Citation Workshops - October 27-29, 2015

Do you find that citing sources for your papers and presentations can be a challenge?  Feel free to drop in for one of the Library's open workshops on citing.  They will be held on three different dates at the end of October, and will cover MLA (Modern Language Association), APA (American Psychological Association), and University of Chicago styles.

Do you have an example of a source that you're having trouble citing?  Please bring it along with you, and we will work through it together!

Dates & Times:

Tues., Oct. 27, 2015 - 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Wed. Oct. 28, 2015 - 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Thurs. Oct. 29, 2015 - 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Location:

Library Instruction Center on 3rd Floor

Citation Workshops - October 27-29, 2015

Do you find that citing sources for your papers and presentations can be a challenge?  Feel free to drop in for one of the Library's open workshops on citing.  They will be held on three different dates at the end of October, and will cover MLA (Modern Language Association), APA (American Psychological Association), and University of Chicago styles.

Do you have an example of a source that you're having trouble citing?  Please bring it along with you, and we will work through it together!

Dates & Times:

Tues., Oct. 27, 2015 - 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Wed. Oct. 28, 2015 - 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Thurs. Oct. 29, 2015 - 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Location:

Library Instruction Center on 3rd Floor

Workshop Flyer

Featured Online Resource: bibme

This week’s Featured Online Resource is bibme (http://www.bibme.org/). Bibme allows users to create citations for books, magazine, newspapers, websites, journal articles, films, interviews, radio/tv shows, encyclopedia, or photograph. You can get citation information for MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian. You can then copy and paste the citation into your word document. Besides your work cited page, bibme will also provide information about how to cite within your paper.

 Every week, the Ort Library brings you a new and outstanding resource from the Web or from one of the library's databases. To get an archive of all FOR entries, click here. Also, you can suggest a website that provides well-organized access to useful info.

Featured Online Resource: Purdue Online Writing Lab

This week’s Featured Online Resource is the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL at Purdue).  OWL at Purdue is a great online resource to get help with APA, MLA, and Chicago citation styles.  The site provides examples of how to cite within the body of your paper and create the references/bibliography/works cited page.  Each citation style also provides a sample paper highlighting page format, in-text citation format, and bibliography format.  Owl at Purdue also provides information on conducting primary research and evaluating sources that you have found.

The Ort Library also offers additional links for help with citation formatting.  It can be found here: http://www.frostburg.edu/lewis-ort-library/style/.

Every week, the Ort Library brings you a new and outstanding resource from the Web or from one of the library's databases. To get an archive of all FOR entries, click here. Also, you can suggest a website that provides well-organized access to useful info.

Tweet Citing 101

A lot of valuable information comes to us nowadays in tweets, but how do you cite a tweet in your academic paper? Well, the MLA (Modern Languages Association) has just released the official way to cite tweets in MLA format. Learn more about it at Edudemic.com!

FOR for the week of Jan. 31

Featured Online Resource
Jan. 31, 2011

Every week, the Ort Library brings you a new and outstanding resource from the Web or from one of the library's databases. To get an archive of all FOR entries, click here. Also, you can suggest a website that provides well-organized access to useful info.

THIS WEEK'S Featured Online Resource

WebCite

As this blog hopefully demonstrates, there is a vast amount of great information available on the Internet, some of which you might even need to cite in a research paper or assignment. The problem is that some websites can disappear without warning thus rendering your citation of that website useless. Luckily, WebCite is here to help.

WebCite is an archiving system for webreferences (cited webpages and websites), which can be used by authors, editors, and publishers of scholarly papers and books, to ensure that cited webmaterial will remain available to readers in the future. A WebCite reference is an archived webcitation, and rather than linking to the live website (which can and probably will disappear in the future), authors will link to the archived WebCite copy on webcitation.org.

This service is completely free, doesn't require you to make an account and takes about 30 seconds. Simply plug the URL you want to cite into the archiving service, along with any metadata (author's name, journal title, year, etc) you wish to include, and WebCite will provide you with an archived URL and a formatted citation.