(Latest revision 01/03/2000)
How to Cite Your Sources of Information
It is very important to good scholarship and intellectual
honesty that you accurately and fully report the sources of
information you employ in preparing your project.
YOUR LIST OF REFERENCES
Make a list of references. In the list, cite all your sources
of information. Include the list as an attachment to your
project handout. Also, place the list in your project web page
where it will be easily found.
The entries in your list of references have to include certain
information:
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An entry for a web page has to report the title of the web
page, the author (if available), and the full URL. Add any
additional information you think may be helpful and/or
necessary.
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An entry for a book has to report the title, author, publisher,
edition number, date of publication, and ISBN.
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An entry for an article in a periodical must report the name of
the editor of the issue of the periodical, the title of the
periodical, the date of publication of the issue of the
periodical, the name(s) of the author(s) of the article (if
available), the title of the article, and the page numbers
where the article is located.
WHEN YOU QUOTE A SOURCE
You may directly quote small passages from your sources.
It is seldom appropriate to quote a long passage from a
source. It is practically never appropriate to closely
paraphrase a long passage in a source.
You must place quotation marks ("") around all
direct quotes. You must also indicate, in close proximity to
the quote itself, which reference you are quoting, and where to
find the quote within the reference. You can use an in-line
comment or a footnote to identify the location of the quote.
For example, if you number the references in your reference
list like this:
[1] Comer, "Computer Networks and Internets, Second Edition,"
Prentice Hall, 1999, ISBN 0-13-083617-6.
[2] Sobell, "Unix System V: a practical guide, Third Edition,"
Benjamin Cummings, 1995, 0-8053-7566-X.
Then you can identify the location of a quote with a simple
in-line comment like this:
As Comer states on page 158 of [1]: "To achieve high bit rates
over conventional twisted pair wiring, ADSL uses an adaptive
technology in which a pair of modems probe many frequencies on
the line between them ..."