Folgerpedia:Citing Folgerpedia: Difference between revisions

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While Folgerpedia is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License for distribution of its text and images, you may still wish to cite Folgerpedia. For more information and the inspiration for this citation style, please read Citing Wikipedia.

Chicago

The Chicago Manual of Style is the preferred citation style within Folgerpedia articles.

Whole website

Footnotes

Firstname Lastname, "Article Title," Folgerpedia, accessed Month day, year, URL.

Erica Zimmer, "History of Early English Books Online," Folgerpedia, accessed July 17, 2015, http://folgerpedia.folger.edu/History_of_Early_English_Books_Online.

"Hamlet," Folgerpedia, accessed August 26, 2014, http://folgerpedia.folger.edu/Hamlet.

Note that the Chicago Manual of Style states that "Well-known reference books, such as major dictionaries and encyclopedias, are normally cited in notes rather than bibliographies."

MLA

Whole website

Bibliography

Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). Name of Site. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation (if available). Medium of publication. Date of access.

Folgerpedia. Folger Shakespeare Library. 9 July 2014. Web. 26 Aug. 2014.

Individual article

Bibliography

Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). "Article title." Name of Site. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation (if available). Medium of publication. Date of access.

"Hamlet." Folgerpedia. Folger Shakespeare Library. 9 July 2014. Web. 26 Aug. 2014.

Be advised that MLA 7 does not require the URL for a particular article if the source can be easily located. If you so choose, the URL should be place between brackets, i.e. <>. Since Folgerpedia titles are the basis for the URL, accurately reporting the title of the article being cited should allow users to find the article without the URL.

APA

Whole website

Bibliography

Folgerpedia. (2014, 9 July). DC: Folger Shakespeare Library. Retrieved August 26, 2014, from http://www.folgerpedia.folger.edu

In text

(Folgerpedia, 2014)

Individual article

Bibliography

Hamlet. (n.d.). In Folgerpedia. Retrieved August 26, 2014, from http://folgerpedia.folger.edu/Hamlet

In text

("Hamlet," 2014)

Be advised that individual paragraph numbers or subheadings should also be included for specificity.

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 ====Bibliography====
-''Folgerpedia''. Folger Shakespeare Library. 9 July 2014. Web. 26 Aug. 2014.
+:Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). ''Name of Site''.  Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation (if available). Medium of publication. Date of access.
+:''Folgerpedia''. Folger Shakespeare Library. 9 July 2014. Web. 26 Aug. 2014.
 ===Individual article===
 ====Bibliography====
+:Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). "Article title." ''Name of Site''.  Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation (if available). Medium of publication. Date of access.
 "Hamlet." ''Folgerpedia''. Folger Shakespeare Library. 9 July 2014. Web. 26 Aug. 2014.
-*Be advised that MLA 7 does not require the URL for a particular article if the source can be easily located. If you so choose, the URL should be place between brackets, i.e. <>.
+*Be advised that MLA 7 does not require the URL for a particular article if the source can be easily located. If you so choose, the URL should be place between brackets, i.e. <>.  Since ''Folgerpedia'' titles are the basis for the URL, accurately reporting the title of the article being cited should allow users to find the article without the URL.
 ==APA==