The Broadview Pocket Guide to Citation and Documentation - Third Edition

Documentation and Research - Avoiding Plagiarism-and Choosing When and What to Quote
- Citation and Documentation
- Incorporating Sources - Summarizing
- Paraphrasing
- Quoting Directly
- Formatting Quotations
- Short Prose Quotations
- Long Prose Quotations
- Verse Quotations
- Quotations within Quotations
- Adding to or Deleting from a Quotation
- Using square brackets to add to a quotation
- Using an ellipsis to delete from a quotation
- Integrating Quotations
- Avoiding 'dumped' quotations
- Signal Phrases

MLA Style - About In-Text Citations - in-text citations
- no signal phrase
- placing of in-text citations
- in-text citation when text is in parentheses
- page number unavailable
- one page or less
- multiple authors
- corporate author
- more than one work by the same author cited
- multi-volume works
- two or more authors with the same last name
- indirect quotations
- short poems
- longer poems
- novels or short stories
- plays
- works without page numbers
- sacred texts
- works in an anthology or book of readings
- tweets

- About Works Cited
- MLA Core Elements - Author
- Title of Source
- Title of Container
- Other Contributers
- Version
- Number
- Publisher
- Publication Date
- Location

- MLA Optional Elements - Date Of Original Publication
- City of Publication
- Books in a Series
- Unexpected Type of Work
- Date of Access

- Examples - single author
- two authors
- three of more authors
- corporate author, no author identified
- works with an anonymous author
- two or more works by the same author
- works under a pseudonym
- edited works
- works in translation
- selections from anthologies or collections of readings
- cross-references for works from the same collection or anthology
- multi-volume works
- different editions
- republished sources
- reference work entries
- works with a title in the title
- material from prefaces, introductions
- magazine articles
- newspaper articles
- journal articles
- book reviews
- periodical publications in online databases
- illustrated books
- graphic narratives
- films or television episodes
- online videos
- radio broadcasts
- podcasts
- recorded music
- live performances
- works of visual art
- interviews
- online projects
- e-books
- information databases
- entry in a wiki
- blog post
- e-mail message
- tweet
- comment posted on a webpage

- MLA Style Sample
APA Style - Incorporated Sources in APA Style - Summarizing
- Paraphrasing
- Quoting Directly
- Formating Quotations
- Short Quotations
- Long Quotations
- Quotations within Quotations
- Adding to or Deleteing from a Quotation
- Using square brackets to add to a quotation
- Using an ellipsis to delete from a quotation
- Integrating Quotations
- Avoiding 'dumped' quotations
- Signal Phrases
- About In-text Citations

- in-text citation - no signal phrase (or author not named in a signal phrase)
- titles of stand-alone works
- titles of articles and chapters of books
- placing of in-text citations
- citations when text is in parentheses
- electronic source-page number unavailable
- two or more dates for a work
- multiple authors
- corporate author
- author not given
- date not given
- two or more works in the same citation
- two or more authors with the same last name
- works in a collection of readings or anthology
- indirect source
- private and personal communications

- About References - book with single author
- two to seven authors
- more than seven authors
- corporate author
- works with unknown author
- two or more works by the same author
- edited works
- works with an author and a translator
- selections from anthologies or collections of readings
- electronic version of a print book
- journal articles
- abstract of a journal article
- magazine articles
- newspaper articles
- book reviews
- reference work entries
- films and video recordings
- episodes from television series
- podcasts
- music recordings
- interviews
- documents on a website
- blog posts
- entries in a wiki
- tweets - other Web references - maps or charts
- APA Style Sample
Chicago Style - About Chicago Style - notes
- titles: italics/quotation marks
- multiple references to the same work
- page number or date unavailable
- two or more dates for a work
- two or three authors
- four or more authors
- author unknown/corporate author/government document
- works from a collection of readings or anthology
- indirect source
- two or more works by the same author
- edited works
- translated works
- e-books
- magazine articles
- newspaper articles
- journal articles
- films and video recordings
- television broadcasts
- sound recordings
- interviews and personal communications
- book reviews
- blog posts
- websites
- online videos
- tweets

- Chicago Style Sample
CSE Style - In-text Citation
- List of References
- CSE Style Sample
Sample Essay (MLA Style)Sample Essay (APA Style)