From our recent faculty meeting:

Research Resources

                Grolier – subscription databases available only within SBS building.  The website is www.go.grolier.com.  Userid is stbernard, Password is dogs.  Grolier provides a number of research databases.   For more information, see Sue Thomson.

                Iconn.org – databases available anywhere in Connecticut (or outside of Connecticut with a library card from a public library in Connecticut).  Databases include New York Times and a number of other national newspapers, professional and popular journal articles, historical issues of newspapers, and other subject area reference materials.  For more information go to www.iconn.org, or see: http://franblo.edublogs.org/2008/07/03/using-great-internet-research-tool-iconn/.

                Why not Wikipedia?  Did you know that anybody – anybody – can make changes to Wikipedia pages?   Enough said.

                The SBS Style Manual is on Fred Smith’s and Art Lamoureux’s Edline pages.  (Login to Edline, then click on Classes, over on the upper right.  Scroll through until you see a class one of them teaches and click on the class title.  The Style Manual is among the documents at the right.) 

                An internet source that provides citations for bibliography/works cited in MLA format,  virtually identical to our Style Manual format, is www.citationmachine.net.  You select the type of resource (book, webpage, database accessed through a library, etc.) then fill in the blanks provided; the program generates the appropriate citation.   For further information, see http://franblo.edublogs.org/tag/citation-bibliography/.

• 1. Click on the References tab.
• 2. First, click on Style, and select MLA, the style used at SBS.

Creating your source information

• 3. Next, click on Insert Citation, then on Add new source. At the top of the Create Source dialog you will see: Create Source: Type of Source gives you many different types of sources to choose from.

 This might be a book, a magazine article, a document from a web site, among many other possibilities. 

• 4. Once you choose the type of source, you’ll see that the information required changes. Most sources, though, have an author. Click on Edit, so that you can put the author’s name(s) in the correct format.
• 5. Continue adding the required information. Sometimes you won’t have all the information, in which case you’ll need to leave the field blank.
• 6. You’ll notice that as you come to a field, an example of the type of information you might include is shown at the bottom of the dialog box.
• 7. You can continue to add sources in this way.

Adding citations to text

• 8. Suppose you have created several citations. As you’re writing your paper, you find that you should cite where information came from. For example, you have written: King says, “I really never set out to find horror; it seemed to find me.”
• 9. Click on References, and Insert Citation. You’ll see a list of the sources you’ve already created.
• 10. Click on the appropriate source, and the appropriate citation in text will be added wherever your cursor was last placed. When there is an author’s name, the last name will be given; when there is no author’s name, other text that identifies the source is inserted. ↓ Citation

Example: King says, “I really never set out to find horror; it seemed to find me.” (King) 

• 11. If you have a page number for this source, as in the case of a book or magazine article, add it after the author’s name using the format (last name, page) . Example: (King, 277)

Managing your sources

• 12. If you find that you have erroneous information about a source, click on Manage Sources in the References Tab, and you can edit or delete a source.

Generating your bibliography or works cited

•13.   Go to the very end of your document.  Start a new page  by clicking on Insert and then Page Break.

• 14. Click on References and then Bibliography. Click on either Bibliography (a list of all sources located for this research) or Works Cited (a list of sources used in this document). Your assignment will dictate which is required.

Bibliography          

King, Stephen. On Writing. New York: Scribner, 2000.

“Teenreads Interviews Stephen King.” 3 March 2005. Teenreads. 15 October 2007 <www.teenreads.com/interviews/sking.html>.

• 15. Later, if you add more sources, click on the word Bibliography in your bibliography and you’ll notice that some new options are available.
• 16. Click on Update Citations and Bibliography, and the new sources will be added in the correct places in your bibliography!!!. Further, if you click on the left-most icon above your Bibliography, to the left of “Update Citations and Bibliography,” you are given the option of changing your dynamic bibliography to static text (text that can no longer be changed).