The Basics
In-Text Citations
Sources
Works Cited
100
The font size and type face that your paper should be in.
What is 12pt Times New Roman
100
The punctuation marks that surround you in-text citations
What are parenthesis?
100
An unreliable source that anyone can edit easily.
What is a Wiki?
100
A list of all of your references that is detailed and separate from the rest of your paper.
What is the works cited page?
200
The size of your margins all the way around your paper.
What is 1 inch
200
This information goes inside of your in-text citation if you know the author and where you found your quote.
What is Author's last name and page number?
200
A source that has been read by others in the field.
What is a peer reviewed article?
200
The order of your citations.
What is alphabetical order?
300
It goes in the upper right hand corner of you paper on every page.
What is last name and page number
300
A shortened title of the work you are referencing that is placed in quotation marks.
What do you do when there is no known author.
300
Who is a person that you can talk to in person for help with research (not your teacher).
Who is the research librarian?
300
the .5 indention of all lines of a citation after the first.
What is a hanging indent?
400
This goes on the left side of your paper on the first page only. It includes important information such as your name, instructor, class, and date.
What is a block header
400
When you include the first initial of the author along with the authors last name and page number.
What is citing two authors with the same last name?
400
The NC link on the library homepage that will allow you to search many different electronic databases.
What is NC Live?
400
The two dates that appear on the citation of an online source.
What is the publication date and the date of access.
500
This item on your first page is not underlined, bold, or italicized, but it is centered
What is the title?
500
Owl Purdue
Where you should go when you need to look up information on citing.
500
The new resource link on the library homepage that has many different databases organized by topics.
What is Gale Databases?
500
The abbreviation for multiple names (translates to "and others")
What is et al.?
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