I am taking a social works class this semester and I am writing a paper but the professor wants us to cite our works. I tried to get my professor to tell me how but she said I should have learned that in English class. I haven't had english for 4 years now so could somebody tell me the correct way to cite a paper. I kind of remember it's something like this: (Author Title Year) but how do you cite an Internet source especially if you get it from a website where the author is not mentioned?
Try here for the Chicago Manual of Style's way of citing internet sources: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite7.html You can't go wrong using the Chicago structure.
Lil Pun, that teacher is a little wack. Did s/he tell you what style to cite in? There are several ways to do this? If she said something about English class, the most dominate form is MLA. Chicago is used as well. Usually, however, APA is used in social classes I believe, but that just may be in the upper divison courses. I'd go with MLA if she didn't specify, since it is a hellva lot easier to learn than chicago is.
Do you mean as a bibliography/works cited or as footnotes? The forms differ. An easy way to do it is open an academic book you have handy and copy what they do. Lets see if I can remember (bibliography): Last Name, First Name. Title. "Article," (Volume, Edition). City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. I can't say I was citing internet sources when it was relevant for me.
