Geography 100, Professor Jocoy Assignment
Library Research
Greg Armento, Geography Librarian
Spring, 2013
DATABASES TO USE
CITING THESE DATABASES
· Use Chicago Manual of Style (used by the Assoc. of American Geographers). If you use web-based items such as CIA World Factbook see examples below.
Basic Citation Form for Internet-Based Sources (this information taken from Univ of Indiana, Citing Government documents website
The basic form of a document retrieved via the WWW should include the author, title and edition, type of medium, date, availability link of directories and files as needed. If you have obtained the file using a browser, you may use the Uniform Resource Locator (URL).
FORMAT
Author (or Agency). Title (Or Name of Website). Edition (If Listed). Date of publication. Supplier (May be name of Author, or sub agency that produced site). URL. (accessed on DATE).
WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE
Lynch, Tim. 1996. Review of DS9 trials and tribble-ations. Psi Phi: Bradley's Science Fiction Club. http://www.bradley.edu/campusorg/psiphi/DS9/ep/503r.html (accessed October 8, 1997).
· For more examples, see this easy to use website for other examples of Chicago Style
ATLASES TO USE
· See this list of atlases Professor Jocoy has on RESERVE
CITING ATLASES (from the Chicago Manual of Style website)
Examples for edited atlases (same as an edited book)
· Columbia Gazetteer of North America. Edited by Saul B. Cohen. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
· Omni Gazetteer of the United States of America. 3rd ed. Edited by Frank R. Abate. Detroit: Omnigraphics, 1991.
Examples for an atlas with an author or authors (same as a book)
· Seager, Joni. The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World. 4th ed. New York: Penguin Books, 2009
