5th Grade Citation
Works Cited entries should be in alphabetical order and use a hanging indention. The four categories are as follows.
Print - For any information which comes from any kind of print material the student should be able to tell the teacher:
Online source – citation for Online Articles – Any online source with both a clear author and a clear publisher:
Online source – citation for Professional Sites - Any online source which lacks either a clear author, a clear publisher or both:
Citation of images – for any use of a picture in which a student printed or traced the image, or did a freehand drawing using the image as its source. This is for images which have online source. Non-online sources are not addressed at this time. This is citation for fair use.
Print - For any information which comes from any kind of print material the student should be able to tell the teacher:
- Author’s last name
- Author’s first name
- The title of the book (or other kind of print source)
- Place of publication
- Publisher
- Date of Publication
- The page number of where the information came from
- The word “Print.”
Online source – citation for Online Articles – Any online source with both a clear author and a clear publisher:
- Author
- Article title
- The website tile
- Publisher name
- Date published Example: 17 Dec. 2013
- The word “Web.”
- Date researcher visited the site Example: 17 Dec. 2013
- URL (5th grade definition)
Online source – citation for Professional Sites - Any online source which lacks either a clear author, a clear publisher or both:
- Title of page or section
- The website tile
- Name of organization
- Date site was last updated Example: 17 Dec. 2013
- The word “Web.”
- Date researcher visited the site Example: 17 Dec. 2013
- URL (5th grade definition)
Citation of images – for any use of a picture in which a student printed or traced the image, or did a freehand drawing using the image as its source. This is for images which have online source. Non-online sources are not addressed at this time. This is citation for fair use.
- Title of Image
- The website tile
- Name of organization
- