Citing ORIGINAL CONTENT

How to Read an ORIGINAL Source

Citation

Once you’ve identified your article as an

ORIGINAL SOURCE, where do you go from there?

Citing a source is like putting together

a jigsaw puzzle – each piece has to come together just so in order for the

puzzle to make the big picture.

Locate your citation information at the end of your article. Look for “MLA” or “Works Cited” or “How to Cite.”

Example Article

Example Article

Now let’s put the pieces together …

AUTHOR(S) OF ARTICLE(hint – it is okay if you do

not have an author)

TITLE OF ARTICLE(hint – this title often appears

in “quotation marks” )

PUBLICATION DATE(hint – if the year does not

appear in the citation itself, scroll to the bottom of the page for the

date next to the ©)

RETRIEVAL INFORMATION(pick ONLY the ONE that applies to your article)

1. DOI - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0002-9432.76.4.482

OR

2. DATABASE NAME + ACCESSION/DOCUMENT #

OR

3. URL to the .COM

Now you’re ready to create your works cited entry in your working bibliography in

NoodleTools.

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