Citations & ZoteroBib

 

Summer Intensive 2022

Citations & ZoteroBib

Academic journals in your field (Browzine)

Citing sources: what do you need to know?

  • Using ZoteroBib
  • Correcting problems in auto-generated citations

Bibliography game

Answering style questions

Agenda

Academic Journals in Your Field

Comparing Tripod and Browzine:

  • Tripod lets you look up specific resources and find library access links.

  • Browzine helps you explore library journal subscriptions by subject.

Try it: Explore journals in your field

  • Look at the journals in Browzine for your subject area. Have you come across any of these journals before?
  • Choose a journal that sounds interesting. Open the most recent issue available in Browzine.
    • What is the year, volume number, and issue number?
    • Is there a theme for this issue? (Hint: You might see an "Editor's Note" or similar introduction. Sometimes the first article serves that purpose - it will often be shorter than other articles.)

Citing sources: what do you need to know?

Automated citation generators like ZoteroBib are great.
(Tripod, Google Scholar, and other search tools can also give you auto-generated citations.)

The crucial thing to understand as RIAs (and as writers!) is how to verify and correct your citations.

  • Metadata accuracy  (author, publication, editor vs. author)
  • Citing the same version of the work that you consulted (same format and edition, page numbers)
  • Capitalization  (sentence v. title case, proper nouns)
  • Access details  (access date and/or URL, when needed)

bibliography game!

How to play: Use Tripod to fill in the blanks

Bowker, Geoffrey C., and Susan Leigh Star. Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. ___________________, 1999.

print copy

what citation style?

MLA (8th)

MIT Press

_________________. (2019). Race after technology: Abolitionist tools for the new Jim Code. Polity.

print copy

APA style (7th)

Benjamin, R.

Mortimer-Sandilands, Catriona, and _________________, _____. Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire. Indiana University Press, 2010. Accessed August 22, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16gzhnz.

JSTOR ebook

Chicago style (17th, notes)

Bruce Erickson

eds

comparing styles

Bowker, Geoffrey C., and Susan Leigh Star. Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. MIT Press, 1999.

Bowker, Geoffrey C., and Susan Leigh Star. Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. Inside Technology. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1999.

Bowker, G. C., & Star, S. L. (1999). Sorting things out: Classification and its consequences. MIT Press.

MLA

APA

Chicago (notes)

spell out author names

title in headline case

abbreviate first and middle names

sentence case

spell out author names

include series title

answering style questions

Styles 101

Know the names of major styles

Ask student what style their professor is asking for

Understand common elements of citations and publications
 

Creating Basic Citations

Practice using ZoteroBib

Recognize potential problems with auto-generated citations
 

Getting the Details

Understand how to use style guides

Refer to subject librarian as needed

style guides

Print copies are always available in the Reference section

            + Chicago has a detailed online version that you can

                access through Swarthmore's subscription: Chicago Online

 

You can find basic guidance online directly from the publishers:

 

Other resources can be helpful, too, such as Purdue OWL and Libguides. Verify that they're using the same edition of the style guide you need.

Let's practice using ZoteroBib and citation guides.

Use ZoteroBib to generate citations for the following sources. Choose Chicago, MLA, or APA style.

Then check the accuracy of your generated citations against the official style guide.

Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching - Jarvis R. Givens

 

Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future - Gil Z. Hochberg

homework:
Biography of a Journal

Choose a journal to look into.

Answer the questions here:
bit.ly/rias-bio-journal

We'll talk about the journals tomorrow. Come prepared to share a bit about what you found.

 

Note: please don't spend excessive amounts of time on this! Give the questions a try, but it's okay to move on if you're stuck on one.

Some journals to consider:
American Indian Culture and
Research Journal

Environmental Humanities

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Philosophical Transactions

Technology & Culture

Transgender Studies Quarterly

Wicazo Sa Review

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