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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IRIS 4-2 is an Information Literacy project developed with a grant from the Distance Learning Council of Washington, 2007-2008. Some content, images and activites were inspired by, and/or copied/adapted from TILT: The Texas Information Literacy Tutorial (no longer available). IRIS 4-2 is available for adaptation under the terms of the Creative Commons License.

This version of IRIS 4-2 includes modifications made by Linda Zuvich, Library IT Specialist, Everett Community College Library. An unmodified version may be found at http://www.clark.edu/Library/iris.

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Citation COP: Collect Information

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