1. How to Cite...

2. A citation, yes, but not the kind we want to look at...

3. How to Cite When writing an essay in history, one of the most important technical aspects of your work is making sure that you give proper credit to the work of those authors that you use. While you are using their work in your own way, it is important to acknowledge where you have taken ideas, statistics, words and information from.

4. WHAT IS PLAGARISM? How to Cite

5. In order to avoid plagiarism, today we are going to look at how to properly cite your history essays. It is important to learn how to properly cite materials; otherwise you will have engaged in plagiarism – which can often result in a zero for the assignment, and in some extreme cases, a zero for your course, especially when you enter post- secondary education. How to Cite

6. For any assignments in this class, we will be using MLA Formatting – this is the style used by the Modern Languages Associations, hence MLA. It is a very common style of citation that is easy to use and gives the reader easy access to your sources.

7. How to Cite For MLA citation, there are two requirements – in-text citations that lets the reader know immediately from where you have taken the information, and a Bibliography, where you have more detailed information about your source.

8. How to Cite While many of you may be familiar with such websites as www.citationmachine.net, it is important to know how to properly cite materials on your own. These websites can often distort formatting, and if you give the incorrect information or put it into the wrong box, it will make the citation incorrect.

10. How to Cite What we are going to do today is to take a look at some of the most common sources that you will use in your research, and then we will learn how to make proper citations from these sources. After we have taken a look at that, we will then break off into groups to complete our activity included in this handout.

11. How to Cite The most commonly used sources at this level would be books, magazine articles, academic articles (maybe), chapters from anthologies, newspaper articles, encyclopaedic entries, and websites.

12. How to Cite Books In-text Garrison felt that the Southern slave owners had to free the slaves in order for the country to be fully equal (Shaw 145). Bibliography Shaw, William. Lyrical Ballads. London: Oxford U.P., 1967. Print. AUTHOR. TITLE OF BOOK. CITY OF PUBLICATION: PUBLISHER, YEAR. STYLE OF SOURCE.

14. How to Cite Magazine Articles In-text Garrison felt that the Southern slave owners had to free the slaves in order for the country to be fully equal (Kerr 27). Bibliography Kerr, Mariana. "Cousin Kay." Victoria November 2001: 27-28. Print. AUTHOR. “TITLE OF ARTICLE.” TITLE OF MAGAZINE DATE OF PUBLICATION: PAGES OF ARTICLE. STYLE OF SOURCE.

15. How to Cite Academic Articles In-text Garrison felt that the Southern slave owners had to free the slaves in order for the country to be fully equal (Myerson, 200). Bibliography Myerson, Joel. "A Calendar of Transcendental Club Meetings." American Literature 44 (1972): 197-207. Print. AUTHOR. “TITLE OF ARTICLE.” TITLE OF JOURNAL VOLUME OF JOURNAL (DATE OF PUBLICATION): PAGES OF ARTICLE. STYLE OF SOURCE.

18. How to Cite Chapters from Anthologies In-text Garrison felt that the Southern slave owners had to free the slaves in order for the country to be fully equal (James, 59). Bibliography James, Henry. "The Friends of Friends." The Norton Book of Ghost Stories. Ed. Brad Leithauser. New York: Norton, 1994. 40- 60. Print. AUTHOR. “TITLE OF ARTICLE.” TITLE OF BOOK. EDITOR OF BOOK. CITY OF PUBLICATION: PUBLISHER, YEAR. PAGES OF ARTICLE. STYLE OF SOURCE.

19. How to Cite Newspaper Articles In-text Garrison felt that the Southern slave owners had to free the slaves in order for the country to be fully equal (Johnson, F1). Bibliography Johnston, David Cay. "Got Game? Got Old Game?" New York Times 11 July 2003: F1. Print. AUTHOR. “TITLE OF ARTICLE.” NEWSPAPER DATE OF PUBLICATION: PAGE NUMBER. STYLE OF SOURCE.

21. How to Cite Encyclopaedic Entries In-text Garrison felt that the Southern slave owners had to free the slaves in order for the country to be fully equal (“Magna Carta” 521). Bibliography "Magna Carta." The New Encyclopedia Britannica. 15th ed. 1998. Print. “TITLE OF ENTRY.” ENCYCLOPEDIA. EDITION. YEAR. STYLE OF SOURCE.

22. How to Cite Websites In-text Garrison felt that the Southern slave owners had to free the slaves in order for the country to be fully equal (Campbell). Bibliography Campbell, Donna. The Edith Wharton Society. Washington State University. Web. 16 September 2010. AUTHOR. TITLE OF WEBSITE OR ARTICLE ON WEBSITE. HOST/ORGANIZATION OF WEBSITE. STYLE OF SOURCE. DATE YOUR VIEWED SITE.

24. How to Cite How to Cite Activity Working in groups of TWO to THREE PEOPLE, you will be using your new found skills to create appropriate IN- TEXT and BIBLIOGRAPHY citations from the information that you are given about each source.