Collect this Information for each printed source:
• Author name
• Title of the publication (and the title of the article if it’s a magazine or encyclopedia)
• Date of publication
• The place of publication of a book
• The publishing company of a book
• The volume number of a magazine or printed encyclopedia
• The page number(s)
Collect this information for each Web site:
• Author/editor names (if available)
• Title of the page
• The company or organization who posted the webpage
• The Web address for the page
(the URL) , just the main “root”part
(not the long line of letters/numbers)
• The last date you looked at the page
The Works Cited information for different types of resources are located in different places so you may need to do some detective work to get all of the information for your Works Cited. Try looking in these places:
• The first few pages of a book, encyclopedia or dictionary
• The heading of an article
• The front, second, or editorial page of the newspaper
• The contents page of a journal or magazine
• The header (at the top) or footer (at the bottom) of a web site
• The About or the Contact page of a website
From http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-xprojects
• Author name
• Title of the publication (and the title of the article if it’s a magazine or encyclopedia)
• Date of publication
• The place of publication of a book
• The publishing company of a book
• The volume number of a magazine or printed encyclopedia
• The page number(s)
Collect this information for each Web site:
• Author/editor names (if available)
• Title of the page
• The company or organization who posted the webpage
• The Web address for the page
(the URL) , just the main “root”part
(not the long line of letters/numbers)
• The last date you looked at the page
The Works Cited information for different types of resources are located in different places so you may need to do some detective work to get all of the information for your Works Cited. Try looking in these places:
• The first few pages of a book, encyclopedia or dictionary
• The heading of an article
• The front, second, or editorial page of the newspaper
• The contents page of a journal or magazine
• The header (at the top) or footer (at the bottom) of a web site
• The About or the Contact page of a website
From http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-xprojects