IV: Citing Primary Sources
An Illustrated Guide for Students, Researchers, and Educators
Table of Contents
IV. Citing Primary Sources
A. The Purpose andNecessity of ClearCitation of Sources
B. Style Guides
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Abstract
For students, the task of adding “end matter”—footnotes, bibliographies, appendices, and indexes—to writing projects can be daunting and time-consuming one. The task of doing proper citations seems fraught with seemingly arbitrary requirements for citation and bibliographic entries, with parentheses, colons, italics, and commas scattered throughout counterintuitively indented lines of text. Despite the anxiety-inducing nature of source-citation, students should realize that these oddly structured lines of reference material are in fact exquisitely sensible.
Contents
- I: An Overview of Historical Sources
- II: Understanding and Interpreting Primary Sources
- III: Finding Primary Sources
- IV: Citing Primary Sources