BASICS - CITING RESOURCES - Research Guides at University of Wisconsin-Stout

Definition

A Citation or Bibliographic Citation is a reference to a published or unpublished work.

Information usually includes:

For a book: author, title, publisher, and date.
For an article: author, title of the article, title of the periodical, volume, pages, date, and database info.

Resources are cited in a student paper and citations are listed at the end of the paper.

Ask your instructor which format he/she prefers you to use for citing resources. APA (American Psychological Association) and MLA (Modern Language Association) are the most commonly used at UW-Stout.

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Citing Resources Tips

PURPOSE:

The purpose of the citation is to allow the information to be retrieved again. Make sure that the information provided in the citation will allow a repeat of the process.

ACCURACY:

Copy the web addresses exactly as they are found. Extraneous spaces, missing spaces, errors in upper/lower case characters, and misleading symbols in URL's will usually cause failure in retrieval. Copy/Paste the URL into the citation whenever possible.

E-MAILS:

When citing an e-mail, listserv or newsgroup, you have an ethical obligation to be able to produce the message or posting upon request. The essence of citation is verification of information. If a reader cannot retrieve the source, s/he cannot see the full context or confirm the accuracy of presentation.

DATES:

The date provided on a web resource may not be the original date of publication for a resource. It may be when it was added to the web. Subscription indexes, however, use the date the article was published.