1. Creating a works cited page
Avoiding Plagiarism
Creating a works cited page

2. What is plagiarism? Using another’s work as your own
Copying and pasting anything from the internet without citation
Retyping or rewriting work from other students, authors, websites, books, etc.
Failing to document, through the use of parenthetical references, the words of others
Failing to submit a Works Cited Page.
Including an incomplete Works Cited Page (one that does not list all sources used within the paper)
- from the NWLSD Research Manual

3. Creating a Works Cited Page
Once you’ve found a resource with information that you want to use, you should take down some information about that source.
Use the NWLSD Research Manual to assist you. It’s available in the library and online at

4. Print Source Author Book Title Place of Publication Publisher
Year of Publication
Medium of Publication (print or web)

5. Finding the Information
Author
Book Title
Series Title (if applicable)
Place of Publication
Publisher
Year of Publication

6. Sample Source Card
Format: Last name, First name. Title of Book. Series Name. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication. Example: Feinstein, Stephen. The 1990s From the Persian Gulf to Y2K. Decades of the 20th Centruy. Berkeley Heights: Enslow, Print.

7. Internet Source
Not every Web page will provide all of the following information. However, collect as much of the following information as possible both for your citations and for your research notes:
Author name (if available)
Title of web page
Title of the web site
Publisher/Sponsoring organization
Date updated/Publication Date
Date you accessed the web site

8. Finding the Information
Author
Title of web page
Title of web site
Publisher / Sponsoring organization
Date updated
Date accessed

9. Sample Source Card
Format: Last name, First name. “Title of Web Page.” Title of Web Site. Sponsoring organization. Copyright or last updated date. Medium of Publication. Date Accessed. Example: Pond, Allison, Gregory Smith and Scott Clement. “Religion Among the Millennials.” Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. Pew Research Center. 17 Feb Web. 28 Oct 2010.

10. Article from an Online Database
Author
Title of article
Title of journal, magazine or newspaper
Date of publication
Page number (in original source)
Title of database
Date accessed

11. Finding the Information
Author
Title of article
Title of journal, magazine or newspaper
Date of publication
Page number (in original source)
Title of database
Date accessed

12. Sample Source Card
Format: Last name, First name. “Title of Article.” Title of Journal Volume.Issue (Year) : Pages (in original source). Title of Database. Medium of Publication. Date Accessed. Godsil, Rachel D. “Race Nuicance: The Politics of Law in the Jim Crow Era." Michigan Law Review (2006): MasterFILE Premier. Web. 28 Oct

13. Works Cited Page
The words Works Cited should be centered at the top of the page.
Entries should be listed alphabetically by first word.
The first line begins at the left margin and all other lines are indented five spaces.
Entries should follow the format given in the NWLSD Research Handbook. Make sure to use correct punctuation.
The whole page should be double-spaced.

14. Sample Works Cited Page
Works Cited Feinstein, Stephen. The 1990s From the Persian Gulf to Y2K. Decades of the 20th Century. Berkeley Heights: Enslow, Godsil, Rachel D. “Race Nuicance: The Politics of Law in the Jim Crow Era." Michigan Law Review (2006): MasterFILE Premier. Web. 28 Oct Pond, Allison, Gregory Smith and Scott Clement. “Religion Among the Millennials.” Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. Pew Research Center. 17 Feb Web. 28 Oct 2010.

15. What information must be cited?
Summary – a brief restatement of the main ideas in a source, using your own words
Paraphrase – restates information from a source using your own words
Quotations – the record of the exact words of a written or spoken source, set off by quotation marks

16. In-text Citations
Each time you use notes that you took from one of your sources (whether it is a summary, paraphrase, or direct quote) in your paper, you must provide a citation for it, which should include the author’s name (or title if author’s name is not available)and the page number(s).

17. Sample In Text Citations
“For race to affect the outcome in the nuisance cases, courts would have had to find expressly that race was salient to the outcome. The white plaintiffs were asking courts to make an affirmative finding that black people as a class were a nuisance—akin to pollution” (Godsil 510).
On January 16, 1991, television viewers worldwide saw the beginnings of Operation Desert Storm (Feinstein 38).
“Though young adults pray less often than their elders do today, the number of young adults who say they pray every day rivals the portion of young people who said the same in prior decades” (Pool et al.).

18. Questions?