Draft Bibliography Assignment Due Tuesday, July 24 (10pts)

Table of Contents

The Assignment / Styles / Rules that Always Apply
What if the Author Isn’t Identified? / What if the Date is Not Identified?
A Final Plea When Citing Web Pages

The Assignment

For this assignment I want you to provide me with a list of your sources of information for your research poster. You should have many references. These should include articles that were a source of ideas and facts as well as web pages that only provided you with a photo or figure. Your list should follow the formats as detailed below.

List them all!

If you have a photo, figure, quote or idea that you want to use but you don’t know where you got it, you’ll need to omit it from your poster. If you don’t give credit where it is due in any thing you produce, then that is plagiarism. Aside from being grounds for a bad grade or even dismissal from college (for multiple offenses), UWB (and I) could be sued for theft of intellectual property if we published your plagiarized research product.

How do I want you to list your bibliography? We’ll generally use the APA format, with some modifications. To see more detailed, colorful examples citing references in this style, see http://www.liu.edu/CWIS/CWP/library/workshop/citapa.htm. Also check out the more detailed discussion of citing sources found on the internet here:

Styles

There are many different kinds of references and each one gets listed a little differently. I have provided examples below of how to cite sources from different kinds of references. But first, here are some citation rules that always apply, regardless of reference type.

Journal articles

Turner, RJ (2000). How to torture students with many assignments. Journal of Student Sleep Deprivation, 94(4): 23-27.

If there are multiple authors…

Smith, AB, Jones, CD, and Brown, EF (1986). Article title. Journal Name, volume #(issue #): pages.

Books

Henderson, P (1988). Chemical Oceanography. Pergamon Press, New York, NY.

If your reference is just part of a larger book, use the following format…

Menard H. W. and Williams P. T. (1965). Sea floor relief and mantle convection. In Physics of the Earth (ed. B. R. Merlot), pp. 315-364. Pergamon Press, NY, NY.

Web sites

Daniel, RT (1995). The history of Western music. In Britannica online: Macropaedia [Online]. Available: [2006, October 9].

This date at the end is the date you read the article.

What if the Author is Not Identified?

This is unfortunately very common on government and non-profit web sites. In these cases, identify the reference by the organization that put it out. For example…

U.S. Geological Survey (date). As above

But often, you can figure out who wrote the article by doing some snooping around.

What if the Date is Not Identified?

Look closer. You can often find at the bottom of a web page when it was last updated.

You can see an example here: http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/watershed/wacademy/acad2000/watershedmgt/index.html

If you can’t find anything, then do the following…

Pritzker, TJ (No date). An Early fragment from central Nepal [Online]. Available: [2000, October 9].

A Final Plea when Citing Web Pages

Let’s say you want to cite the Principles of Watershed Management module. This

is the URL you want to write in your bibliography. Not www.epa.gov That is not specific enough. The point of a bibliography is it enables someone to track down your sources. Keep that in mind as you put yours together. I’ll be much easier going about style as long as it is possible to use your bibliography to recreate and follow-up on your research. As part of fulfilling this objective, check your citations to make sure they work. It is all too easy to misspell these long pesky URLs and they are capital sensitive.