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REFERENCES

 

An important component of a college paper consists of accurate reference to material used in the preparation of the paper.  There are several formats.  For your Final Project in SOC 301, you will be asked to use the format that is used in sociological publications, a skill you probably acquired in one of your earlier courses.

 

PART I 

 

  1. If you use the ideas of someone else, but not their exact words, you must reference this in your written text.  There are two ways of doing this.
  2. If you mention the name of the author in your sentence, put the year of the publication in parentheses after the author’s name.  Example:  Johnstone (2004) has attempted to write a sociological textbook that students can easily read.
  3. If you do not mention the name of the author in your sentence, but use his or her ideas; put the author’s name and year of the publication in parentheses.  Example:  The ability to break out of the immediacy of one's own experience and place it in a wider context is called the sociological imagination (Mills 1959). 
  4. If you use the exact words of someone else, you must put their words inside quotation marks.  The name of the author and the year of his or her publication are then placed inside parentheses after the end of the quotation.  A colon and the page number follow the year. Example:  "African-American women's position in the economic, political, and ideological terrain bounding intellectual discourse has fostered a distinctive Black feminist intellectual tradition” (Collins 1990:  16).

PART II

 

At the end of your paper, add a section called "References."  List each reference in alphabetical order.  Cite the author’s name, the year of the publication, the name of the publication, the name of the city where it was published, and the name of the publisher. See the example below.

 

Johnstone, R.L. 2004.   Religion in Society:  A Sociology of Religion.  Upper Saddle,

          NJ:  Prentice Hall.

 

 

For more information consult:   ASA  Style Citations.pdf

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