Argument-research essay

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Writing Citations for Print Sources

Print: BOOKS, PERIODICALS, NEWSPAPERS

Information You Will Need: TO CITE BOOKS Author’s name (author of the entire book – or author of a separate article).

Title of the part of the book (in quotes) (This applies if you used only a short section, not the entire book.).

Title of the book (italicized),

Name of the editor, translator, or compiler (if given),

Edition used (if given),

Number(s) of volume(s) used (if it is part of a multi-volume set),

Name of publisher, and year of publication (use UP for university press, omit Company and Inc.),

Give page numbers for a reference book article, only if the articles are not arranged in ABC order

Series name is optional.

Examples: Article From a Typical Reference Book (articles not in ABC order)

Rottner, Klemens, et al. “Cytoskeleton Proteins.” Cell Biology, edited by Julio E. Celis, 3rd ed., vol. 3. Elsevier Academic

Press, 2006, pp. 111-19.

Printed Book

Hillstrom, Kevin. The Great Depression and the New Deal. Omnigraphics, 2008.

TO CITE PERIODICALS AND NEWSPAPERS Author’s name (if given). Title of article in quotes.

Title of the periodical (italicized),

Volume and issue number for journals only (Do not give volume number for magazines.),

Date of publication,

Page numbers of article or section and page number for newspapers.

Examples: Popular Magazine Article

Worland, Justin. “What is Killing off the Pollinators?” Time, 14 Mar. 2016, p. 10.

Scholarly Journal Article Sohrabi, Nader. “Historicizing Revolutions: Constitutional Revolutions in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, and Russia,

1905-1908.”American Journal of Sociology, vol.100, no. 6, 1995, pp. 1383-477. Newspaper Article

Hoppe, Christy. “Y’all Can’t Take My Cellphone.” Dallas Morning News, 13 Apr. 2009, pp. 1A+.

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Writing Citations for Electronic Sources

Electronic: WEB PAGES AND SUBSCRIPTION ONLINE DATABASES Information You Will Need:

TO CITE WEB PAGES

Author or editor’s name – last name, first name (if given).

Title of article, essay, blog entry, or poem/short story in the Web site (in quotes).

Title of the overall Web site, scholarly project, database, periodical, or professional site (italicized).

Publisher or sponsor of the site (if given); do not duplicate name of publisher if it is the same name as the Web site.

Date of material (if given) Use “n.d.” if no date is given and include access date at the end of the citation.

URL, omitting http:// or https://.

Date you accessed the Web site if no date is given for the Web site.

Note: Often you will have to consult a Web page other than the one you are viewing to identify author, date, and/or page publisher. Examine the home page or page just before the one you are viewing. Examples:

Author Given Menand, Louis. “Honest, Decent, Wrong.” The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2003, www.newyorker.com/

magazine/2003/01/27/honest-decent-wrong.

No Author Given "Greenhouse Gas Emissions." Climate Change – Greenhouse Gas Emissions. U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency, 2 Aug. 2016, www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/global.html.

No Date Given (give access date at end of citation) “Climate Change and your Health.” Global Warming. Union of Concerned Scientists, n.d., www.ucsusa.org/

global_warming/science_and_impacts/impacts/climate-change-and-your-health.html#.V6I0qj9ZY1Q. Accessed 20 May 2016.

Entire Web Site Eaves, Morris, et al., editors. The William Blake Archive. Library of Congress, 1996-2016, www.blakearchive.

org/blake.

TO CITE SUBSCRIPTION ONLINE DATABASES

Author’s name (if given).

Title of article in quotes.

Publication information for the printed source or printed analogue, including: title of periodical or book (italicized), date of publication or use “n.d.” if no date is given.

Name of database (italicized),

DOI, Document number, Accession number, or permanent URL, omitting http:// or https://.

Examples: Academic Search Complete (popular magazine article). Use accession number if no doi is given.

Reisinger, Don. “Ten Ways to Protect Social Media Passwords from Hackers.” eWeek, 7 June 2016, p. 1. Academic

Search Complete, Access no. 116023281. .

Academic Search Complete (scholarly journal article). DOI is given

Boy, John D., and Justus Ultermark. "How to Study the City on Instagram." PLoS ONE, vol. 11, no. 6, 23 June 2016, pp. 1-16.

Academic Search Complete, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0158161. Gale Virtual Reference Library (reference book article). Document ID is given.

Harrison, Jennifer. “XYZ Affair.” Dictionary of American History, edited by Stanley I. Kutler, 3rd ed., Charles Scribner’s Sons,

2003. Gale Virtual Reference Library, GALE|CX3401804623.