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Editorial Research Project: Citations

Doeblin 10H

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 conductedSee 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 databasesDO NOT use preformatted citations from websites (you must build these yourself in Noodletools)

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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.