Citing Sources (Bibliography)

Online Bibliographic Tools

Use any of the tools below to create a bibliography and correctly cite your sources. Grade 10 - 12 students are instructed on how to use to use NoodleTools. However, the skills learned for each are transferable to any online bibliographic tool (a few of which are also listed below).

NoodleTools

Citefast

Checklist:
What do I need to include in a Work Cited or Bibliography?

Citing a Digital Image

Example:
Work Cited

Citing a Personal Interview

Citing Tweets

Citing YouTube

Citing Images

MLA Documentation Style

Purdue OWL - MLA style Guide

Visit the Purdue University "MLA Formatting and Style Guide" website for information on questions you have about citing sources.

Seneca Library

Visit this site for information and examples on citing Images, Charts, Graphs, Maps & Tables in MLA 8.

Source: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/09/

Annotations

Link to Purdue for tips on creating annotations.

Examples of annotated bibliographies can be found here.

A sample of an MLA annotated bibliography can be found here.

Source: owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/common_writing_assignments/annotated_bibliographies/annotated_bibliography_samples.html

Parenthetical References

1. When you incorporate another’s words, facts or ideas, whether in a direct quotation or by paraphrasing, you need to insert a brief parenthetical acknowledgement. Give the author’s last name and the page(s) of the source. If the author’s name appears in the sentence, you may omit it from the parenthetical citation.

Medieval Europe was a place of “raids, pillages, slavery, and extortion” (Townsend 10).
Townsend notes that medieval Europe was a place of “raids, pillages, slavery, and extortion” (10).
Townsend described medieval Europe as a violent and brutal place (10).

“Place the parenthetical reference where a pause would naturally occur (preferably at the end of a sentence), as near as possible to the materials documented” (MLA Handbook 217).

2. For web resources, unless the pages or paragraphs are numbered, use only the author’s last name. If no author is indicated, use the first word of the title.

3. “If you borrow more than once from the same source within a single paragraph and no borrowing from another source intervenes, you may give a single parenthetical reference after the last borrowing” (MLA Handbook 218).

4. In citing classic verse, plays and poems, omit page numbers and cite by division (act, scene, canto, book, part) and line, with periods separating the various numbers. Titles of famous works are often abbreviated (Ham. 1.5.35-37).

Source: http://library.ok.ubc.ca/files/2014/08/MLA-Guide-Fall-2013.pdf