Citing Web Sources forEssay #3

What type of sources will you likely use?

Maps Information found on websites and

either quoted or put into your own words

General Overview

General Overview

Name of page/article

Name of website Name of publisher

General Overview

Works Cited

“Idaho Rivers.” Map. Visit Idaho. Idaho Department of

Commerce, n.d. Web. 3 March 2010.

Citing A Map

Fig. 1 “Idaho Rivers”

When maps are used as part of a document, the maps must be referenced (cited) in two places. First, maps must be given a caption. Use Fig. 1 (and later Fig. 2 and so on if you have other visuals…).

Caption

Fig. 1 [“Maplewood, NJ”]

Citing A Google Map (with no title)

Caption

If you give the map a title, place brackets so the reader knows that it is your name.

Citing information from a webpage

Author of Site: Cornell University Library

Title of Article/Section of Site: “Introduction to Research”

Name of Website: Cornell University Library

Name of Publisher: Cornell University

Date put on Web: 2009

Date information was retrieved by the author: June 19, 2009

Citing information from a webpage

According to the Cornell Library, students should be aware that there are systematic ways to approach research that can always be used even when the specific demands of particular assignments vary (Cornell).

Original source:

As paraphrased with parenthetical citation:

Works Cited entry:

Citing information from a webpage: Can use for Census Bureau info