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Dr. Michael L. Monheit
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INSTRUCTIONS
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CITATIONS
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YOUR PAPERS
Dear Students, In your papers, I want you to use endnotes or footnotes, and provide a bibliography at the end. You need to provide a bibliography of each work you use in your paper, of whatever kind. In addition, you need to cite each work in your paper every time you use it, whether you are directly quoting it or not. The following link provides a guide showing how to cite various kinds of works, such as single author books, multi-author books, articles in journals, etc. (A chapter in a book is similar to a journal article, except that you substitute the book information for the journal information). Guide to citations and bibliography. This link provides examples for Internet sources: Web_Citations_From_Turabian_citationguide.html These guides leave out two important pieces of information: How to enter the number for the foot- or end-note in the text, and how to enter citations to a given work after you have given the first, full citation. For a footnote or endnote, you first insert a superscripted number like the one at the end of this sentence.1 Then at the bottom of the page (footnotes), or the end of the paper (endnotes), you place the citation information in numbered order: 1. John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 vols., (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1960), 372. This follows the example in the page I have linked below for a book with one author, except that I've placed the number in front of it. The footnote and endnote methods are the same, except that in the footnote method your numbered citation is at the bottom of the page, while in the endnote method, your notes are listed by number at the end of the paper, before the bibliography. Most word processors can do footnotes, but it is just as well to do endnotes. Also note that works are not numbered in the bibliography, but rather placed in alphabetical order by author. In the bibliography, the author's last name comes first, while in the note, the author's first name comes first (as I did above). When you cite a work the second time and thereafter, you use a short form. For example, the next citation of Calvin's Institutes would only have to say "Calvin, 326." However if you have two works by Calvin, then you need to give a short form of the title, for example: "Calvin, Institutes, 326." If you are citing an article in a journal or an article or source in a book, in the second entry you give the name of the author of the article or source and the page number, not the name of the editor of the book or journal. For example if you are citing an article or source written by Smith, in a book edited by Jones, your second and later citations of that work should be "Smith, 26," NOT "Jones, 26." Your reader needs to know whose writings you are discussing. Your reader cannot tell whom you are discussing from a page number in a collection of several writings with only the name of the editor. |
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