Source Card Practice
On 4’’ x 6’’ index cards, write source cards using the following information. Compare your results with the sample entries given on p. 340 in Writer’s Choice.
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Book with one author |
Sample:
Baldwin, Hanson W. Sea Fights and Shipwrecks: True Tales of the Seven Seas.
New York: Country Life Press, 1955.
1. David Macaulay The Way Things Work published by Houghton in Boston in 1997
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Book with two authors |
Sample:
Kingston, Jeremy, and David Lambert. Catastrophe and Crisis. New York:
Facts on File, 1979.
2. Stephen Pyne and Barry Bunbry wrote The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica . University of Iowa is the publisher located in Iowa City, the year 1993
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Book with editor, no single author |
Sample:
Kuntz, Tom, ed. The Titanic Disaster Hearing: The Official Transcripts
of the 1912 Senate Investigation. New York: Pocket Books, 1998.
3. (no author) Satellite Technologies edited by George McCormick; Helvetica is the publisher; published in Chicago in 1999
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Selection in anthology |
Sample:
Bishop, Mrs. H. D. "The Titanic: From a Lifeboat, 15 April 1912." Eyewitness to History.
Ed. John Carey. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1987. 436-437.
4. Barbara Eddington "Traveling to Santa Fe by Wagon" published by Harcourt in Atlanta in 1995 edited by Steve Pullum, on pages 63-85 in the book Pioneer Spirit
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Encyclopedia article |
Sample:
"Titanic." Encyclopedia Americana. 1998 ed.
5. Bryce B. Nunnelly "Mountain Men" in the 1997 edition of Encyclopedia Americana
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Magazine article |
Sample:
Ballard, Robert D. "How We Found the Titanic." National Geographic Dec. 1985:
696-719.
6. Geoffrey Cowley "Exploiting the Last Frontier" June 20, 1998 issue of Newsweek on pages 57 to 59
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Newspaper article |
Sample:
"New Liner Titanic Hits an Iceberg." New York Times 15 Apr. 1912: A1.
7. John Noble Bradford "At Sea Vent 8,000 Feet Deep, One Fish Didn’t Get Away" in the New York Times Aug. 14, 1998 issue on page B1, skips to B12
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Interview |
Sample:
Watkins, Eliza. Personal interview. 30 October 1999.
8. (no author) Interview with Kenneth Plum. Conducted on March 5, 2000
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Online resource/web site |
Sample:
"Titanic." Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. 5 Mar. 2000
<http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/2/0,5716,74542+1,00.html>.
9. (no author) article "McGraw-Hill Financial Summary" on Dow Jones News Service website accessed on Feb. 29, 2000 at <http://www.dowjones.com/uls.vcu.360>
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CD-ROM |
Sample:
Garzke, William H. Jr. "Titanic." The World Book Multimedia Encyclopedia.
Vers. 1.0. CD-ROM Disc 1. Chicago: World Book, 1999.
10. Jack Wiles wrote "Surrealism" in version 99.2.1 of CD-ROM Disc #1, published in 1999, Compton’s Encyclopedia by Fielding in New York
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Article in reference work, no author, no editor |
Sample:
“Physical Therapists.” Jobs Index. New York: Harcourt, 1998. 23-28.
11. (no author) "Paralegals, Lawyers, and Judges" Printed in 1994 by Greenhaven in Seattle in the reference book Careers for the Future on pages 243 to 251
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Multi-volume work, no author |
Sample:
“Physician.” Medical, Educational, and Service Industries. Vol. 8.
Careers Outlook Handbook. 1999 ed. 81-85.
12. (no author) "Sales Manager" in Volume 3 entitled Business and Commerce Jobs in the reference set Job Digest, 2000 edition on pages 63-65