How to cite sources

1. CITE THOSE SOURCES
Give Credit….
Where Credit is Due

2. Why Cite the Sources
If you don’t tell where you got your information, you
are plagiarizing (STEALING)
 Essentially, it is like you are lying to your reader. You have
used someone else’s ideas without telling your reader where
you took it from.
 How can I avoid plagiarism?
 Basically, any idea or fact that you received from a source needs to
be cited. Any idea or fact that is common knowledge does not need
to be cited.

3. Works Cited Page
 What is a “Works Cited” Page? A “Works Cited” page is the name
that MLA gives to a bibliography. It is a listing of all of the sources
you cited in the body of your paper. Here are a few things to keep
in mind about the “Works Cited” page:
 The “Works Cited” page is always going to be the last page of your essay or
report. You should type the words “Works Cited” and center it on the page.
 Each entry reads like one long sentence. What this means is that it does
not matter where the second line begins in an entry; it begins on the second
line only because you ran out of room on the first line.
 The second and subsequent lines are always indented five spaces.
 The sources are listed alphabetically by the first word or name of the
entry. This first word or name should be what you use in your parenthetical
citation.

4. Books in the Library
Open the BCJH Catalog
Search for your research subject

5. Citing the Book
Click on the title of the
book—all the info you need
is there (This can also be
found on the back of the Title
page of the book.)
Author---Rebecca Love
Fishkin
Title----Heroes of the
Holocaust
Publisher-----Compass
Point Books
Publishing City---Mankata,
MN
Copyright Date----2011

6. When you click on the subjects, you may find
more books to help

7. Help on the BCJH Library Website
Go to the BCJH
Library website:
 To access today’s
powerpoint
 Example of Works Cited
Page
 To get correct citations
for you Works Cited
page

8. Use a citation maker

9. Book Information

10. Works Cited Information-----
COPY AND PASTE IT!!!!!!!!!!!

11. Works Cited
Fishkin, Rebecca. Heroes of the Holocaust. Mankato,
MN: Compass Point Books, 2011. 55-57. Print.

12. Find your information on the web, but get the web
page information before leaving the page
W
eb
address
(U
RL)
Title of Article
Title of W
ebsite

13. Check the bottom of the web page
CopyrightDate
Author

14. Web Page

15. Enter the web page information

16. Copy & Paste into the Works Cited Page!!!

17. Works Cited
Fishkin, Rebecca. Heroes of the Holocust. Mankato, MN:
Compass Point Books, 2011. 55-57. Print.
Webb, Chris. "Oskar Shindler." Holocaust Education &
Archive Research Team. H.E.A.R.T., 2007. Web. 9 Apr
2012.
<http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/survivor/sc
hindler.html>.

18. Remember…….
Always cite your sources!!! Don’t
plagiarize!!!
Always get the information you
need before turning in the book or
leaving the web page.
There is always help on the Library
web page.