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Citing your sources

Citing a source means to give credit to the author. Usually at the end of a project or report there is a Reference List, (or Bibliography) where you have written down every source you used to make your project. There are many ways to write a citation, but the one you need to use is this one:

Example:

For BOOKS

Author's last name, Author's first name. (Year). Title of text. City of publication: Name of publisher.

Fradin, Dennis. (1995). Polar bears. New York: Prentice Hall Publishers.

 

For MAGAZINES

Author's last name, Author's first name. (Year). Title of text. Name of Magazine Volume number (Issue number). Page numbers.

Mead, Marilyn. (1992). Polar bears' survival habits. Wildlife 18 (3). 133-140.

For Computer sources

Author's last name, Author's first name. (Year). Title of text. URL or title of program.

Milbury, Peter. (1997). Polar bears on the Net. http://www.syr.edu/~pmilbury/bear.html

 

At the end of your report or project, start a new page with References (or Bibliography) at the top for the title. Then list all of your citations alphabetically by the authors' last names.

 
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