Citing sources

CITE THOSE SOURCES

Give Credit….Where Credit is Due

Why Cite the Sources

If you don’t tell where you got your information, you are plagiarizing (STEALING) Essentially, it is like you are lying to your reader.

You have used someone else’s ideas without telling your reader where you took it from.

How can I avoid plagiarism? Basically, any idea or fact that you received from a

source needs to be cited. Any idea or fact that is common knowledge does not need to be cited.

Works Cited Page

What is a “Works Cited” Page? A “Works Cited” page is the name that MLA gives to a bibliography. It is a listing of all of the sources you cited in the body of your paper. Here are a few things to keep in mind about the “Works Cited” page:

The “Works Cited” page is always going to be the last page of your essay or report. You should type the words “Works Cited” and center it on the page.

Each entry reads like one long sentence. What this means is that it does not matter where the second line begins in an entry; it begins on the second line only because you ran out of room on the first line.

The second and subsequent lines are always indented five spaces.

The sources are listed alphabetically by the first word or name of the entry. This first word or name should be what you use in your parenthetical citation.

Books in the Library

Open the BCJH Catalog Search for your research subject

Citing the Book

Click on the title of the book—all the info you need is there (This can also be found on the back of the Title page of the book.)

Author---Rebecca Love Fishkin

Title----Heroes of the Holocaust

Publisher-----Compass Point Books

Publishing City---Mankata, MN

Copyright Date----2011

When you click on the subjects, you may find more books to help

Help on the BCJH Library Website

Go to the BCJH Library website:

To access today’s powerpoint

Example of Works Cited Page

To get correct citations for you Works Cited page

Use a citation maker

Book Information

Works Cited Information-----COPY AND PASTE IT!!!!!!!!!!!

Works Cited

Fishkin, Rebecca. Heroes of the Holocaust. Mankato, MN: Compass Point Books, 2011. 55-57. Print.

Find your information on the web, but get the web page information before leaving the page

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Copy & Paste into the Works Cited Page!!!

Works Cited

Fishkin, Rebecca. Heroes of the Holocust. Mankato, MN: Compass Point Books, 2011. 55-57. Print.

Webb, Chris. "Oskar Shindler." Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team. H.E.A.R.T., 2007. Web. 9 Apr 2012. <http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/survivor/schindler.html>.

Remember…….

Always cite your sources!!! Don’t plagiarize!!!

Always get the information you need before turning in the book or leaving the web page.

There is always help on the Library web page.