Keeping up with the Latest Changes: Citation & Resource Changes for 2009 Ocean County College

1. Keeping up with the Latest Changes: Citation & Resource Changes for 2009 Ocean County College Fall Colloquium Thursday, September 3, 2009 12:45pm – 2:00pm

2. Caitlyn Cook Library Resources • Christine Kephart The Writing Center • Heidi Sheridan MLA 7th edition • Gary Schmidt APA 6th edition Order of Presentations

3. Presented by: Caitlyn R. Cook, M.L.I.S., M. Litt Office: Library 112 E-mail: ccook@ocean.edu Phone: x 2163 Library Resources

4. Information Literacy Sessions • Print Resources • Online Resources Library Resources

5. Individualized sessions cover a variety of topics • Librarians direct students towards available resources (both print and online) but do not talk about writing style or creating citations • Contact Torris Andersen for information and scheduling: • E-mail: tandersen@ocean.edu • Phone: x 2250 Information Literacy Sessions

6. Multiple copies of current style manuals and Rules for Writers available • Variety of additional style guides available • Older style manual editions available on limited basis • Contact Pamela Dong to request additional style guides as necessary for your course(s): • E-mail: pdong@ocean.edu • Phone: x 2245 Styles Guides

7. Online Resources http://www.ocean.edu/library/welcome.htm

8. Online Resources http://www.ocean.edu/library/welcome.htm

9. Online Resources

10. Online Resources

11. Online Resources

12. “The Source” http://lib.ocean.edu/the_source/the_source.htm

13. “The Source” http://lib.ocean.edu/the_source/the_source.htm

14. Purdue University Writing Lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

15. Purdue University Writing Lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

16. APA Style Guide Website http://www.apastyle.org/learn/

17. A caveat about automatic citation generation software… Online Resources • They: • do not all account for style updates • are not always accurate • require students to make a series of correct decisions • do not account for the grey areas of new or complex media types From Landmark’s Citation Machine http://citationmachine.net/

18. Provide “clear” instructions for students on how to cite in a particular way… but perhaps not the correct way • Example from the Facts on File database: Databases

19. EBSCO databases make citing easy… but inaccurate Databases

20. Presented by: Christine E. Kephart, Ph.D. Office: Russell 124 E-mail: ckephart@ocean.edu Phone: x 2262 The Writing Center

21. Main Campus: Russell Building • Room 124 • x 2262 • Southern Education Center: x 680 • Find current hours on Ocean Cruiser: • Go to “My Communities” • Scroll down to “My Generic Communities” • Click on “Tutoring and OCC Learning Resources” • Scroll down to Writing Center Locations & Hours

22. Writing (for developing and advanced writers) • - For any course that has a writing component • - For college application essays • Reading • Study Skills Services

23. Students Helping Students • Overview • Benefits Writing Skills Peer Tutors Courtesy of Dubuque Community Schools http://www.dubuque.k12.ia.us/cartoons/Cartoons4.htm

24. Helping Tutors Help Students The Writing Center & Faculty

25. Provide clear directives to students (hard copy / shared files) • - Clarify what version of documentation is required • for the class • - Include variations on MLA or APA style, like • whether to use the URL • - Caution against using citation generators • - Indicate whether “wiki” sources are allowed How Faculty Can Help Tutors

26. Provide copies of directives to The Writing Center • Clearly identify errors for students, esp. about Works Cited or References, like punctuation, format of model/type of source (Vague comments tend to leave students, and tutors, feeling helpless or uncertain about how to proceed) • Suggest that students purchase (and keep) Rules for Writers, the updated version How Faculty Can Help Tutors

27. Presented by: Heidi Sheridan, M.A. Office: Russell 220 E-mail: hsheridan@ocean.edu Phone: x 2197 Major Changes in MLA 7th edition

28. Major Changes in MLA 7th edition 6th edition 7th edition Rules for Writers 6th edition – w/ MLA update

29. Background • Essay Presentation (italics) • URLs • Electronic Sources • Online Databases • Medium of Publication • Avoid Student Confusion Overview

30. "In 1951 the Modern Language Association published "The MLA Style Sheet," . . . and ever since then the association has been refining the elements of MLA style and adding information that helps researchers perform their work" (MLA Handbook). • "In just [the last] thirty years, there has been a dramatic shift in the way we conduct research, find primary and secondary materials, process information, and prepare a paper for submission" (MLA Handbook). • "Reorganized and revised the new, seventh edition evaluates the kinds of research resources available today and demonstrates techniques for finding reliable information online" (MLA Handbook). Background

31. Anything that students underlined in previous MLA versions should now be presented in italics • Article example: • Piper, Andrew. “Rethinking the Print Object: Goethe and the Book of Everything.” PLMA 121.1 (2006): 124-38. Print. • Book example: • Rowling, JK. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. New York: Levine-Scholastic, 2000. Print. • Work in an Anthology example: • Bordo, Susan. “The Moral Content of Nabokov’s Lolita.” Aesthetic Subjects. Ed. Pamela R. Matthews and David McWhirter. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2003. 125- 52. Print. Essay Presentation (italics)

32. URLs are no longer required at the end of a citation, unless (1) a Professor requires it or (2) the source could not be found without it • Article taken from an online publication example: • Tyre, Peg. “Standardized Tests in College?” Newsweek. Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2007. Web. 15 May 2008. URLs

33. URLs

34. Web sources should include publishing information, publication date, and page numbers • If this information is unavailable, students may write N.p., n.d., or n.pag on their citation entry • Interview example: • Antin, David. Interview by Charles Bernstein. Dalkey Archive Press. Dalkey Archive P, n.d. Web. 21 Aug. 2007. Electronic Sources

