: Rubin, Richard Foundations of Library and Information Science. New York: Neal-Schuman.

Chicago Style This style created by the University of Chicago Press is most frequently used in the humanities and is used for work that is going to published. Two different citation systems, one is often used in the humanities and the other in the sciences: - Humanities: footnotes and bibliography. -Sciences (natural, physical, and social): in-text author and date information and reference list.

Chicago Style- Humanities Footnotes*: 1. John Budd, The Changing Academic Library (Chicago: American Library Association, 2005), 43. Bibliography: Budd, John. The Changing Academic Library. Chicago: American Library Association, *Footnote numbers are regular numbers followed by a period and a space.

Chicago Style - Sciences In-Text Information: (Budd 2005, 43) Reference List: Budd, John The Changing Academic Library. Chicago: American Library Association.

Final Tips Depending on the number of authors and the type of source your citations will vary. These examples are for books with one author. For all works cited pages make sure you have the citation information from the books that you need to cite before you return the book. This information is usually located on the front and back of the title page for books.

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