Documenting Evidence

Hye readers! As usual on Thursday, we got ELC class. Today we learned about how to document evidence and make it into the proper reference or bibliography in the report. Usually social science students, use APA style for citing articles. This was based on 6th edition of the APA Publication manual of the American Psychological Association.

When we were cite a magazine, journal, or newspaper article that found through database, we must include some key components. According to Krishnakumari, K., Nor Azni Abdullah, and Ahmad Mazli Muhammad (2010), there are several reasons why it is important to document the sources because to let reader know that you have done your homework and you are building from the ideas and research of others. Besides that, to inform the reader where to locate the original document if he or she is interested in it and to avoid plagiarism by giving appropriate credit where it is due (Krishnakumari, K, et al.,2010).

There are some reference forms such as books, a book, periodicals or electronic sources. The basic element that include in text-citation are author, year of publication, book tittle, publication city and the publisher. For example, for books with one author: Clouse, B. F. (2010). A troubleshooting guide for writers:Strategies and process. Kuala Lumpur:   McGraw-Hill

Usually when I am doing my report, I use online in-text citation for make reference. The current website that I used is http://www.bibme.org/. The picture of the website as shown below:

There were difference between bibliography and reference list. A bibliography is a list of all the material that we consulted whereas reference list includes only the sources of the material that we used in the actual writing of the assignment. Besides that, both the bibliography and reference list appear at the end of the research paper. As a conclusion, it is important to do the in text-citation because from that we can show the writer work and to appreciate them in that way. That's all. Thank you for your reading :)