VCDE 701 Design History Seminar: Evaluating & Citing Resources

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Evaluating Sources - Learning Information Veracity (LIV) at RIT

LIV@RIT is a self-paced interactive tutorial designed to introduce RIT students to a variety of important concepts related to the use of information resources in an academic setting. LIV@RIT is intended to help students maximize their ability to effectively use the RIT Libraries' information resources and the World Wide Web.

Citation - Chicago - Notes-Bibliography Style

In many of your assignments you will need to cite where you found your information in Chicago Manual of Style Notes and Bibliography Style. Here is a link to a quick guide outlining the Chicago Manual of Style Notes and Bibliography style format. Listed below are sample citations for common sources you will use in your research.

QUICK Guide for Notes-Bibliography Format: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html
FULL Chicago Manual of Style click here.

Sample Entry - Chicago Notes/Bibliography EBOOK

E-book
For books consulted online, include a URL or the name of the database in the reference list entry. For other types of e-books, name the format. If no fixed page numbers are available, cite a section title or a chapter or other number in the text, if any (or simply omit).

Format for Note.

#. Firstname Lastname of author. Titles of ebook. (Place publisher: Publisher, Date published.), page #. Database name or location. 

Sample Note

1. Wendy Kaplan. California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a  Modern Way. (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011), 75.         ProQuest Ebook Central.

Format for Bibliography.
Lastname, Firstname of author. Title of ebook. Place publisher: Publisher, Date published. Database name or location. 

Sample Ebook Reference list  entry (alphabetical order by author name)

Kaplan, Wendy, editor. California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a  Modern Way. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011.
     ProQuest Ebook Central. 

Sample Entry - Chicago Notes/Bibliography EJournal

EJournal: In a note, cite specific page numbers. In the bibliography, include the page range for the whole article. For articles consulted online, include a URL or the name of the database. Many journal articles list a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). A DOI forms a permanent URL that begins https://doi.org/. This URL is preferable to the URL that appears in your browser’s address bar.

Format for Note.

#. Firstname Lastname of author. "Title of article." Title of Journal. vol. #, issue # (Month/Year). page # or page range. Database Name or DOI (if available) or URL.

Sample Note
1. Michael J. Golec. "Graphic Visualization and Visuality in Lester Beall's Rural Electrification Posters, 1937." Journal of  Design History, 2013, 26, no. 4, 408.  JSTOR.

Format for Bibliography
Lastname, Firstname of author. Date of publication. "Title of Article."Journal Name.vol. issue number, page numbers. Database Name or DOI (if available) or URL.

Sample Ejournal Reference list entry (alphabetical order by author name)
Golec, Michael J. 2013. "Graphic Visualization and Visuality in Lester Beall's Rural Electrification Posters,                                1937." Journal of  Design History 26, no. 4, 401-15.  JSTOR.

Sample Entry Chicago Notes/Bibliography Video

Video
Chicago Note-Bibliography system does not have an exact format for video - you can extrapolate how to cite a video by using the website reference format in the Quick Guide (example of TEDex talk (video) is given, along with online interviews found in the full online Manual. 

Sample Note:
1. RISD Museum. "1:1 Designer Doug Scott on For the Voice." 2016. Youtube: RISD Museum Channel.Providence, RI, video, 3:06,  https://youtu.be/kDdZepSo_Cw

Sample Video Reference list entry (alphabetical order by author name)

RISD Museum. "1:1 Designer Doug Scott on For the Voice." 2016 Youtube: RISD Museum Channel. Providence, RI, video, 3:06,
      https://youtu.be/kDdZepSo_Cw

Sample Entry - Chicago Notes/Bibliography Website

Website
It is often sufficient simply to describe web pages and other website content in the text (“As of May 1, 2017, Yale’s home page listed . . .”). If a more formal citation is needed, it may be styled like the examples below. For a source that does not list a date of publication or revision, use n.d. (for “no date”) in place of the year and include an access date.

Note Format
#. First Name Lastname of Author or Authoring body.  "Title of Website." Website name. Date of publication. Date Accessed. Website URL.

Sample Note Format

1. David Gibson.  "Sylvia Harris." AIGA: The Professional Association for Design. 2014. Accessed June 28, 2020.
     https://www.aiga.org/medalist-sylvia-harris

Sample Website Reference list entry (alphabetical order by author name)

Gibson, David."Sylvia Harris." AIGA: The Professional Association for Design.2014.Accessed June 28, 2020.
     https://www.aiga.org/medalist-sylvia-harris

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