Team Recommendation Report
Reference Page
Reference Page
The team's Reference Page will include every source you quote from, paraphrase, name, or borrow data from at any point in the report--including the Review of Literature and Appendices.
In a paper version of the Recommendation Report, the References page will come after the Review of Literature and prior to the Appendices.
Sections below need bolded and highlighted as needed
A Quick Note About:
Citations on the Reference Page.
In W231, the References page follows APA conventions to format citations.
It is important to understand the logic of APA citations:
All citation strategies, including APA, are focusing on origins. How did this publication come into the world? APA tracks the origin of the material from the author and year of publication to the title the author gave the material, to the source who published the material.
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APA is author and date focused: the author and date appear at the front of citations
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APA uses variance in capitalizations and font style to identify different types of publications:
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Article titles (in a magazine, newspaper, or online format), Webpage titles (the heading at the top of a web page-- NOT the website title), and Dissertation titles appear in all lower case (except for the first word and proper nouns)
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APA uses italics to identify publication titles: Publication Titles (Magazines, Newspapers, Websites, Films, Books, and more) all use standard capitalization rules for titles AND are italicized
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APA Style is supported by the American Psychological Association and provides helpful links to citation tools and the APA Publication Manual--the book with every APA citation factoid you can imagine.
EXAMPLE: Sample Reference Page From Purdue OWL with print-based journal articles
References
Cummings, J. N., Butler, B., & Kraut, R. (2002). The quality of online social relationships.
mmm Communications of the ACM, 45(7), 103-108.
Hu, Y., Wood, J. F., Smith, V., & Westbrook, N. (2004). Friendships through IM: Examining the
mmm relationship between instant messaging and intimacy. Journal of Computer-Mediated mmm mmm
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mmmCommunication, 10, 38-48.
Tidwell, L. C., & Walther, J. B. (2002). Computer-mediated communication effects on disclosure,
mmm impressions, and interpersonal evaluations: Getting to know one another a bit at a time. Human
mmm Communication Research, 28, 317-348.
A Quick Note About:
Online Citation Generators.
Choose Citation Generators Wisely.
Citation generators create citations for you using a url or other citation details the database algorithms have access to. Use citations generators wisely. They are never 100% accurate.
The best citation generators are available through the IUPUI Databases.
"Databases, like EBSCO Academic Search Premier and ProQuest Central, are multidisciplinary and allow you to find articles from different subject areas" (IUPUI Library Website, 2019). Both EBSCO and ProQuest include citation generators under "cite" options.
The most accurate citation generator available on the internet is KnightCite.
Even with these advanced algorithms, the generator tools make mistakes--most frequently they will put information in all caps that should follow traditional capitalization rules. But, KnightCite helps you avoid this. For KnightCite, you type information into prompts to get the best format possible with an online generator.
Remember that not citing a source and not clearly stating when you borrow words or ideas is plagiarism. Plagiarism is cheating. Professionals and college students alike get in trouble when they don't cite sources and ideas. For a minute of inspiration on citing watch a short video by uAlbertaDoS (2013) from the U and A Library: Cite like an adult.
Citation Generators:
Support Tools
There are a lot of support tools available as you compose the References section.
Purdue OWL
Use the Purdue Online Writing Lab [OWL] for APA support. As the most visited writing lab, they provide helpful citation support for both APA and MLA formats.
Citing Visuals You Borrow from the Internet.
Student Question
Do we need to cite every image we include in our wix and where should those references go?
Response
Hello Shara:
-You do not need to cite images you borrow from WIX on the WIX.
-You do not need to cite images, charts, or graphs that you and other team members generate, unless you want your name (as an individual) associated with the visual.
-You do need to cite images that you borrow from other places.
Protocol for citing photos gets dicey because many of the internet pages where photos appear also borrowed the photos from other places. However, if you see an attribution below a photo, it does need a formal citation in the References as well as a parenthetical citation. Below the image, you would place the first word from the Reference entry and the year like other citations.
An acceptable option is to make the visual a hyperlink to its place of origin on the internet -AND- have a citation on the References.
For details on Reference entries, visit State College Florida's Library Page.
Because image "borrowing" on the internet has become ubiquitous, the rules are in flux. This is not good news for professional photographers.
Let me know if you have other questions.
All Best!
Instructor
