Editorial Research Project: Citations
Citations
Citing a YouTube clip? - choose WEBSITE --- VIDEO CLIP ONLINE
Citing a streaming service? (Netflix, etc.)? - choose WEBSITE --- FILM OR VIDEO
Citing an online TV episode? (Hulu, etc.)? - choose WEBSITE --- TELEVISION
Citing a TV episode heard live? - choose VIEWED/ HEARD LIVE --- TELEVISION
Citing an Interview you conducted? - choose VIEWED/ HEARD LIVE --- INTERVIEW
Citing a Survey you conducted? See this detailed note from MLA 9.
Book citations MUST have the following (minimum): Author, Title, Publisher, Date
Website citations MUST have the following (minimum): Name of Website, Title of article, Date, URL
Database citations - Use the citation tools to either import or copy/paste (NOTE: Check Newsbank to be sure they include author and article title; check Gale citations to be sure they capitalize all principal words in the article)
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A note on preformatted citations - DO use the import or copy/ paste citation features in databases. DO NOT use preformatted citations from websites (you must build these yourself in Noodletools)
Class Exercise - How to cite these websites
How to Do a Hanging Indent
Worksheet Examples for Different Source Types
PollEV
Sample Works Cited - What Corresponding In Text?
Citation Help Sites
Sample In Text Citations
How to do an in text citation when an entire paragraph is attributed to one source
Generally it is sufficient to cite each source only once in each place where you refer to material from this source. "Place" may be one sentence, one paragraph, one definition, etc.
If you cite a paragraph verbatim from another source, put it in quotation marks or in a quotation block and add one reference to the source at the end.
If you have a whole paragraph referring to one source but don't actually quote it, it gets a little bit more tricky. You have to make sure that a reader clearly understands that the whole paragraph is based on the source you are citing. A simple citation in parenthesis just added at the end of the last sentence may not be sufficient to make this clear. One way to cite in this case is to write something like "The following argument is based on (source)" at the beginning of the paragraph in question.