1) DO NOT RELY SOLEY ON THE CITATION MACHINES. I know I showed you some of them. I know I told you to use them, but what I didn't realize is that people would not go back through their sources and double check information. Most (particularly websites) of the citations are incorrect. Books are fine for citation machines. I am fixing so many mistakes that for future years, I may not even allow these citations machines because they seem to be causing a lot of problems.
2) DO check out the Turabian Style Guide. If you are citing articles and books etc. this has examples that you can use as a guide to cite your own sources. I have linked it before, but here it is again. Turabian Style Guide
3) Other Citation Guides - Bibme's is pretty good. It breaks down the types of citations by categories and then gives you different scenarios to help you correctly cite your paper (ex/ how to cite a website page with an author, with no author, or with no publisher, etc)
WHEN IN DOUBT - Google 'how to cite (a book, website, journal article) in turabian'.
4) The MINIMUM sources is eight, but you are not limited to eight (you should probably have more). You may be using a website for several different sources. Each source must have its OWN citation. Each page, each article, etc. It's not okay just to cite the website's 'home' page and then use different parts of the website.
5) When citing a journal article that you found in an online database, the citation machines won't work like they are supposed to. You will need to do a bit of research. 'Journals' are published by different organizations and are full of research papers written by professional historians (or other fields) about specific topics.
I'm going to use one of Ashley's sources as an example. She found a journal article called 'Geisha, Harlot, Strangler, Star..." on the World History in Context database.
If you have a similar situation, and you are using a JOURNAL from a database, you need to look up where the article was originally published. It should say this in the database entry, or you can try to google it. I found Ashley's article HERE and I can see the publishing information about this particular article in this particular journal.
Mr Milton created this example for how to cite a online journal from a database:
Blair, James. “The Depression Breadline.” Social Policy: Essential Primary Sources: 186-189. Detroit: Gale, 2006. World History In Context. http://bit.ly/OTqPoF (accessed March 2, 2014).
In this example, 'Social Policy: Essential Primary Sources' is the name of the Journal, '186-189' are the pages I would find this article on if I were to look at a paper copy of this journal (along with some of the other publishing info)..finally, you would give a shout out to the Database at the very end 'World History in Context' with a shortened version of the link and the access date.
6) CoNsIsTaNcY Is KeY. In your titles, I see A LOT of inconsistencies..I'm going to assume that is a victim of the copying/pasting of the citation machines and your oversight of not double checking! Make sure that in a proper title of a book or article, Each Important Word is Capitalized.
You will have to have a properly cited bibliography attached to your final paper (does not count towards page total) in order to earn full points for your final paper. MAKE SURE YOU ARE MAKING THE CORRECTIONS I HAVE HIGHLIGHTED! It takes time to go through everything, don't keep passing in the same uncorrected versions!
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