1. Gatorade Lab Report

2.  When you use an idea from a source, like a website or scientific article, you need to give that author credit  In a section like BACKGROUND, you need to do an in text citation

3.  You need to cite the (Author, Year) in the text  For example, if you wrote... ... Jacques Charles discovered the relationship between temperature and pressure in 1787 (ChemTeam, n.d.).  In this example, the citation is (ChemTeam, n.d.)  ChemTeam is the website  n.d. means there was no date on the website

4.  At the end of your lab report, you also need to put a full citation for your sources  To start, insert a new page after your larger context section and write References  This is just like any other subsection heading

5.  To cite a website in the references use this format: Name. (Date). Title. Retrieved from: www.XXX www.XXX ChemTeam. (n.d.). Charles’ Law. Retrieved from: www.chemteam.info/GasLaw/Charles- Law.html

6.  To cite a textbook in the references use this format: Author. (Date). Title. Location: Publisher. Silberberg, M.S. (2009). Chemistry: The molecular nature of matter and change. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

7.  To cite a scientific journal article use this format: Author. (Date). Title of article. Title of journal, volume number (issue number). Pages OR website address. Harlow, H.F. (1983). Fundamentals of preparing psychology journal articles. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 55, 893 – 896.

8.  Google: Purdue OWL APA  https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/ 560/07/ https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/ 560/07/  Look at the bar on the side to find specific info about various references

9.  Cite your textbook as one reference  Find one other reference besides your textbook and cite this reference correctly

10.  One way to earn honors credit on the Boyle’s Law lab report is to cite TWO or more extra references  These references can be websites, your scientific articles, or other valid resources  No Wikipedia, and your textbook does not count for honors credit