Most Sources That You Will Use Will Follow This Format

Name: ______Date: ______Period: ______

How to create Source Cards  Before you take notes from a source, record information about the source.  Keeping track of your sources is essential for giving credit within your paper and for preparing the Works Cited list that accompanies your final document.  Follow the formulas below. Form and punctuation are very important!  If you can’t find some of the required information, just move on to the next piece.  Number each source card in the order you find it, in the upper right hand corner of the card. You will use this number when you create your note cards.

Electronic Sources: Document from a Web Site Author. “Title of Web Page.” Title of the Site. Editor. Date and/or Version Number. Name of Sponsoring Institution. Date of Access . Sherman, Chris. “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About URL.” SearchEngineWatch. Ed. Danny Sullivan. 24 Aug. 2007. 4 Sept. 2004 . Electronic Sources: Entire Internet Site Title of the Site. Editor. Date and/or Version Number. Name of Sponsoring Institution. Date of Access . Encyclopedia Mythica. 2004. 13 May 2004 .

Personal Interview: Interviewee late name, Interviewee first name. Personal interview. Date of interview. Purdue, Pete. Personal interview. 1 Dec. 2000.

Magazine or periodical article: Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. “Title of Article.” Title of Magazine or Periodical. Day Month Year: pages. Poniewozik, James. “TV Makes a Too-Close Call.” Time. 20 Nov. 2000: 70-71. An article in an encyclopedia: Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. “Title of Article.” Title of Encyclopedia. Vol. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year. “Allegory.” The World Book Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. Chicago: World Book Inc., 2007. Book: Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Byatt, A.S. Babel Tower. New York: Random House, 1996. Book with more than one author: Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn, 2000. Wysocki, Anne Frances, et al. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2004. Electronic Sources: EBSCOhost or Online Database: Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. “Title of Article.” Title of Journal Volume.Issue (Year): Pages. EBSCOhost. Place where the researcher visited the site. Date of Access. . Nelson, Roxanne. “Smoking Outside Still Causes Second-Hand Smoke Exposure to Children.” Lancet 359 (2002): 675. EBSCOhost. Southside High School Library, AR. 8 May 2011 .