Citing your Sources
Understanding how to credit your sources using short in-text citations (or footnotes) can help you avoid plagiarism. Example:
- Commercial use of the Web is now obvious and pervasive [Ebersole, 2005]
The longer citation in your “References” or “Works Cited” list (at the end of your paper) includes, at least, the author, title, and source information. Example:
- Ebersole, S. (2005). On their own: students'academic use of the commercialized web. Library Trends, 53, 530-538
The next two paragraphs will help you with reading the parts of a citation and translating the parts into APA citation style format.
Citing books
Here is the publication information for a book found in the Netherlands Central Catalogue (NCC):
- Clayton, Lawrence A. A history of modern Latin America / Lawrence A. Clayton, Michael Conniff. Fort Worth, TX : Harcourt Brace College Humanities, c1999
APA-Format - as it would look in your “References” list:
- Clayton, L.A., & Conniff, M. (1999). A history of modern Latin America. FortWorth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Humanities.
Citing journal articles
Here is the publication information for a journal article retrieved online from the National Online Contents on 17 July, 2006:
- Green tea: prevention and treatment of cancer by nutraceuticals. By: Béliveau, Richard; Gingras, Denis. Lancet, 9/18/2004, Vol. 364 Issue 9439, p1021-1022, 2p.
APA Format - as it would look in your "References" list:
- Béliveau, R., & Gingras, D. (2004). Green tea: Prevention and treatment of cancer by nutraceuticals. Lancet, 364, 1021-1022. Retrieved Monday, July 17, 2006, from Online Contents database.
Note: for online articles you have to give information not just about the original journal where the article was published, but also what online database you got it from and when.
