TinWiki.org:Cite sources

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If you already use a particular citation style, especially the preferred style by scholars in a field related to the article you are editing, please use the citation style of your choice.

A good standard is The Chicago Manual of Style’s Scientific Style, which has the following generalized format. This presentation has had the Wiki-tags shut off, so that, if you want to use this style, simply cut and paste and then fill in the relevant information without removing any of the markups, following that is an example with the code in effect.

Author Last Name, Author First Name. Year. Title of the Work. ''Journal Name'' '''Vol#''' (Issue#): Startpage–Endpage.
Candido, CL & Romney, DM. 1990. Attributional style in paranoid vs. depressed patients. Br J Med Psychol. 63 (Pt.4):355–363.

Notice the use of the second author's name. For papers with more than one author, simply use the primary (first listed) author, and then use the term et al.

1 How to code an internal reference
2 Citation Formats
3 Web sites and articles (not from periodicals)
4 Books and their Electronic Equivalents
5 Journal articles
6 Newspaper/magazine articles (or online periodicals)

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How to code an internal reference

Use the <ref></ref> tags within the line containing the reference. Between the brackets woudl be the citation as you want it to appear at the bottom of the page. For example:

The CFR has advocated the loosening of US national border restrictions and greater cooperation between North American governments on a trans-national level. <ref> Aspe, P. "et al". Building a North American Community. Council on Foreign Relations Press. May 2005. 175pp. </ref>

This will create a clickable endnote number in super-script at the end of the sentence. The Tinwiki will automatically change the numbering as more are added. The text of the citation will appear with the corresponding number in a References subsection of the article that you also have to create. Do this by typing as it appears here:

==References== <references/>

Now you will have citations in the text that are ordered and that can be clicked on to 'jump' to the citation itself.

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Citation Formats

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Web sites and articles (not from periodicals)

To cite an entire Web site, without specifying a specific document on the site, simply give the site's URL in the article text (this is an APA recommendation). In Tinwiki, a simple URL beginning with "http://" is automatically rendered clickable as well, which is what you want. Here is an example of such text: "Slashdot is a popular web site at http://slashdot.org/ ".

Specific web pages (or sets of pages) are cited like books are (and you make the title a link), but with a retrieval date:

Gates, Bill & Ballmer, Steve (1998). "The Big Open-source Advocacy Homepage". Retrieved Aug. 5, 2003.

Because the Web is dynamic, it is possible that a web page used as a reference may become inactive. Do not remove such inactive references—even inactive, they still record the sources that were used. Make a note of the date that the original link was found to be inactive. If an Internet Archive copy of the page is known, add a link to that.

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Books and their Electronic Equivalents

Lincoln, Abraham; Grant, U. S.; & Davis, Jefferson (1861). Resolving Family Differences Peacefully (3rd ed.). Gettysburg: Printing Press. ISBN 0-12-345678-9.

For an edited book, put "(Ed.)" or "(Eds.)" in parentheses after the last author, before the date.

For a specific article or chapter in an edited book, use:

Pooh, Winnie T. & Robin, Christopher (1926). Modern techniques in heffalump capture. In A. A. Milne (Ed.), The Karma of Kanga, pp. 23–47. Hundred Acre Wood: Wol Press.

As service providers begin making books available online it will become increasingly useful to cite them in the Tinwiki by linking book citations to their electronic equivalents:

Nash, Jay Robert (1994). Alferd Packer. In Encyclopedia of Western Lawmen & Outlaws. Da Capo Press. p. 250. ISBN 030680591X. Google Print. Retrieved April 13, 2005.

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