Citing Internet Sources
Chatfield Senior High School
When you are citing information from a website, the site should be high quality. This
means that you should evaluate a website for validity, relevance, currency, and
authority. Avoid sites that end in .com. Look for sites that come from reputable
sources. These sites usually end in one of the following; .edu, .gov, or .org.
Including the entire URL (web address) is optional.
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Website:
Site Title. Last date updated day month year. Producers. Publication medium.
Visitation day month year. URL address. (or n.d. for no date, or N.p. for no publisher)
Example:
The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000. 3 April 2003. American
Library Association. Web. April 15, 2004.
<http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/100mostfrequently.htm>
On-line Government site:
Country. Department Name. Site Title. Last Date Updated. Publication medium. Date
visited day Month year. URL address
Example:
United States. U.S. Dept. of the Interior. High Country Travelers: A Brief Park
History. 13 Jan. 2004. Web. 15 April 2004.
< http://www.nps.gov/romo/resources/history/parkhistory.html>
Citing Other Sources
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Television or Radio Program
“Subtitle of show.” Main title of show. Network. Local Network, City. Day Month
Year. Publication medium.
Example:
“Greece behind in Summer Games.” 60 Minutes. CBS. KCNC, Denver 11 April
2004.TV.
Video or DVD
Title. Videocassette or DVD. Production Company, Date. Publication medium.
Example:
Of Mice and Men. Videocassette. MGM/ United Artist. 1992. DVD.
Film
Title. Dir.(Director) First and Last Name. Perf. (Performers) Production Company,
date. Publication medium.
Example:
The Green Mile. Dir. Frank Darabont. Perf. Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt,
Michael Clark Duncan. Castle Rock Entertainment, 1999. Film.
Style Guide for Citing Resources
CHS uses Modern Language Association (MLA) style. The information
contained here is based on the citations and definitions found in
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers and is meant
to be used as a quick reference.
It is your responsibility to cite sources in your research paper to give credit to
those individuals considered to be experts in the field of study that you are
researching. In a sense you are borrowing their expertise to gain knowledge, so
you must give them credit. Not citing the source and using the expert’s
information is called plagiarism and is illegal.
In addition, citing your sources will show that you know how many sources you
have referred to in order to complete your assignment. Looking at a number of
sources instead of just one or two will allow you to develop a well-rounded paper.
Finally, citing your resources will allow others to find additional information
about their topic if they are interested in further study.
If you need further help…
The following are sources that can help you with citation examples that are not
given here:
The Owl at Purdue
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/
MLA Style citations
http://thewritesource.com/mla.htm
Citation Machine
http://citationmachine.net/
Writing Center at University of Wisconsin
http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/DocMLA.html
If you use databases, the citations are already there !!
The following examples give the format first, then an example of how the format
is used. Please pay careful attention to how the citation is ordered and
punctuated. (Note that using italics has replaced underlining.)
Citing Articles
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An article in a reference book without an author identification:
“Title of the article”. Title of the reference book. Edition number. Copyright.
Publication medium.
Example:
“Cleopatra I”. Britannica. 15th Edition. 1993. Print.
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With author identification:
Author’s Last name, First name. “Title of the article”. Title of the reference book.
Edition number. Copyright. Publication medium.
Example:
Augee, Michael. “Kangaroo”. World Book. 2002. Print.
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An article from a periodical (magazine):
Author’s Last name, First name. “Title of the article”. Title of the magazine.
Edition number. Publication date: page numbers. Publication medium.
Example:
Hoffer, Richard. “Golden Oldie”. Sports Illustrated. Vol. 100, No. 14. April 5,
2004: 30-32. Print.
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An article from a newspaper:
“Title of the article”. Title of the newspaper [city of publication] day Month year,
Section: page. Print Medium.
Example:
“Panel Oks College Voucher Bill”. The Denver Post [Denver] 15 April 2004, Sec.
B: 2. Print.
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An article from a database service such as Gale Student Resource Center
Gold, Infotrac or Facts.com:
“Title of the article”. Name of the source. Online. Database Host, Publication
medium. Visited Date.
Citing Book Sources
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Books with one author:
Author’s Last name, First name. Title. City: Publisher, copyright. Publication
medium
Example:
Zienert, Karen. Those Incredible Women of World War II. Brookfield: Millbrook
Press, 1994. Print.
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Books with two or three authors:
First author’s Last name, First name. and the second author’s first name last
name. Title. City: Publisher, copyright. Publication medium.
Example:
Estell, Doug, Michele L. Satchwell and Patricia S. Wright. Reading Lists for
College-Bound Students. 2nd Ed. New York: Macmillan, 1993. Print.
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Books with more than three authors:
This citation adds the phrase et al. which means and others.
Author’s Last name, First name, et al. Title. City: Publisher, copyright.
Publication medium.
Example:
Webster, Christopher, et al. Autism. New York: Pergamon Press, 1980.
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Books with an editor:
This adds the phrase ed. which stands for editor
Editor’s Last name, First name, ed. Title. City: Publisher, copyright.
Publication medium.
Example:
Lanier, Robert, ed. The Photographic History of the Civil War: Armies and
Leaders. New York: Fairfax Press, 1983. Print.
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A single work from an anthology:
Use the name of the author of the single piece you chose and then the editor after
the title of the anthology.
Author’s Last name, First name. “Title of the piece”. Title of the anthology.
Editor. Edition Number of the anthology if appropriate. City: Publisher,
copyright. Publication medium.
Example:
O’Neill, June. “ Poverty: Programs and Policies.” Thinking About America: The
United States in the 1990’s. Annelise Anderson and Dennis L. Bark eds. Stanford:
Hoover Institution Press, 1988. Print
Example:
“WTC Memorial Finalist; All 8 Designs Use Footprints of Twin Towers”. The
Washington Times. Online. Infotrac Student Edition. Web. Visited April 15, 2004.
Henderson, Shirley. “Snack Attack: Replacing Junk Food With Nutritious
Alternatives.” Ebony. April 2005, 60 :118-121. Gale Student Resource Center
Gold. Chatfield Sr. High Library. Web. 24 May 2005.
<http://galenet.galegroup.com>.
If you use databases, the citations are already there!!