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Citation COP: Collect Information

Every information source is unique

To properly cite a source you need to collect all the information that makes that source unique.

Here's an example of collecting information about a book with one author.

When citing a book withone author you need to know the author's name, title of the book, publisher, city of publication, and date of publication. You can usually locate all this information on the title page and the back of the title page.

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