Forms of Citation and Bibliography
Acceptable in Ms. Irwin's "History of the American West" Class
For essays and research papers in my class (check with your other instructors for their papers), you may use a standard form of citation (Turabian, Chicago, etc.) to cite the sources you use in your essays.
You
may also use a shorthand form of citation, as in the following example:
Blah blah blah. (Hine, p. 45.)
To cite the course website, cite the whole url. For example:
Blah blah blah. (http://www.irwinator.com/126/doc06.htm)
Please note that you must cite your source(s) when making direct quotes (i.e., lifting text out of a book verbatim) AND when you quoting indirectly (i.e., summarizing or rephrasing someone else's work). Not to do so is plagiarism, the cardinal sin of all writing. The only time you don't have to cite some one else is when you are expressing your own interpretation or opinion.
Footnote/Endnote format:
1st citation:
Joe-Bob Smith, No, Wait, My Book Is Much More Important, and Bucky Jones Is A Big Fat Dumbhead (San Diego: Pontification Press, 1996), p. 2.
Subsequent citations to same book:
Smith, No, Wait, p. 3.
Use "Ibid, p. 4" if your next citation is to exactly the same book as the previous citation. Use "Ibid" alone if your next citation is to the same book AND exactly the same page.