Step 3: Cite Your Sources (Bibliography)
- Step 3: Cite Your Sources (Bibliography)
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If you plan to write a report, list all your sources on a BIBLIOGRAPHY page. The list of sources is
sometimes called "Works Cited."
- Use one of these formats (if any item is not known, just skip it and go on to the next one).
- For Books: Author's Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. City:
Publishing company, date.
- Articles: Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article."
Magazine. Publication date: volume: page number.
- Websites: Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article."
Publication date: page. Site owner. Date of visit. <Website Address>
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Spacedog: Copying information without giving credit to the author is called PLAGIARISM. And it's the same as stealing!
- A Sample Bibliography:
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Caidin, Martin. The Astronauts. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1961.
Marko, Katherine M. Animals in Orbit: Monkeynauts and Other Pioneers in Space. New York: Franklin Watts, 1991.
"U.S. Widens Its Lead in Space Race." U.S. News and World Reports. 13 Feb 1961: 46.
"The Right Stuff". The Washington Post. 21 Jan 1983, A16.
"Laika, the first dog in space." Starchild, a service of NASA. 4 Apr 2002. <http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/space_level2/laika.html>
- Spacedog: Do you know the meanings of these words?