Created by Linda Miller

Citing Sources Used for Research

(You'll need this for your Bibliography)

To see a list of citation formats and to see a sample bibliography, click here.

Below are links to a web site called NoodleTools where you can create your citations following examples of citation formats - how to cite a particular type of resource. These citation formats will help you see how to create and write your resources in your Bibliography. You will see an example, then you will create your own - use the information from a resource you are really using in your research. Once you create your citation, click on "submit to view your citation" and the correct way to write it will be displayed on the computer screen. Write that down, or copy it and paste it into a Microsoft Word document, and, before you know it, your Bibliography will be finished! Click on the type of resource you need to cite:

Citing a Book

Citing a CD-ROM

Citing a Personal Web Site

Citing a Professional Web Site

Citing a Magazine Article (print)

Citing an Online Magazine Article

Citing a Newspaper Article (print)

Citing an Online Newspaper Article

Citing an Interview (that you conducted)

Barbara A. Jansen, Librarian/Technology Coordinator, Upper School.St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Austin, TX, has a nice resource for bibliographic citation linked from the Big6 web site for kids.

How to Cite Sources

To see how to rewrite these resources into
proper bibliography format, click here

(Note: These citation formats are intended as a guide for elementary school students.
As such, some formats have been adjusted to simplify this process for beginning researchers.)

Books:

White, Charles D. The Life of the Armadillo. New York: Harper and Row, 1991.

CD-ROM:

Dobson, Robert. "Cotton." Worldbook Multimedia Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. 2000.

Encyclopedia Article (print):

Minch, Edwin W.. "Tarantula." World Book Encyclopedia, 2000, v 19, p 42.

Magazines:

Little, Sharon. "White-tail Deer in Texas." Texas Parks and Wildlife (11 Oct.1999): p 10-14.

Newspaper Article:

Newton, Frank. "Texas Longhorn Cattle." San Antonio Express-News 10 Oct. 2000.

Web Site:

Cotton is King http://www.uscga/crops/index.htm

Online Image:

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Once you have written down all your sources of information, you need to create your bibliography (an alphabetical list, usually at the end of your report or project, of all the books, magazines, encyclopedias, web sites, etc., where you found information to help you in your research). To do this, put all sources in alphabetical order by author (if, as in the case of the web site above, you don't have an author, use the title). Here is how the sources listed above would be rewritten to create a bibliography:

Bibliography

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Last updated: November 19, 2003
Created by Linda Miller, Librarian, Blattman Elementary School, Northside ISD, San Antonio, Texas