Citation Rules:
After being asked more than a few times how do do a proper set of citations for history classes, I, your humble and munificent teacher, have decided to put a few examples up so you can see with your own eyes (antennae, feet, thorax, or what have you, depending on species or inclination) how to properly cite photographs or written work.
Books:
References to an entire book should include the following elements:
- author(s) or editor(s)
- the complete title
- edition, if indicated
- place of publication
- the shortened name of the publisher
- date of publication
No author or editor:
Peterson's Annual Guides to Graduate Study. 33rd ed. Princeton, NJ: Peterson's Guides, 1999.
One author:
Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita. New York: Putnam, 1955.
Two authors:
Cross, Susan, and Christine Hoffman. Bruce Nauman: Theaters of Experience. New York:
Guggenheim Museum; London: Thames & Hudson, 2004.
Encyclopedia entry:Bergman, P. G. "Relativity." The New Encyclopaedia Britannica. 15th ed. 1987.
Article from an online encyclopedia:
"Einstein, Albert."Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. 1999. Encyclopedia Britannica. 27 April 2004
http://search.eb.com/bol/topic?eu=108494&sctn=1.
If you need to see more examples of citations, please visit
http://www.library.cornell.edu/newhelp/res_strategy/citing/mla.html#mla
Please follow these citation rules, and your project will do just fine!
5 comments:
what is the font that you want us to use?
Times New Roman, pleaseandthankyou.
Mr. K, I have person who I found (F.G.G.) who was very important to our city. But the problem is, I cannot find a single picture of him anywhere, not even a pixel. Is it possible to still write about this person?
If you don't have a picture, don't bother.
i got my stuff from like a site, so i just print the site? the site dosent show the aouthor or enything at all, just the paragraph... and for the pictures i used google, how would i site that?
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