Entry #3 How to cite sources.

There are several ways to cite a source (MLA, Turabian, Chicago). Here you have APA Citation Style

Author(s). (Date). Title of Book/ "Title of Article"/ Title of Periodical/ Volume. Pages. Place of Publication. Publisher.

Journal or Magazine Article

Wilcox, R. V. (1991). "Shifting roles and synthetic women in Star Trek: The NextGeneration". Studies in Popular Culture, 13(2), 53-65.

Journal or Magazine Article

Dubeck, L. (1990). "Science fiction aids science teaching." Physics Teacher, 28, 316-318.

Newspaper Article

Di Rado, A. (1995, March 15). "Trekking through college: Classes explore modern society using the world of Star Trek." Los Angeles Times, p. A3.

Article from an Internet Database

Mershon, D. H. (1998, November-December). "Star Trek on the brain: Alien minds, human minds." American Scientist, 86, 585. Retrieved July 29, 1999, from Expanded Academic ASAP database.

Book

Okuda, M., &; Okuda, D. (1993). Star Trek Chronology: The History of the Future. New York: Book Pocket Books

Article or Chapter

James, N. E. (1988). "Two Sides of Paradise: The Eden Myth according to Kirk and Spock," in D. Palumbo (Ed.), Spectrum of the fantastic (pp. 219-223). Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Encyclopedia Article

Sturgeon, T. (1995). Science fiction, in The Encyclopedia Americana (Vol. 24, pp. 390-392). Danbury, CT: Grolier.

Website

Lynch, T. (1996). DS9 trials and tribble-actions review. Retrieved from Psi Phi: Bradley's Science Fiction Club. Last visited: May 15th, 2020. Available at: http://www.bradley.edu/campusorg/psiphi/DS9/ep/ 503r.html

Notes

• Arrange the items on your reference list alphabetically by author, interfiling books, articles, etc.
• Use only the initials of the authors' first (and middle) names.
• If no author is given, start with the title and then the date.
• Magazine articles: include the month (and day) as shown under Newspapers.
• Websites: if the date the page was created is not given, use (n.d.).
  
                                                      adapted from: http://essayinfo.com/citations/index.php

copy and paste this information onto your portfolio take 4 or 5 samples of DIFFERENT SOURCES (BOOKS, MAGAZINES, WEBSITES, etc) write down the bibliographical data according to the text above

Examples:

Artusi, N.( 2020, January 18th)Ausencia de sueño de una noche de verano: Un libero indaga por que  no podemos dormir. La Nación, p. 11.

Bazzan, G. ( 2020, 14th May). " Cepo dolar: en Mayo los ahorristas habrian comprado US$ 560 millions, más del doble que en Abril". Clarin, p. 36. 

Galeano, E. ( 1998). Patas Arriba. Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Catálogos.

Packer, L. (2005). TIC related school problems. Last visited May 20th, 2020. Available at: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16204421/

Wilde, O. (2000). The plays of Oscar Wilde. London. Wordsworth Editions. 

Metacognitive analysis

As teachers, we have to be responsible for the information we use in our work, that is why it is really important to know how to cite sources, not only because of the responsibility to credit our research but to avoid plagiarism in words and ideas used by other authors. 

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