Citations and Style

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Contents 1 Atrribution of Information 2 Documentation and Citation of Sources 3 Scholarly Sources 4 Web Sources 5 Styling Footnotes 6 Attribution and Citation of Images

[edit] Atrribution of Information

• Always attribute information you use to the source where you retrieved it.
• The exception is when you retrieve and use information that is common knowledge.

[edit] Documentation and Citation of Sources

There are two required steps in properly supporting student research on this wiki:

• Documentation of claims with supporting evidence with reliable sources
• Citation of sources with proper form.

We are using the form for footnotes preferred by historians, the Chicago/Turabian form.
The Turabian formula includes:

• A footnote number in the text of the document
• Placement of the footnote at the bottom of the page
• Content of the footnote:
  • Author, title, publisher and publication date, page number(s).

[edit] Scholarly Sources

For scholarly sources:

• This syntax: <ref>Charles Tilly, Social Movements, 1768-2004 (Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2004), 14.</ref>
• Looks like: Tilly remarks, "The forms, personnel, and claims of social movements vary and evolve historically."^[1]

[edit] Web Sources

Use the Turabian formula for web sources, too.

• This syntax: <ref>[http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocChicago.html University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center, Chicago/Turabian Documentation], retrieved April 15, 2008.</ref>
• Looks like: When creating Turabian style footnotes, use the University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center's style guide.^[2]
  • Always include the date of retrieval in any web citation.

[edit] Styling Footnotes

To create the footnote list at the bottom of the page:

• This syntax<references/>
• Looks like:
  1. ↑ Charles Tilly, Social Movements, 1768-2004 (Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2004), 14.

• ↑ University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center, Chicago/Turabian Documentation, retrieved April 15, 2008.

[edit] Attribution and Citation of Images

• Caption and date every image to describe its content
• Attribute the image in the caption with this form, "Photo: Wikimedia Commons"
• Link directly to the source of online images.
• Link to the Summit catalog record of images taken from print sources.
• The syntax for this example: [[image:babyuser.jpg|frame|right|Early computer user, May 2006. Photo: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/jayshao/139847619/ Jason Shao]]]