Earlham College - Geology 211

Geosciences 211
Physical Geology

Physical Geology Website Assignment

Earlham College, Geosciences 211, Spring 2005

How to Cite Websites

Your website must represent your own effort to gather information about your topic, to organize this information in a new way and to provide written explanation of your efforts. You may not simply lift words written by another and include them as your own original work. Examine the description on plagiarism on the Geo 211 course syllabus for more detail on this point.

Technical notes:

Within each sentence providing new information or at the end of a paragraph, add the author(s) and year for each source used.
Put these in parentheses before the period ending a sentence: Colobus monkeys are hunted for food (Wininger, 1987).
If you are referring to more than one source, put in chronological order from oldest to newest and use semicolons to separate them: (Wilson, 1999; McKinney, Badeusz, and Nelson, 2000).
For further details, refer to Using Scientific Literature in Biology Courses

In-text citations:

Literature Cited:

List all the websites you have used. Follow the format given below.
List them alphabetically by author.
For further details, refer to Using Scientific Literature in Biology Courses

General Format Citing for Websites:

Author's name or the name of the organization (Go to the homepage of the site, if necessary, to find the author/organization. If you can't find an author or organization, don't use the site.)
Year month day of publication/copyright or last revision (Go to the homepage of the site, if necessary. If you can't find a date, say "date unknown.")
Title of document (only capitalize the first word)
[If it's an article from electronic journal, magazine, or newspaper, add title of journal. Include volume and page numbers, if available. If the journal is available from an online database, not from the website of the journal, include the database name. See example * below
URL (this should be linked)
Year month day you accessed the site
For further details, see examples below and refer to Use CBE Style to Cite and Document Sources

Personal or Organization Home Page

Trueblood, N. 2001 September. Home page. http://www.earlham.edu/~biol/nathan/home/homepage.htm Accessed 2001 October 6.

IUCN World Conservation Union. 2001. Home page. http://www.iucn.org/ Accessed 2001 October 6.

Personal or Organization Page with a Specific Title

Judd, T. 1998. The sequestering of secondary compounds from sponges by nudibranchs. http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Entomology/courses/en570/papers_1998/judd.html . Accessed 2001 October 1.

Huntington's Disease Society of America. 1996 July 5. Huntington's disease. http://www.earlham.edu/~libr/wildman/<font%20face="Arial,%20Helvetica,%20sans-serif"%20size="-1">http://neuro-www2.mgh.harvard.edu/hdsa/huntingtonsdisease/nclk Accessed 2001 March 12.

E-Journal or News Article (from a Publication Only Available Online)

Carroll, M. 1999. August 13. Picking apart sponges. Part 2: Chemical defenses could mean powerful medicine. ABC News Science. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/exped_flkeys990813pt2.html . Accessed 2001 October 1.

Print Journal Accessed Online (for the online duplicate of the print version, add [online verison])

Oxford, G.S. and R. G. Gillespie. 1998. Evolution and ecology of spider coloration. [online version] Annual Review of Entomology 43: 619-643.

If you think that additional content is available in the online version, then use this format adding the URL and access date:

Muranaka, Ken. 2001. Anticancer activity of estradiol derivatives: A quantitative structure-activity relationship approach. Journal of Chemical Education 78:1390. http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/Journal/Issues/Current/PlusSub/V78N10/p1390.pdf Accessed 2001 October 4.

*Journal accessed through a database (GeoREFs, Academic Search Elite, etc.)

Lumaret, J-P. and J.M. Lobo. 1996. Geographic distribution of endemic dung beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) in the western palaearctic region. Biodiversity Letters 3:192-199. JSTOR. Accessed 2001 October 6.

Capozza, K. 1999 March/April. The fruit of the sea. E Magazine: The Environmental Magazine 10:20-21. Academic Search Elite. Accessed 2001 October 6.

If a Site Specifies a Citation Format to Use, Follow its Directions

Packer, L. and R. Owen. 2001. Population genetic aspects of pollinator decline. Conservation Ecology 5(1): 4. [online] URL: http://www.consecol.org/vol5/iss1/art42001 October 8.

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, OMIM (TM). Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. MIM Number: 300100: November 9, 1999. World Wide Web URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/ (13 March 2000)