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