In Chapter 20 of The Bedford Researcher it talked about how important it is to assign credit to those sources that have helped you during the process of writing your paper. It also provides a trail to help others to follow on that topic and protects you from plagiarism. An honest writer follows these rules closely in order to be credible and fair to those in the academic community.
There are many documentation systems. The one you choose to use will bear heavily on the field you are writing for. Different rules are set up for various organizations of how they prefer to document and organize the huge amount of information that is shared worldwide. The four most common formats are:
- MLA-Modern Language Association-It is used for the humanities
- APA-American Psychological Association- It is used for the social sciences.
- Chicago-Created by the University of Chicago Press-It is used in the humanities, history and journalism.
- CSE-Council of Science Editors-It is mainly used for physical and life sciences and mathematics
The format you choose is guides by this list or what your professor tells you they prefer. For this essay we will be using the MLA format that we just did a lab on this past Thursday.
The Bedford Researcher has this list of information to include in a citation.
- Author or editor
- title
- publication date
- publisher or city of publication
- periodical name, volume, issue and page numbers
- URL and access date for online publications
I will be referring closely to my handouts from class and the handbook in order to get this right.
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