35. Students who use an article found on an online database do not have to include as much information, including library subscription information • Article from an online database example: • Chan, Evans. “Postmodernism and Hong Kong Cinema.” Postmodern Culture 10.3 (2000): n.pag. Jstor. Web. 5 June 2008. Online Databases

36. Students must indicate the medium of publication in their citation entries • This is usually print or web, but may include video, radio, TV, painting, etc • CD example: • Holiday, Billie. The Essence of Billie Holiday. Columbia, 1991. CD. • Film example: • It’s A Wonderful Life. Dir. Frank Capra. Perf. James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, and Thomas Mitchell. RKO, 1946. Film. • Photograph example: • Evans Walker. Penny Picture Display. 1936. Photograph. Museum of Mod. Art, New York. Medium of Publication

37. Clarify what version of documentation is required for the class and where students can find a reference guide for that style • Give students a handout or direct them to examples of the most common citation types (books, articles, and websites) • Explain what portion of the essay’s grade is connected to the use of proper citation format • Make students aware of additional resources online and on campus Avoid Student Confusion

38. Presented by: Gary M. Schmidt, M.L.I.S Office: Library 111 E-mail: gschmidt@ocean.edu Phone: x 2248 Major Changes in APA 6th edition

39. Major Changes in APA 6th edition 5th edition 6th edition (available as of July, 2009)

40. The APA has, “…reordered and condensed the manual significantly [and] expanded guidance on…electronic reference formats…” (p. 3) • Greater emphasis has been placed on the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) • The name of the database is omitted in the bibliographic citation • Parenthetical and bibliographic citation standards for multi-author works have been revised Overview of Major Changes

41. “Since the last edition of the manual was published, we have gone from a population that reads articles to one that ‘consumes content’” (p. 3) • “New technologies have made increasingly sophisticated analyses possible, just as they have accelerated the dissemination of those analyses in multiple forms, from blogs to personal Web postings to articles published in online databases” (p. 3) Motivation for Revision

42. “The discussion of electronic sources has been greatly expanded, emphasizing the role of the digital object identifier as a reliable way to locate information” (p. 6) • The DOI system provides a technological infrastructure for managing and locating data according to persistent identification in the form of an alphanumeric string • Think of it as an ISBN number for the electronic age The Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

43. If an article has been assigned a DOI, it usually appears either (1) on the first page of the article or (2) among the article’s corresponding bibliographic information (p.189) • The DOI begins with the number 10 and contains a prefix and a suffix separated by a slash (p.189) • The APA recommends that the DOI be referenced for both print and electronic sources whenever it is available The Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

44. General reference form: Author, A.A., Author, B.B., & Author, C.C. (year). Title of article, Title of Periodical, xx, pp-pp. doi:xx.xxxxxxxxxx Journal article with DOI example: Verona, E., Sadeh, N., & Curtin, J. (2009). Stress-induced asymmetric frontal brain activity and aggression risk. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 118(1), 131-145. doi:10.1037/a0014376 The Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

45. If no DOI is assigned to the content and you retrieved it online, include the homepage URL for the journal, newsletter, or magazine in the reference” (p. 198) • Journal article without DOI but with full text available online example: • Verona, E., Sadeh, N., & Curtin, J. (2009). Stress-induced asymmetric frontal brain activity and aggression risk. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 118(1), 131-145. Retrieved from: http://www.apa.org/journals/abn/homepage.html The Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

46. “In general, it is not necessary to include database information. Journal coverage in a particular database may change over time” (p. 192) • “Do not include retrieval dates unless the source material may change over time (e.g., Wikis)” (p. 192) • The old way (5th ed.): • Verona, E., Sadeh, N., & Curtin, J. (2009). Stress-induced asymmetric frontal brain activity and aggression risk. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 118(1), 131-145. Retrieved July 15, 2009, from PsychARTICLES. • The new, revised way (6th ed.): • Verona, E., Sadeh, N., & Curtin, J. (2009). Stress-induced asymmetric frontal brain activity and aggression risk. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 118(1), 131-145. Exclude the Name of the Database

47. The old way (5th ed.): • Include the names of all authors up to and including the sixth author • Replace seventh and subsequent authors with “et al.” • The new way (6th ed.): • Include the names of all authors up to and including the seventh author • If the number of authors is greater than seven, include the names of the first six authors followed by three ellipses and then the last author’s name Citing Multi-author Works

48. The old way (5th ed.): • Gilbert, D., Mcclernon, F., Rabinovich, N., Sugai, C., Plath, L., Asgaard, G., et al. (2004). Effects of quitting smoking on EEG activation and attention last for more than 31 days and are more severe with stress, dependence, DRD2 A1 allele, and depressive traits. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 6(2), 249-267. Retrieved August 30, 2009, from Academic Search Premier. • The new way (6th ed.): • Gilbert, D., Mcclernon, F., Rabinovich, N., Sugai, C., Plath, L., Asgaard, G., … Botros, N. (2004). Effects of quitting smoking on EEG activation and attention last for more than 31 days and are more severe with stress, dependence, DRD2 A1 allele, and depressive traits. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 6(2), 249-267. doi:10.1080/14622200410001676305 Citing Multi-author Works

49. Caitlyn Cook E-mail: ccook Phone: x 2163 Christine Kephart E-mail: ckephart Phone: x 2262 Heidi Sheridan E-mail: hsheridan Phone: x 2197 Gary Schmidt E-mail: gschmidt Phone: x 2248 Contact Information

50. Questions?