*Use your NoodleTools account to create your Works Cited list. *Select the Chicago Citation Style and Advanced. *For help with your account, please ask Ms. Crow or Ms. Kane. |
Places to get help online:
United States Holocaust Museum: Website citation tips
Chicago Documentation Style by Diana Hacker: A quick overview of how to cite different sources in a bibliography and a footnote
Chicago Manual of Style - Purdue University Online Writing Lab: An excellent resource for citation information and research help.
Chicago Manual of Style: Online edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. Provides examples for obscure sources.
You should write down every source that gives you information for your project. For this project, your sources will likely include:
1) Print books
2) Encyclopedia articles, both from Spence Library databases and from printed books.
3) Magazine articles, print or online
4) Websites
5) Images from websites
Can I use the citations made by the database I am using?
Generally we find that information given within databases is misleading and their examples are routinely wrong. Databases often provide a "source citation" at the bottom of the article. Although these source citations provide useful data (e.g., title of the database, authors, etc.), spend the time to review them thoroughly and compare them to the style guide examples before simply copying and pasting those examples into your source list.
From the NoodeTools Help Desk
How to Create a Footnote
On a Word or Pages doc, place your cursor at the end of the sentence for which you must include a citation. To do this, go to the top menu bar and click on "INSERT." Scroll down to "FOOTNOTE" and click OK in the dialog box that pops up (don't change anything). You'll be taken to the bottom of the page and your cursor will appear after the small number (the same number will also appear in your text, where you had asked to insert). Input the citation information, if you are using NoodleTools, you can copy and paste the citation.
Hints:
When you do research, you should always remember that it is your responsibility as a scholar to give proper credit to the sources you use. A source is any book, web site. article, film, image or document you use in the course of your research. If you use someone else's ideas without telling the reader where you got the information, you are committing plagiarism. Plagiarism is a very serious form of academic dishonesty, and you must always take the greatest care to avoid it. To avoid plagiarism, simply provide documentation for any idea or facts that you found as part of your research. Documenting your sources also allows anyone who reviews your project to locate and verify your sources.
- Crow, Suzanne, "Guide to Writing Citations," The Spence School, last modified August 8, 2014, accessed September 25, 2014, https://spenceschool.onwhipplehill.com/podium/default.aspx?t=204&nid=736227.