1. Recording Sources
Source Cards

2. Source Cards
Each time you find a book, article, interview, government document, etc you can use, prepare a source card.
A source card is important for many reasons:
It allows you to easily find that source again
It gives you a “jump start” on your works cited page

3. Source Cards Source Number Bibliographic Citation
Place Where Source is Found 1
Bryden. M.P. “Additional Attentional Strategies in Listening.” National Review of Cognitive Psycology 33 (1999): Apr <
EBSCO

4. Source Number Located in the upper-right hand corner Always circled
Each separate source (book, article, government document, etc) gets its own number
Number is also used on your note card so you do not have to write the citation again.

5. Place Where Source is Housed
Located in lower left-hand corner
Name of the library (LHS Library/Lebanon Public Library), the internet database (EBSCO/Academic Search Premier), etc.

6. Bibliographic Citation
Located in center of card
Always formatted with an indention on all lines after the first
Allows you to relocate the source
Gives you a jump start on your works cited page
Necessary to avoid plagiarism

7. Bibliographic Citations
For your research, you may only use books, magazine articles (print or electronic), or articles from scholarly journals.
Here are the exact bibliographic citations for each:

8. Books Updike, John. Hugging the Shore. New York: Random House, 1983.
Author’s last name, first name. Book Title. City of Publication: Publishing Company, Year of Publication.

9. Print Magazine Articles
Smith, Shelly. “Baseball’s Forgotten Pioneers.” Sports Illustrated. 30 March 1992: 72.
Author’s last name, first name. “Article Title.” Magazine Title. Date of publication: page number.

10. Internet Magazine Article
Russell, Ian. “Family Myths and Family Realities.” Salon 12 Dec Feb 2001<
Author’s last name, first name. “Article Title.” Magazine Title Date of Publication. Date of Access <URL>.

11. Article in Scholarly Journal
Bryden, M.P. “Additional Attentional Strategies in Listening.” National Review of Cognitive Psycology 33 (1999): Apr 2001<
Author’s last name, first name. “Title of Article.” Name of Scholarly Journal Volume number (Year of publication): page numbers. Date of access <URL>.