Portfolio entry #3: CITATION RULES

 HOW TO CITE SOURCES

There are several ways to cite a source (MLA, Turabian, Chicago). Here you have APA Citation Style

Author(s). (Date). Title of Book/ "Title of Article"/ Title of Periodical/ Volume. Pages. Place of Publication. Publisher.

Journal or Magazine Article

Wilcox, R. V. (1991). "Shifting roles and synthetic women in Star Trek: The Next Generation". Studies in Popular Culture, 13(2), 53-65.

Journal or Magazine Article

Dubeck, L. (1990). "Science fiction aids science teaching." Physics Teacher, 28, 316-318.

Newspaper Article

Di Rado, A. (1995, March 15). "Trekking through college: Classes explore modern society using the world of Star Trek." Los Angeles Times, p. A3.

Article from an Internet Database

Mershon, D. H. (1998, November-December). "Star Trek on the brain: Alien minds, human minds." American Scientist, 86, 585. Retrieved July 29, 1999, from Expanded Academic ASAP database.

Book

Okuda, M., &; Okuda, D. (1993). Star Trek Chronology: The History of the Future. New York: Book Pocket Books

Article or Chapter

James, N. E. (1988). "Two Sides of Paradise: The Eden Myth according to Kirk and Spock," in D. Palumbo (Ed.), Spectrum of the fantastic (pp. 219-223). Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Encyclopedia Article

Sturgeon, T. (1995). Science fiction, in The Encyclopedia Americana (Vol. 24, pp. 390-392). Danbury, CT: Grolier.

Website

Lynch, T. (1996). DS9 trials and tribble-ations review. Retrieved  from Psi Phi: Bradley's Science Fiction Club. Last visited: May 15th, 2020. Available at: http://www.bradley.edu/campusorg/psiphi/DS9/ep/ 503r.html

Notes

• Arrange the items on your reference list alphabetically by author, interfiling books, articles, etc.
• Use only the initials of the authors' first (and middle) names.
• If no author is given, start with the title and then the date.
• Magazine articles: include the month (and day) as shown under Newspapers.
• Websites: if the date the page was created is not given, use (n.d.).

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MORE EXAMPLES!

Journal or Magazine Article:
O’Gorman, E. (1999). Detective fiction and historical narrative. 

Book:
Shriver, D.F. and Atkins, P.W. (1999). 

Newspaper Article:
Guardian. (2005). Emotive words linked to asthma.

Website:
Smith, T., & Williams, B.M. (2019). How to structure a dissertation. Retrieved from: https://www.scribbr.com/category/dissertation/

Encyclopedia Article: 
McGhee, K., & McKay, G. (2007). Insects. In 

Article from an Internet Database:
Ostro, A. (2009, Oct. 8). Twitter is frozen in time. Mashable. Retrieved from: 

Chapter: 
Payne, S. (1999). 'Dangerous and different': Reconstructions of madness in the 1990s and the role of mental health policy. In S. Watson & L. Doyal (Eds.), 


Metacognitive Analysis

Academic research needs to be supported by other works previously done which must be properly cited. Nowadays, thanks to technology, we have access to a countless amount of material that can support the ideas in our writing. Cite means to indicate where the information was taken from and who the author is. This, not only eases the identification and access to the sources consulted, but also gives reliability to our work.

Citing properly is an intellectual integrity act. It is not just about indicating where the information was taken from, moreover is about recognizing  the authorship of the writers and their worth avoiding plagiarism. Therefore it would be morally incorrect to claim as your own a content which is not.