Portfolio Entry #3: Citation Rules



The headmaster mumbles and sighs to himself.
''These kids forgot to put their sources again,
even after reminding them every day...''

We offer him a drink to cheer him up.


HOW TO CITE SOURCES

There are several ways to cite a source (MLA, Turabian, Chicago). Here you have APA Citation Style



Journal or Magazine Article
Wilcox, R. V. (1991). "Shifting roles and synthetic women in Star Trek: The Next Generation". Studies in Popular Culture, 13(2), 53-65.


Journal or Magazine Article

Dubeck, L. (1990). "Science fiction aids science teaching." Physics Teacher, 28, 316-318.


Newspaper Article
Di Rado, A. (1995, March 15). "Trekking through college: Classes explore modern society using the world of Star Trek." Los Angeles Times, p. A3.


Article from an Internet Database
Mershon, D. H. (1998, November-December). "Star Trek on the brain: Alien minds, human minds." American Scientist, 86, 585. Retrieved July 29, 1999, from Expanded Academic ASAP database.


Book
Okuda, M., &; Okuda, D. (1993). Star Trek Chronology: The History of the Future. New York: Book Pocket Books


Article or Chapter
James, N. E. (1988). "Two Sides of Paradise: The Eden Myth according to Kirk and Spock," in D. Palumbo (Ed.), Spectrum of the fantastic (pp. 219-223). Westport, CT: Greenwood.


Encyclopedia Article
Sturgeon, T. (1995). Science fiction, in The Encyclopedia Americana (Vol. 24, pp. 390-392). Danbury, CT: Grolier.


Website
Lynch, T. (1996). DS9 trials and tribble-ations review. Retrieved  from Psi Phi: Bradley's Science Fiction Club. Last visited: May 15th, 2020. Available at: http://www.bradley.edu/campusorg/psiphi/DS9/ep/503r.html

Notes
  • Arrange the items on your reference list alphabetically by author, interfiling books, articles, etc.
  • Use only the initials of the authors' first (and middle) names.
  • If no author is given, start with the title and then the date.
  • Magazine articles: include the month (and day) as shown under Newspapers.
  • Websites: if the date the page was created is not given, use (n.d.).

        
    adapted from: http://essayinfo.com/citations/index.php
More examples:

Littlewood, W. (2004) The task-based approach: some questions and suggestions. ELT Journal, Volume 58, Issue 4. Oxford University Press.

Robert F. (2011). El caballero de la Armadura Oxidada, pg. 95. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ediciones Obelisco.


Starrulet (2017) 2p!Hetaoni - Chapter 11 - Team Journal - Part 2. Retrieved from DeviantArt. Last visited: May 30th, 2020. Available at: 
https://www.deviantart.com/starrulet/art/2p-HetaOni-Chapter-11-Team-Journal-Part-2-677252268

Tolkien, J.R.R. (2000). El Hobbit, pg. 129. Barcelona, Spain. Ediciones Minotauro, Pocket Edition.

TunaFishChris (2017) Held Together by Spiderwebs, Ch. 3. Retrieved from Archive Of Our Own (AO3). Last visited: May 30th, 2020. Available at:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/11522724/chapters/25876152


Metacognitive Analysis

As we saw in the previous entry, there are a lot of formats to cite sources, so it's far too easy to confuse and mix them all. APA format seems to be the most practical for students in comparison to the Traditional Endnotes or Footnotes format, which uses latin abbreviations.

The act of citing sources is not just to show that you are well informed in the topic you wrote, but to show respect for another author's work and give the credit they deserve. As teachers, we must set an example. We must give credit to the authors when we use material for our lessons (unless we make it ourselves), so that students pick up this habit and carry it out in their everyday life. Whether it be academic writings, stories, videos or photos, if they can write and give credits to an author, they should do it.

We should frown on acts of stealing and plagiarizing, at the very least.

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