Citing and Plagiarism

You will need to know: 

1. Author or Organization
2. Year of Publication
3. Title OR Chapter Title & Page #s
4. Editors (if applicable)
5. Publishing City/Publisher (book)
6. Retrieval date (if found online)
7. URL

Examples:

• Book with One Author

Gurr, Ted Robert, ed. 1989. Violence in America. Vol. 1, The History of Crime. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

• Book with More than One Author: Same as with one author, but do not invert authors’ names after the first author. Separate authors’ names with a comma, and include the word and before the final author.

Corbin, Juliet, and Anselm Strauss. 2008. Basics of Qualitative Research. 3^rd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

• A Specific Chapter

Clausen, John. 1972. "The Life Course of Individuals." Pp. 457-514 in Aging and Society. Vol. 3, A Sociology of Stratification, edited by

M.W. Riley, M. Johnson, and A. Foner. New York: Russell Sage.

• Scholarly Journal (more than one author)

Coe, Deborah L., and James D. Davidson. 2011. “The Origins of Legacy Admissions: A Sociological Explanation.” Review of Religious

Research 52(3):233-47.

• Website

Purdue University. 2012. "Purdue University's Foundations of  Excellence Final Report: A Roadmap for Excellent  Beginnings." Retrieved Nov. 21,

2014 (http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/provost_pubs/1/).