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Instructions for Students: Citing Your Sources
- Please use the following format to cite your sources: ☐APA ☐MLA
- Required:
☐In-Text Citation – OR - ☐Footnotes for your page references.
☐Works Cited (MLA) – OR - ☐References (APA)
- You ☐may ☐may NOT use Wikipedia.com as a source for this project.
- Use the following source(s) in your project:
☐Textbook ☐Book ☐Web ☐Journal ☐Primary Resource
☐Multi-media (art, music, video) ☐Interview ☐ Other:
- Include full website address in your MLA citation: ☐Include ☐Do not include
- Cite multimedia such as art, photos or videos: ☐Cite source ☐Do not cite
- You do not have to cite common knowledge.
Examples of common knowledge for this course are:
How to Cite Sources:
- If you use an exact quote, you must use quotation marks around it.
If you paraphrase information (put in your own words), you don’t need quotation marks.
- In either case, you must include an in-text citation, endnote or footnote indicating the source.
- In either case, you must include the source in Works Cited (MLA) or References (APA).
- Please refer to the Research Guide available at http://bit.ly/T6kqjK for citation help or
go to http://tiferes.pbworks.com under Student Resources > Citing Sources.
- Please include the full web-site address of on-line resources so that your teacher can find it.
That means that you don’t write www.tiferes.ca (unless it is on the home page) but www.tiferes.ca/gallery/art11.htm.
- If you are not certain whether you need to cite a source (for example, common knowledge), please consult your teacher.
- You may use www.citationmachine.net or www.easybib.com to help format your courses.
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