Citing a source means to give credit to the author.
Usually at the end of a project or report there is a Reference List, (or
Bibliography) where you have written down every source you used to make your project.
There are many ways to write a citation, but the one you need to use is this
one:
Example:
| For BOOKS Author's last name, Author's first name. (Year). Title of
text. City of publication: Name of publisher.
Fradin, Dennis. (1995). Polar bears.
New York: Prentice Hall Publishers. |
For MAGAZINES
Author's last name, Author's first name. (Year).
Title of text. Name of Magazine Volume number (Issue number).
Page numbers.
| Mead, Marilyn. (1992). Polar bears' survival habits. Wildlife
18 (3). 133-140. |
For Computer sources
Author's last name, Author's first name. (Year).
Title of text. URL or title of program.
Milbury, Peter. (1997). Polar bears on
the Net. http://www.syr.edu/~pmilbury/bear.html |
|
At the end of your report or project, start
a new page with References (or Bibliography) at the top for the title. Then list all
of your citations alphabetically by the authors' last names.
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