Entry #3: How to cite sources

9There are several ways to cite a source (MLA, Turabian, Chicago). Here you have APA

Citation Style

 Author(s). (Date). Title of Book/ "Title of Article"/ Title of Periodical/ Volume. Pages. Place of Publication. Publisher.

Journal or Magazine Article
 Wilcox, R. V. (1991). "Shifting roles and synthetic women in Star Trek: The Next Generation". Studies in Popular Culture, 13(2), 53-65.

Journal or Magazine Article
Dubeck, L. (1990). "Science fiction aids science teaching." Physics Teacher, 28, 316-318.

Newspaper Article
Di Rado, A. (1995, March 15). "Trekking through college: Classes explore modern society using the world of Star Trek." Los Angeles Times, p. A3.

Article from an Internet Database
Mershon, D. H. (1998, November-December). "Star Trek on the brain: Alien minds, human minds." American Scientist, 86, 585. Retrieved July 29, 1999, from Expanded Academic ASAP database.

Book
Okuda, M., & Okuda, D. (1993). Star Trek Chronology: The History of the Future. New York: Book Pocket Books

Article or Chapter
James, N. E. (1988). "Two sides of paradise: The Eden myth according to Kirk and Spock." In D. Palumbo (Ed.), Spectrum of the fantastic (pp. 219-223). Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Encyclopedia Article
Sturgeon, T. (1995). Science fiction. In The encyclopedia Americana (Vol. 24, pp. 390-392). Danbury, CT: Grolier.

Website
Lynch, T. (1996). DS9 trials and tribble-ations review. Retrieved October 8, 2008, from Psi Phi: Bradley's Science Fiction Club Web site: http://www.bradley.edu/campusorg/psiphi/DS9/ep/ 503r.html

Notes
Arrange the items on your reference list alphabetically by author, interfiling books, articles, etc.
Use only the initials of the authors' first (and middle) names.
If no author is given, start with the title and then the date.
If you are using a typewriter that cannot produce italics, then use underlining instead.
Magazine articles: include the month (and day) as shown under Newspapers.
Websites: if the date the page was created is not given, use (n.d.). adapted from: http://essayinfo.com/citations/index.ph

Example

BOOK: Rolon, Gabriel. 2014. Historias inconscientes. Cd. Autonoma de Buenos Aires. Planeta.

WEB SITE: English language teaching. 2019. Oxford University Press. from: https://elt.oup.com/?cc=global&selLanguage=en

MAGAZINE: The teacher's magazine. April 2014. Bahia Blanca, Buenos aires, Argentina. Grupo Adiba.

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