A note on the minimum:
BLOB_1. There is a minimum amount of information for any citation to be complete, no matter what style sheet
you are using.
BLOB_2. The basic rule is that there should be enough information for anyone reading your work to be able
to get copies of the exact sources you used.
What do I need to know?
All the same, All a little different...
BLOB_1.
The twenty plus major style guides, also known as style sheets, all cover the same sorts of things, punctuation, capitalization, abbreviation,
organization, footnotes (and/or endnotes), citing, and bibliography.
BLOB_2. But the elements of any citing system have to
come together to identify specifically where any cited material was found.
BLOB_3. They also must take into account less
fixed information, such as an Internet website that can move or disappear and information that came from unrecorded conversations.
What do I need to know?
What kinds of information can be cited...and will be….maybe by
you...
Abstracts
Acts, legal
Acts, play
Advertisement
Advertising literature
Annual reports
Anthologies
Artworks
Audiobooks
Audiocassettes
Audiorecording
Audiotape
Audiovisual material
Bibliography
Bill,
legislative
Broadside
Bulletin Board, electronic
Caricature
Cartoon
Case, legal
Cassette tape
Catalog, Sales
or Trade
CD-ROM
Certification, examination
Charts, instructional aid
Classified document
Collected work
Composition, musical
Computer assisted instruction material (CAI)
Computer file
Conference publications
Congress
publications, see conference publications
Congressional document
Course outline
Database
Dialogue
Directory
Discussion list posting (archived)
Discussion list posting (not archived)
Dissertation
DVD (digital video disc)
Electronic
formats
e-mail
Encyclopedia or dictionary
Ephemera
Equipment catalog
Essay Title in a book.
Examination review
guide
Executive document
Exhibit catalog
Facsimile
Fact sheet
Film or filmstrip
Fine print
Flashcards
Formulary
Game
Government publication
Guidelines
Index
Indirect source (source quoted in another source)
Institutional publication
Instructional material
Interactive material
Interview
Journal article, online only
Journal
article, paper
Journal article, paper and electronic
Kit
Laboratory manual
Law, administrative
Law, judicial
Law,
legislative
Leaflet
Lecture or public address
Legal source
Legal source
Legislation
Letter (correspondence)
Listserv title
Literary work without parts or line numbers
Live performance
Looseleaf service publication
Manual,
instructions
Manuscript
Maps
Market survey
Master's Thesis
Microform
MOO or MUD
Motion pictures
Musical
composition
National bibliography
Network accessed information
Newsgroup posting
Newsletter
Newspaper
Novels with
numbered divisions
Online book
Oral history work
Organization as Author or Corporate Author
Pamphlet
Performance
Periodical
Personal interview
Personal letter
Personal narrative
Personal papers
Pharmacopoeia
Photograph
Poetry
Portrait
Poster
Posting to an online list, forum, or group
Proceeding
Published interview
Published
proceedings of a conference
Radio or television interview
Radio or television program
Realia
Recording
Regulations
Report, annual
Report, Court
Report, interim
Report, progress
Report, technical
Reprint
Sacred text
Satirical
work
Slides
Software
Sound recording
Standards and guidelines
Statistical work
Statistics, demographic
Statistics, vital
Student publication
Syllabus
Symposia
Teaching aid
Test
Textbook
Theses
Transcript,
Broadcast
Transcript, oral history
Translation
Unpublished Dissertation
Verse play
Videorecording
Web forum
posting
Web site
Work from a service
Work in an anthology
Workbook
Working papersC.
What do I need to know?
Organizing the Swirl…
We listed the form, or formats, in which information can be delivered, or received, The things you can collect from those forms
to describe the necessary location information are listed next. Use the pull down menus to check them out.
Who created it?
What is it called?
When did it happen?
Where was it released?
Author named
Article Title and Journal Title
Date accessed
Forum
Author or Authors
Conversation
Date last revised
Issue
Author unknown (Anonymous works)
Essay Chapter Title and Book Title
Date published
Limited
distribution material
Authors with the same last name
Format of non-print material (when required)
Date released
Listserv
Compiler
Title of Subscription Database
Date presented or published
Multivolume work
Corporate author
Title of the book
of essays
Date received
Newsgroup
Director
Title of Website
Date of sending
No page number given
Editor/s
Titles of film
One-page source
Four or more authors
Email subject line
Page or pages
Subscription Database publisher
Email to
Paragraph number
Translator
Memo Subject
Path directions
Two or more titles by the same author
Memo to
Persistent Link URL
Two or more works
Correspondence to
Place of publication
Two or three authors
Title of complete
work
Section Heading
Sentence number
Universal Reference Location (URL)
Volume
Volume and issue
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