Documentation basics

Basics of Sources, References, and Citations.

E. Siler

Choose a Reliable Source

Info-Mine the Source

Select a Reference Format

Follow the Model Carefully

Link the Source to the Reference

• If your source doesn’t have a link available, use the technique described in this slidecast to link your source to the reference.

• Every reference must be connected to the source itself. http://www.slideshare.net/ElizabethSiler/savingsources-27084287

Paraphrase

Paraphrase Guidelines

• http://www.slideshare.net/ElizabethSiler/moreonparaphrase-26288507

Cite

• The feline researchers Drs. Johnson and O’Brien used mitochondrial DNA to categorize most modern cats into eight different lineage-based groups (Wade, 2006).

Check Your Work

• 1. Read what you paraphrased. Does it have a citation?

• 2. Does the citation lead directly to a reference in the reference list?

• 3. Does the reference have a link to a source?• 4. Does the source show what is paraphrased

in the text? • If the answer to one of these questions is “no”

you have a BIG problem.