The Broadview Pocket Guide to Citation and Documentation

Compact and convenient, The Broadview Pocket Guide to Citation and Documentation includes information on MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE styles of citation and documentation. The second edition has been fully updated to reflect the 2016 revisions to the MLA style of documentation. A wide range of examples are provided throughout the book, and full sample essays in both MLA and APA styles are also included.

The book discusses summary and paraphrase as well as direct quotation, and includes an extensive treatment of how to integrate quoted material into the text of an academic paper. There is coverage too of what constitutes plagiarism - and how to avoid it.

Documentation and Research

Avoiding Plagiarism—and Choosing When and What to Quote
Citation and Documentation
Incorporating Sources

• Summarizing
  Paraphrasing
  Quoting Directly
• • Formatting Quotations
    • Short Prose Quotations
      Long Prose Quotations
      Verse Quotations
      Quotations within Quotations
      Adding to or Deleting from a Quotation
      • Using square brackets to add to a quotation
        Using an ellipsis to delete from a quotation
    • Integrating Quotations
    • • Avoiding “dumped” quotations
• Signal Phrases

MLA Style

About In-Text Citations

1. in-text citations
2. no signal phrase
3. placing of in-text citations
4. in-text citation when text is in parentheses
5. page number unavailable
6. one page or less
7. multiple authors
8. corporate author
9. more than one work by the same author cited
10. multi-volume works
11. two or more authors with the same last name
12. indirect quotations
13. short poems
14. longer poems
15. novels or short stories
16. plays
17. works without page numbers
18. sacred texts
19. works in an anthology or book of readings
20. tweets

MLA Core Elements

• Author
  Title of Source
  Title of Container
  Other Contributers
  Version
  Number
  Publisher
  Publication Date
  Location

• Date Of Original Publication
  City of Publication
  Books in a Series
  Unexpected Type of Work
  Date of Access

1. single author
2. two authors
3. three of more authors
4. corporate author, no author identified
5. works with an anonymous author
6. two or more works by the same author
7. works under a pseudonym
8. edited works
9. works in translation
10. selections from anthologies or collections of readings
11. cross-references for works from the same collection or anthology
12. multi-volume works
13. different editions
14. republished sources
15. reference work entries
16. works with a title in the title
17. material from prefaces, introductions
18. magazine articles
19. newspaper articles
20. journal articles
21. book reviews
22. periodical publications in online databases
23. illustrated books
24. graphic narratives
25. films or television episodes
26. online videos
27. radio broadcasts
28. podcasts
29. recorded music
30. live performances
31. works of visual art
32. interviews
33. online projects
34. e-books
35. information databases
36. entry in a wiki
37. blog post
38. e-mail message
39. tweet
40. comment posted on a webpage

MLA Style Sample

Incorporated Sources in APA Style

• Summaraizing
  Paraphrasing
  Quoting Directly
  Formating Quotations
• • Short Quotations
    Long Quotations
    Quotations within Quotations
    Adding to or Deleteing from a Quotation
  • • Using square brackets to add to a quotation
      Using an ellipsis to delete from a quotation
    Integrating Quotations
    • Avoiding “dumped” quotations
  Signal Phrases

1. in-text citation
2. no signal phrase (or author not named in a signal phrase)
3. titles of stand-alone works
4. titles of articles and chapters of books
5. placing of in-text citations
6. citations when text is in parentheses
7. electronic source—page number unavailable
8. two or more dates for a work
9. multiple authors
10. corporate author
11. author not given
12. date not given
13. two or more works in the same citation
14. two or more authors with the same last name
15. works in a collection of readings or anthology
16. indirect source
17. private and personal communications

About References

1. book with single author
2. two to seven authors
3. more than seven authors
4. corporate author
5. works with unknown author
6. two or more works by the same author
7. edited works
8. works with an author and a translator
9. selections from anthologies or collections of readings
10. electronic version of a print book
11. journal articles
12. abstract of a journal article
13. magazine articles
14. newspaper articles
15. book reviews
16. reference work entries
17. films and video recordings
18. episodes from television series
19. podcasts
20. music recordings
21. interviews
22. documents on a website
23. blog posts
24. entries in a wiki
25. tweets
26. other Web references
27. maps or charts
    

Chicago Style
About Chicago Style

1. notes
2. titles: italics/quotation marks
3. multiple references to the same work
4. page number or date unavailable
5. two or more dates for a work
6. two or three authors
7. four or more authors
8. author unknown/corporate author/government document
9. works from a collection of readings or anthology
10. indirect source
11. two or more works by the same author
12. edited works
13. translated works
14. e-books
15. magazine articles
16. newspaper articles
17. journal articles
18. films and video recordings
19. television broadcasts
20. sound recordings
21. interviews and personal communications
22. book reviews
23. blog posts
24. websites
25. online videos
26. tweets
    

CSE Style

In-text Citation
List of References
CSE Style Sample

Sample Essay (MLA Style)

Sample Essay (APA Style)

“This is an extraordinarily useful, usable, and affordable reference and supplement for students, writers, and editors. More and more, professionals and students are being called upon to document materials in varying styles, especially in MLA, Chicago, and APA, and this guide offers a convenient and clear reference for the most oft employed styles. In particular, the MLA update is extremely welcome given the guide’s inclusion of the new approach to documenting in MLA as well as multiple specific examples of both traditional sources (like print books and academic journal articles) and more recent source types (such as graphic narratives, tweets, and online video). I was particularly impressed with the entries that provided different examples for sources based on the access or presentation model for the source, such as an interview published in print in a newspaper versus an interview accessed via an online video posting.” — Brian Gastle, Western Carolina University

“The Broadview Pocket Guide is an efficient and effective tool for all kinds of learners in all academic disciplines and successfully demonstrates the most-used citation styles of the academic curriculum. The Pocket Guide is particularly insightful in terms of defining and avoiding plagiarism with real-world examples of its professional and academic consequences. Its multiple-view approach includes descriptions, examples, and online links which accommodates all student learning styles. Especially welcome are its practical elements—charts of signal phrases, citation tables that help use the new MLA style, bullet points at the end of each section which highlight the most significant elements of each style, and sample essays—all of which provide quick and easy access for students as they write and edit academic papers.” — Aleksondra Hultquist, Stockton University

“The second edition of Broadview’s Guide to Citation and Documentation incorporates everything you need for referencing across style guides into one efficient handbook. The editors include recent changes adopted by the MLA, and provide citation information for an expanded variety of digital and live media, from online videos to entries in a wiki. Much appreciated is the extended section on plagiarism, which clearly explains when, and not just how, to cite quoted material—indispensable for students at all levels of research.” — Tabitha Sparks, McGill University

Comments on the first edition of The Broadview Pocket Guide to Citation and Documentation:

“This is a clear, concise, and immensely helpful guide for writers in the humanities—at any level. I appreciate having one source that documents so efficiently the growing range of research sources—from information databases to web-based projects and all varieties of printed material. It will be required reading for my students, and I am looking forward to the convenience it will offer me in my own research and publication.” — Tabitha Sparks, McGill University

“… aimed primarily at the North American student market, a very useful small, reasonably priced [book] is Maureen Jeannette Okun’s The Broadview Pocket Guide to Citation and Documentation. Okun clearly explains the four different style systems: [MLA, APA, Chicago, CSE]. This guide concludes with a ‘Sample Essay (MLA Style)’ ….” — William Baker, Oxford University Press Journals: Year’s Work in English Studies