Cite everything!

You MUST provide a citation for every source (article, website, database, book, etc.) you use in your research on a "Works Cited" page or slide.

Every image and video you include in your site must also be cited.

Articles you find in our eBooks and databases "cite themselves" for you.  These citations are almost always at the bottom of the article (and you only have to copy and paste them into your "Works Cited" page or whatever document you are using to keep track of your sources.)  Sometimes these tools will also have a "Cite This" or "How to Cite This" button on their page which you can click.

You will need to provide citations for the websites, books and images you use yourself.  This can be done very easily using an online citation generator website like NOODLETOOLS:

Websites 

• Select WEBSITE

• Select WEBPAGE

• Fill out as much as you can on form including:

  1. URL

  2. Date of publication

  3. Date of access (can click today to autofill)

  4. Web page or document/article title

  5. Name of website

  6. Publisher of website

• Click SAVE 

 Books

• Select PRINT/IN-HAND

• Select BOOK

• Fill out as much as you can on form including:

  1. Contributors (Author)

  2. Title of book

  3. Volume information

  4. Publisher

  5. Year

• Click  SAVE 

 Images

• Select WEBSITE

• Select PHOTO or IMAGE (BORN DIGITAL)

• Fill out as much as you can on form including:

  1. Name of website

  2. URL

  3. Date of access

  4. Descriptive title

• Click SAVE

YouTube Video Clips

• Select WEBSITE

• Select VIDEO CLIP (online)

• Fill out:

  • URL of your selected YouTube video

  • Click TODAY for most recent date of access

  • TITLE of video clip

  • Name of WEBSITE (for example, YouTube)

  • Contributor(s) – “posted by”

When you are finished citing all your sources, you can EXPORT them (into Word or Google Docs) as a perfectly formatted Works Cited page!