Report References and Citations

References

For this class you can put information for each reference in the following order. If you don't have any particular piece of information, leave it out and go to the next.

  1. Author's last name, first name.  (Put a period after the author's first name. If you have two or more authors check the example below.)
     

  2. "Article Title."  (Put quotation marks around the article title--with the period before the ending quotation mark. Capitalize first letters of all words except for articles and prepositions.)
     

  3. Name of Source. (Underlined with a period after the last word. If you have identifying references to the source such as Volume, Edition, or Brief, they should not be underlined--with a comma following the name and a period following the last reference to the name--
           example:   Exploring Careers in Construction, Volume 3.
     

  4. City of publication:  (Put city only, not the state--followed by a colon.)
     

  5. Complete name of publisher, date of publication.
     

  6. Page numbers

 

Examples:

One author
Campbell, Joseph. Heroic Cycles. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1978.

More than one author
 Campbell, Joseph, Elaine Mann, and Tom York. Heroes, Myths, and Mythmaking. New
          York: Harper Collins, 1982.

WOIS   (Highlighted information is what will be unique for your article)
"Accountant." WOIS/The Career Information System. Olympia:  Washington Occupational
           Information System, 2005.   www.wois.org

Chronicle Guidance Publications  (Highlighted information is what will be unique for your article)
"Automobile Mechanic." Chronicle Guidance Publications, Brief 324.  Moravia: Chronicle
           Guidance Publications, Inc., 2003.

Occupational Outlook Handbook
"Article Title." Occupational Outlook Handbook.   U.S. Department of Labor Statistics. Date
           Information Last Updated: 2005. Date Site Accessed Online: December 13, 2006.

Wage and outlook handout from Mrs Gilmore
"The U.S.Job Market--2004 to 2014." Dalstrom and Company, Inc., 2006.

Interview (Person's last name, first. Telephone interview, date of interview.)--If the interview was in person instead of over the telephone, then you put In-person interview instead of Telephone interview.

           Smith, Thomas. Telephone interview, December 9, 2005.
           Smith, Thomas. In-person interview, December 9, 2005.

For more specific and technically correct examples go to Works Cited or Reference Page  for Reports

 

Citations

Any time you want to include a citation to show the source of information put the source in parentheses just after your facts within the sentence or at the end of the sentence just before the period.

Examples:

Source with an author--(Last name of author, date, page)--leave page out if you don't have it.
      (Smith, 2002, 112-113)

Source without an author--(Name of source, date of publication, page)--underline the name of the source.
      (WOIS/The Career Information System, 2004)

Interview--(Last name, date of interview)
     (Smith, December 9, 2005)