“Proper way to Cite Sources for Academic Papers”
A Feasibility Study
Presented to the Faculty of
College of Engineering, Architecture and Fine Arts
Batangas State University
Alangilan, Batangas
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for
CE – 414 Methods of Research for CE
Villena, Ervil John D.
CE-4103
12-92361
November 2015
Why cite the sources used in a research paper? Citing sources used in a research paper is important. It will help you support your argument and give based on fact basis to your work. It will also help the readers to find the materials you consulted. But the most important reason why it is important to cite sources in a research paper is to avoid plagiarism.
What is plagiarism? Plagiarism
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Harvard Referencing: Humanities
Etc. (University of Pittsburgh, 2015) Citation also depends on what type of sources you used. This includes book, journal, newspaper, website, movie, etc. You can do quotations or paraphrasing.
Quoting of a material is taking the exact words from the original and citing the author. It is not advisable to do quotations often. It is said that only 10% of the final paper should be in quotations. For examples:
In her book, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling said, “The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.”
John F. Kennedy once said, “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie
– deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of the thought.” Paraphrasing is restating the original work in your own words but know that
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Josephine M. Luna et al., Skill Builders for English Proficiency (Phoenix Publishing House, Inc., 2011), 66-67. The second one is the Author/Date Style. This style requires the use of parenthetical reference with general form of (Author’s Last Name Year of Publication,
Page #) as well as the reference list. (Trinity University, 2015) Example: (Luna et al. 2011, 66-67)
Harvard Style Harvard style is also known as the author-date system. Parenthetical reference is used and a full reference list is found at the end of the article. Example: (Santos and Danac 2006, 238-239)
Reference List Reference list is the alphabetical list of all the sources used in the article. It should be placed at the end of the article in a separate page.
Books Author (surname, initials) Year of publication, Title of the book, Edition, Publisher, Place of publication. (St. Aloysius College)
Example:
Lee, H 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird, Grand Central Publishing, New York.
Journal/Magazine Author (surname, initials) Year of publication, ‘Title of article’, Title of Magazine, Volume number, Issue number, Page number. (St. Aloysius College)
Example:
Hadjimatheou, C 2015, ‘Why Greeks are exhuming their parents’, BBC
NEWS,