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US History Term Paper: Citation Resources

What are citations?

We use citations to communicate information about our resources with our audience and other researchers. By citing, we're letting the reader know that we're not claiming work that isn't ours. We're also giving them the information they need to locate our sources and to learn more about these ideas should they be interested in learning more.

Citation:

Avoiding Plagiarism - Cite Your Source (n.d.). Retrieved from https://integrity.mit.edu/handbook/citing-your-sources/avoiding-plagiarism-cite-your-source

Quick Guide

Turabian is the ~student~ version of The Chicago Manual of Style and aims to simplify some of the quirks of Chicago. 

Don't forget to indent your footnotes & bibliography

For a deeper dive into Chicago, check out Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL).

Citing Websites

Website Content Without Author

Note

      1. "Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil Slavery: Middle Passage," World History Commons, accessed March 9, 2023, https://worldhistorycommons.org/thoughts-and-sentiments-evil-slavery-middle-passage#doc_transcription.

Bibliography

World History Commons. "Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil Slavery: Middle Passage." accessed March 9, 2023. https://worldhistorycommons.org/thoughts-and-sentiments-evil-slavery-middle-passage#doc_transcription.

 

Website Content With Author

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1. Kate Marijolovic, "What Does a Healthy Campus Actually Look Like? A New Study Offers Ideas," Chronicle of Higher Education, March 13, 2023, https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-does-a-healthy-campus-actually-look-like-a-new-study-offers-ideas.

Bibliography

Marijolovic, Kate. "What Does a Healthy Campus Actually Look Like? A New Study Offers Ideas." Chronicle of Higher Education. March 13, 2023. https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-does-a-healthy-campus-actually-look-like-a-new-study-offers-ideas. 

Citing Primary Sources

Found on Website

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      1. Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser, "Jamaica Intelligence," August 1, 1788, Caribbean Religious Trials, ed. Diana Paton et al., https://www.caribbeanreligioustrials.org/CaseSource/Details/2295.

      2. Médéric-Louis-Elie Moreau de Saint-Méry, "Voodoo," 1797, Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité: Exploring the French Revolution, ed. Jack Censer, and Lynn Hunt, https://revolution.chnm.org/exhibits/show/liberty--equality--fraternity/item/514. 

Bibliography

Moreau de Saint-Méry, Médéric-Louis-Elie. "Voodoo," 1797. Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité: Exploring the French Revolution, ed. Jack Censer,   and Lynn Hunt, https://revolution.chnm.org/exhibits/show/liberty--equality--fraternity/item/514. 

Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser. "Jamaica Intelligence," August 1, 1788. Caribbean Religious Trials, ed. Diana Paton Gemma      Romain, Maarit Forde, Jennifer Kain, Helen McKee, and Suzie Thomas. https://www.caribbeanreligioustrials.org/CaseSource/Details/2295

 

Letter

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      1. Hannah Storer Green to Abigail Smith, 1763-1764, Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-01-02-0011

      2. George Thompson to Blodwen Davies, April 23, 1934, Canadian Mysteries, Library and Archives Canada/Bibliotheque et Archives Canada, https://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/thomson/investigations/

1933-1949/4983en.html. 

Bibliography

Green, Hannah Storer to Abigail Smith, 1763-1764. Founders Online. National             Archives. https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-01-02-0011.

Thompson, George to Blodwen Davies, April 23, 1934. Canadian Mysteries. Library and Archives Canada/Bibliotheque et Archives    Canada. https://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/thomson/investigations/1933-1949/4983en.html. 

Cartoons

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Benjamin Franklin, "Join or Die," illustration, The Pennsylvania Gazette, May 9, 1754, from Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog, https://loc.gov/pictures/item/2002695523/.

Bibliography

Franklin, Benjamin. "Join or Die." Illustration. The Pennsylvania Gazette, May 9, 1754. From Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog. https://loc.gov/pictures/item/2002695523/.

Multimedia Citations!

Podcasts:

Notes

1. Alyssa Jeong Perry et al., "Screams and Silence," March 24, 2021, in Code Switch, produced by NPR, podcast, MP3 audio, https://www.npr.org/2021/03/23/980437156/screams-and-silence.

Shortened Notes

2. Perry et al., "Screams and Silence."

Bibliography Entries

Perry, Alyssa J., Shereen M. Meraji, Gene Demby, Kumari Devarajan, Jess Kung, and Leah Donnella, "Screams and Silence," Produced by NPR. Code Switch. March 24, 2021. Podcast, MP3 audio. https://www.npr.org/2021/03/23/980437156/screams-and-silence.

