Physical Geography 12

As you start diving into more complex topics and curriculum content, you may find that you need to supplement your content with outside sources. These sources may include but are not limited to: newspaper articles, research articles, and/or images.

1) You are publishing an academic product which means that your product should be supported by reliable and valid sources. Google and Wikipedia WILL NOT always be able to provide reliable and valid sources.

2) When publishing an academic source, you MUST give credit or provide a citation to the original sources that you used to support your learning. Google and Wikipedia WILL NOT provide these for you. The research databases on the STMC learning network will craft the citations for you.

Work smart, not hard.

1) To start and give you something more targeted and specific in the search bar.

2) If you can't find anything on the research databases, Google and Wikipedia may provide you with search terms that may more effective

Most of your needs for this course will be met using World Book and Gale.

World Book is an encyclopedia. Use it to find basic introductory information.

Videos about "How to use the World Book database".

Gale has magazine articles, newspaper articles, research articles, and images that you can use. It is probably the most helpful database that you will come across for your eSportfolio.

Videos about "How to use the Gale database".

Both World Book and Gale will have citations that you can copy and paste embedded in their article. You should put this at the BOTTOM of your eSportfolio page under the title "Works Cited".

If you are looking to cite IN your paragraph, for most articles, it will be (Author's last name, p. #). If there is no page number, author's last name or editor or creator is appropriate.

Click HERE for more information regarding citations.

1) Periodical (i.e. newspaper or magazine) Template:

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article. Title of Online Periodical, volume number(issue number if available). Retrieved from

https://www.someaddress.com/full/url/

ex: Fraser, S. (2011, April 29). Dead heat: what killed the victims of a historic volcanic eruption? Current Science, a Weekly Reader

publication, 96(15), 8+. Retrieved from

https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A255841023/SCICu=39sbo&sid=SCIC&xid=18d462f4

World Book article: [Mount St. Helens, USA]

Child, J.C. (2019). Mount Saint Helens. In World Book Student. Retrieved from https://www.worldbookonline.com/student-new/#/article/home/ar375300

Newspaper article: [Colima, Mexico]

So Much Ash, Such a Little Broom. (2005, June 9). New York Times, p. A4(L). Retrieved from

https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A133095987/SCIC?u=39sbo&sid=SCIC&xid=77f34a5e

Newspaper article [Sakurajima, Japan]:

Burk, Rachelle. "Electric eruption!" Science World/Current Science, 2 Sept. 2013, p. 6. Gale In Context: Science,

https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A343155337/SCIC?u=39sbo&sid=SCIC&xid=718c3626. Accessed 17 Oct. 2019.

NOTE:

1) MLA uses "Works Cited" while APA uses "References".

2) Your citations must be arranged and organized in alphabetical order.