ENTRY#3 HOW TO CITE SOURCES

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

Author(s). (Date). Title of Book/ "Title of Article"/ Title of Periodical/ Volume. Pages. Place of Publication. Publisher. 

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

Samples.
Newspaper article.
Krugman, Andrew.”Fear of Eating”. New YorkTimes, late ed., 21 May 2007, A1.

Book.
Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth- Century literary Imagination. Yale UP, 1979.

Translated Book.
Focault, Michel.Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Translated by Richard Howard, Vintage-Ramdom House, 1988.

Website.
“Warhol. Headlines”. National Gallery of Art, 2011<http. //www.nga.gov/exhibitions/warholinfo.shtm>

Article.
Weintraub, Arlene and Laura Cohen. “A Thousand-Year Plan for Nuclear Waste. “Business Week”, 6 May 2002, pp. 94-96.


Metacognitive Analysis#3.
On the one hand, citation is very important to avoid getting into trouble for plagiarism. It is good to search the internet and books to find useful information and add it to our works, provided that the sources of that information are properly cited.

On the other hand, citing is a way of backing up our arguments, making our writing stronger and credible. Moreover, citing sources may well improve the quality of our writing productions. Yet, it will only work if the information we obtain  derives from reliable and respected sources.

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