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1 Remember the ABCs of citing: A – Author B – Book title or “Title of Article.” C s – City: Company name D – Date E – Every page.

2 A – Author Always: Last name, First name. Sometimes not available (encyclopedias usually do not include names)

3 B – Book title or “Title of Article.” Books - look on title page Encyclopedias - keyword you looked up. * example: “Black Holes” or “Washington, George” For magazines or Internet sites it is the “Article Title” * - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *B (part 2) – Source of Article and date published * Name of encyclopedia or magazine (print or online)

4 Cs Book or Encyclopedia: City: Company (who published the work) Online Resource Company responsible (Database) examples: Nettreker Gale SIRS NASA

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6 D - date Book or Encyclopedia: copyright date Web page: date you accessed the site (today’s date) DD MMM YYYY [spell out May, June, & July] 1 09 Nov 2008

7 E Every page. For websites this is the URL (http://) (Uniform Resource Locator)

8 Citing The guidelines for citing electronic sources are not completely standardized. Skip the things you cannot find. http://citationmachine.net/ will let you fill in the blanks and cite for you.http://citationmachine.net/ Note: Encyclopedia Britannica, World Book Encyclopedia, and Gale already cite for you (go to the bottom of the page)

9 LaPorte, Robert. "Sri Lanka." World Book Online Reference Center. 2007. 23 Oct. 2007. “Sri Lanka.” World Book Encyclopedia Vol. #18. Chicago: World Book, Inc., 2007: p 817. "Sri Lanka." Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. 4th ed. U*X*L, 2004. Kids InfoBits. Detroit: Gale, 2007. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/KidsInfoBits What it Looks Like: Works Cited


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