Shawn Lees-Carr

SLM521

Elective 12 Citing Sources

WOULD NOT USE

Electronic Media and URLs - http://www.apastyle.org/elecmedia.html

This website connects directly to the APA and its publication. The page contains bits and pieces about APA style, but it depends on readers buying the reference book. While the list of FAQs may be somewhat helpful, for students who are just beginning the citation process, these questions may be too vague and overwhelming. I would not use this cite as a starting point for students, especially younger students (even ninth-graders may feel lost).

Students may benefit from viewing an introductory tutorial locating on the site -- http://flash1r.apa.org/apastyle/basics/index.htm. This slideshow covers many aspects of APA style, not just citations. It does contain an interesting chart showing citation examples, which could be isolated.

General Forms for Electronic References - http://apastyle.apa.org/

Citations in Text of Electronic Material - http://www.apastyle.org/electext.html

WOULD USE

Skillman & Kirby Libraries · Lafayette College · Easton, PA
http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~library/guides/cite.html (This link didn’t take me to a useful page so I searched the site for MLA information and came up with the site below.)

Lafayette College Library http://library.lafayette.edu/help/citing/webpages

This site breaks down the MLA/APA citation into its individual components and explains what needs to be included in the MLA citation and APA citation. Instead of separating out both styles into two different pages, this page covers both at the same time, which makes comparing the two styles easier. This can be beneficial, especially for older students who are often required to learn BOTH types of citation styles. Although the site contains examples, it is not very graphically friendly and is pretty text dense.

Indiana University Libraries - http://www.indiana.edu/~libugls/Publications/electronic_mla.html

This site makes good use of white space and orders the examples based on the text type. Students can easily scan through the site to find the type of material they are trying to cite. Students may need support with locating the information as there are no graphics to show where to find specific features required in the citation. This site also only covers MLA style.

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html

This is a graphically-friendly, colorful and well-organized site. There are clear contents listed and the information is categorized. The site covers many different types of citation methods, including both MLA and APA. Additional links and resources are provided in case students need more information. Each section contains a generic description of the information needed and specific examples showing the formatting. There are many different scenarios and examples presented. The site also provides a visual breakdown of the citation style and labels each part. Finally, students can also use this site to review how to cite within their paper.

Citation Helpers: Students often rely on various tools to create citations, especially when they find out our libraries link to several. Having used these myself, I find they are valuable to helping students learn what information in required. They walk students though the citation process, focusing oin the information. I also, however, have found that sometimes these citation makers make mistakes, especially with formatting.

Noodletools -- http://www.noodletools.com/

Citation Machine (Landmark's Son of citation Machine) - http://citationmachine.net/

Bibme -- http://www.bibme.org/

Practicing Web Site Citing:

http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/index.html MLA style using bibme.org

"Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies." Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies. 13 July 2009 <http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/index.html>.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html APA style using noodlbib.org

The world fact book. (n.d.). Retrieved July 13, 2009, from Central Intelligence Agency Web

site: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html.

http://www.nascar.com/DRIVERS/winston/KHarvick00/index.html using APA style

2003 Winston Cup Series drivers. NASCAR. Retrieved July 13, 2009, from

http://www.nascar.com/drivers/list/wc/dps/.

http://fno.org/jun01/building.html using APA style

McKenzie, Jamie. (2001, June). Building good new ideas. From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal 10 (9).

Retrieved July 13, 2009 from http://fno.org/jun01/building.html.