Style Guide Cheat Sheet

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Citing Scholarly Articles

Single Author

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      1. Gloria Ladson-Billings, "Pushing Past the Achievement Gap: An Essay on the Language of Deficit," in "Celebrating the Legacy of 'The Journal': 75 Years of Facilitating Excellence in Black Education," special issue, Journal of Negro Education 76, no. 3 (Summer 2007): 319, https://www.jstor.org/stable/40034574. 

      2. Gloria Ladson-Billings, "Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy,"  American Educational Research Association 32, no. 3 (Autumn 1995): 468, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1163320.

Bibliography

Ladson-Billings, Gloria. "Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy." American Educational Research Association 32, no. 3 (Autumn 1995): 465-491.

Ladson-Billings, Gloria. "Pushing Past the Achievement Gap: An Essay on the Language of Deficit." In "Celebrating the Legacy of 'The Journal': 75 Years of Facilitating Excellence in Black Education." Special issue, Journal of Negro Education 76, no. 3 (Summer 2007): 316-323. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40034574. 

Two - Three Authors

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      1. Jin Soo Chung and Delia Neuman, "High School Students' Information Seeking and Use for Class Projects," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58, no. 10 (June 2007): 1505, https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.20637

      2. Moira Cachia, Siobhan Lyman, and Rosemary Stock, "Academic Success: Is It Just About the Grades?" Higher Education Pedagogies 3, no. 1 (October 2018): 435, https://doi.org/10.1080/23752696.2018.1462096. 

Bibliography

Cachia, Moira, Siobhan Lyman, and Rosemary Stock. "Academic Success: Is It Just About the Grades?" Higher Education Pedagogies 3, no.1 (October 2018): 434-439.  https://doi.org/10.1080/23752696.2018.1462096. 

Chung, Jin Soo, and Delia Neuman. "High School Students' Information Seeking and Use for Class Projects." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58, no. 10 (June 2007): 1503-1517. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.20637.

Four or More Authors

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      1. Daegon Cho, et al., "Television Singing Competitions Create Stars? Empirical Evidence from the Digital Music Chart in South Korea," Journal of Cultural Economics 43, no. 1 (March 2019): 15, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10824-018-9327-3.

      2. Lorena M. Salto, et al., "Underrepresented Minority High School and College Students Report STEM-Pipeline Sustaining Gains After Participating in the Loma Linda University Summer Health Disparities Research Program," PLoS ONE 9, no. 9 (September 2014), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0108497.

Bibliography

Cho, Daegon, Seok Ho Lee, Yeawon Yoo, and Hyo-Youn Chu. "Television Singing Competitions Create Stars? Empirical Evidence from the Digital Music Chart in South Korea." Journal of Cultural Economics 43, no. 1 (March 2019): 1-20, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10824-018-9327-3.

Salto, Lorena M., Matt L. Riggs, Daisy Delgado De Leon, Carlos A. Cassiano, and Marino De Leon. "Underrepresented Minority High School and College Students Report STEM-Pipeline Sustaining Gains After Participating in the Loma Linda University Summer Health Disparities Research Program." PLoS ONE 9, no. 9 (September 2014), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0108497.

Citing News

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      1. Allyson Chiu, "How California is Using Recent Floods to Prepare for Future Drought," Washington Post, March 15, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/03/15/california-groundwater-recharge-drought/.

      2. Will, George F., "Expensively Credentialed, Negligibly Educated Stanford Brats Thew a Tantrum," Washington Post, opinion, March 15, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/15/stanford-law-school-protest-kyle-duncan-federalist/.

3. Brian X. Chen, Nico Grant, and Karen Weise, "How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race," New York Times, March 15, 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/15/technology/siri-alexa-google-assistant-artificial-intelligence.html. 

Bibliography

Chen, Brian X., Nico Grant, and Karen Weise. "How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race." New York Times, March 15, 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/15/technology/siri-alexa-google-assistant-artificial-intelligence.html.

Chiu, Allyson. "How California is Using Recent Floods to Prepare for Future Drought." Washington Post, March 15, 2023. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/03/15/california-groundwater-recharge-drought/.

Will, George F. "Expensively Credentialed, Negligibly Educated Stanford Brats Thew a Tantrum." Washington Post, opinion, March 15, 2023. Expensively Credentialed, Negligibly Educated Stanford Brats Thew a Tantrum.