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RESEARCH - USING REFERENCES WITHIN A PAPER
When you are writing a paper using help from other sources (books, magazines, internet, etc.), you should give the author of that source credit for the information - this term is known as a "reference citation." You can give the author credit in two ways:
A. PARAPHRASING - WRITING the research information IN YOUR OWN WORDS
B. DIRECT QUOTE – Using the author’s EXACT WORDS
If you are PARAPHRASING, you write the paragraph IN YOUR OWN WORDS and list the author’s last name and the copyright date at the end of the paragraph. If there is not an author given for a reference, you will list the title of the reference and the copyright date at the end of the paragraph.
Use the table below for the reference citations within your REVIEW OF LITERATURE
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PARAPHRASING
Reference Information
(TO BE TYPED AT THE END OF EACH PARAGRAPH) |
(Author or Title, Copyright Date) |
Reference with an Author
(not from the internet) |
(Jones, 2004) |
Reference with NO Author
(not from the internet) |
(Physics of Motion, 2004) |
| Internet Reference with an Author |
(Doe, 1999 [Online]) |
| Internet Reference with No Author |
(Motion, 1999 [Online]) |
| CD ROM Reference with an Author |
(Jones, 2004 [CD-ROM]) |
| CD ROM Reference with No Author |
(Physics of Motion, 2004[CD-ROM]) |
If you are using a DIRECT QUOTE use the author’s name (or title) and quotation marks in the paper.
For example:
According to Jones (2004), “The motion of an object can be changed if a force acts upon the object.”
According to Physics in Motion (2004), “The motion of an object can be changed if a force acts upon it.”
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