Ansbach Middle/High School

*Citing Your Sources

*Why do we need to do this?

*Give credit where credit is due.

*Make a trail the reader can follow.

*Provide evidence of your research.

*Avoid PLAGIARISM!

*How do we do this?

There are several ways:

*MLA (Modern Language Association)

*APA (American Psychological Association)

*Harvard

*Chicago Manual of Style

* What does MLA look like?

Works Cited

Dougherty, Ryan. "Philadelphia Freedom: In the City of Brotherly Love, a Handful of Park Sites Tell The Story of a Revolution

That Drew the Blueprint for America. "National Parks Summer (2005): 50+. Student Resources in Context.

Web. 29 Oct. 2013.

Hartnett, Kevin. "The Liberty Bell." American History 45.5 (2010): 70. MAS Ultra - School Edition. Web. 29 Oct. 2013

Hershberg, Theodore. “Liberty Bell.” World Book. World Book, Inc., 1995.

"Liberty Bell Center." National Parks Service. National Parks Service, 17 Oct. 2013. Web. 29 Oct. 2013.

"Liberty Bell Center in Philadelphia." Image. Terri Nichols. United States Geography. ABC-CLIO, 2013. Web. 29 Oct. 2013.

Nash, Gary B.. The Liberty Bell. New Haven, CN: Yale University Press, 2010.

*That doesn’t look so hard.

Here are some helpful hints

*Include all necessary information.

*Use a standard, 12-point font. Nothing CRAZY!

*Double spacing.

*Alphabetize by the 1st main word in the entry.

*The title of the page is: Works Cited (no quotation marks, no italics, no underline, etc.)

*Where do I look?

NECESSARY INFORMATION?

*booksPublisher Information

Copyright Date

Title

Author

*website

Publisher Information

Date

Name of Page

Name of Website

"Liberty Bell Center." National Parks Service. National

Parks Service, 17 Oct. 2013. Web. 29 Oct. 2013.   

*online database

Most database will give you the citation already done!

But…

YOU NEED TO CHECK THE FORMATTING!

Notice the spacing is not correct – it should be double spaced.

*imageNotice it is not formatted with the hanging indent – you will have to fix that!

*Image from a website

Date

Name of Website

Liberty Bell. 2011. Image.

Classroom Clipart. Web. 31

Oct 2013.

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*I want more help!!!

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