1. Your Research Paper Format, Citations, and Plagiarism1

2. Formatting: General Rules NO Cover Sheet 1 Margins on all pages 12 pt. Type, Times New Roman Font Double-space NO Extra Spaces between Paragraphs NO Bibliography or Works Cited Page Citations as Numbered Footnotes or Endnotes NOT as Parenthetical References2 3. Formatting: Title and Author Title 12 pt, Times New Roman Centered 1 from top of first page Author Centered, Double-spaced below Title by Your Name Here NO Nom de plume3 4. Formatting: Body Begins after Author Line Indent paragraphs inch NO extra space between paragraphs Number the pages Your option to number page 1 or not4 5. 115 6. Citations Why Citations? Give Credit For Information AND Quotations Demonstrate Your Familiarity With The Sources Demonstrates Your Integrity and Authority Allows Others to Reproduce Your Results So . . . Your citations have to take others to EXACTLYwhere you got your information6 7. Different Kinds of Citations Footnotes go at the BOTTOM of each PAGE Endnotes go at the END of the PAPER This is NOT a Works Cited page Numbers are consecutive in the text and the notes Each citation in text (designated w/ superscriptnumber) refers to a distinct source or list of sources.7 8. Footnotes8 9. Endnotes9 10. Inserting A Footnote in Word 2007 Click ReferenceClick Insert Footnote Program will insert number at Cursor Take you to bottom of page Begin typing citation10 11. Citation Elements: Book Elements: Author (followed by comma) Book Title (Italicized, no comma) Publication Information (enclosed in parentheses) Place (followed by colon) Publisher Name (followed by comma) Date (close parentheses, followed by comma) Page Numbers (followed by period) Example: 1Paul11Casdorf, Let the Good Times Roll: Life At Home in American During World War II (New York: Paragon House, 1989), 78-79, 136-37. 12. Citation Element: Journal Article Elements Author (comma) Article Title (in quotation marks, comma before last) Journal Title (Italicized, NO comma after) Journal Volume (comma after) Issue Number (preceded by no.) Issue Date (in parentheses, followed by colon) Page Number(s) (followed by period) Example 212William Warren Rogers, Jr., For The Destruction of Radicalism: A Reconstruction Case Study, The Alabama Review 62, no. 3 (July 2009): 193, 197. 13. Citation Elements: Websites Elements Author or Owner (comma) Article Title (in quotation marks, comma inside last) Site Title (followed by comma) URL Date Accessed (in parentheses, with accessed, followed by period) Example 3KheelCenter of Cornell University and UNITE!, Introduction, The Triangle Factory Fire, http:// www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/narrative1.html (accessed June 12, 2007).13 14. When you use a source more than once Dont make full citations in every note Subsequent Citations Short Title Authors Last Name (comma) Shortened Title (italicized, followed by comma) Page Numbers (period) Ibid. (include the periodits an abbreviation) Use when a citation is exactly the same as the immediate preceding citation Add page numbers if different14 15. Examples of Citations, incl. Subsequents 1PaulCasdorph, Let the Good Times Roll: Life at Home in America During World War II (New York: Paragon House, 1998), 78-79. 2Richard Lingman, Dont You Know Theres A War On? The American Homefront, 1941-1945 (New York: G. P. Putmans Sons, 1970), 234. 3Casdorph, Let the Good Times Roll, 136-37. 4Ibid., 140. [Profs Comment: Casdorph, 3 pages later] 5Lingman, Dont You Know Theres A War On?, 235.15 16. Plagiarism Severe violation of Academic Honesty Passing off someone elses work as your own,even inadvertently What it is . . . Direct Copying w/o attribution and / or quotationmarks Overly-close paraphrasing Copying the outline of another work Cut-and paste from the Internet Misusing or not using quotation marks 16