Citing Journal Articles

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Citing Journal Articles

• 12 Basic Skills for IQ

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The Four Pillars of IQ

• Find
• Retrieve
• Analyze
• Use

Correctly citing information resourcesbelongs to
the Use portion of FRAU,using information
ethically and legally.
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Why Bibliographic Style Matters

• Accomplishes the goal of using information
  ethically
• Ensures that important information (dates, page
  numbers, etc.) will be included in the paper
• Allows better focus on the papers content and
  easier navigation through the paper

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About Turabian Style

• Use the Notes-Bibliography Style (chapters 16-17
  of Turabian)
• Helpful templates for notes and bibliography
  entries for books and journal articles are
  included in section 16.1
• Details for correctly citing journal articles are
  in section 17.2

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Bibliographic Software

• Examples include RefWorks, EndNotes and Zotero
• Use your stylebook to clean up any discrepancies
  between the software-generated bibliographic
  information and Turabian style
• Microsoft Word will easily add footnotes using
  the Insert ? Reference ? Footnote menu items

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About Footnotes Bibliographies

• Footnotes tell readers where to find the
  information you provided in a specific place in
  your paper one resource may have several
  footnotes
• Bibliographies are a summary of all of the
  resources used in writing the paper include only
  one entry per resource
• Both use the same data elements just formatted
  differently

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What You Will Need

• Authors name
• Article title (always enclosed in )
• Journal title (always italicize)
• Issue information (vol. no., issue no.)
• Date of publication (as published by the journal
  date or month or season year)
• Page numbers ( URL if accessed online)

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Formatting Details

• Line indention
• Order of authors name(s) (standard order or last
  name first)
• How many authors to list
• Punctuation used to separate data
• Spacing of entries
• Ending punctuation (always a period)

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Footnotes Elements

• Note number. Firstname Lastname, Title of
  Article Subtitle of Article, Journal name
  volume, no. (date) page(s), URL where article
  may be retrieved (accessed date of access).

Type a space between the period and the authors
first name.
Place commas after author name(s), article title,
pagination between volume issue number.
First reference only use shorter version for
subsequent references.
Place the article title its comma inside
quotation marks.
Include URLs for online resources.
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Footnotes Elements (Continued)

• Note number. Lastname, Title, page(s).
• Insert one blank line between
  notes.
• Note number. Ibid., page(s).
• Styles for subsequent references.
• Use Ibid. when the reference is the
• Same as the one just preceding it.

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Bibliographic Elements

• Put periods after author name(s), article title,
  page numbers.

Lastname, Firstname. Title of article. Journal
name volume, no. (date) pages. URL where article
may be retrieved (accessed date).
Italicize the journal name.
If the article was found online, type in the
items URL and retrieval date.
Put the article title AND the period inside
quotation marks.
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Bibliography

• Badke, William B. Research Strategies Finding
  Your Way Through the Information Fog. 3d ed. New
  York iUniverse, 2008.
• Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of
  Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
  Chicago Style for Students and Researchers. 8th
  ed. Chicago University of Chicago Press, 2013.

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Questions?

• libraryiq_at_austinseminary.edu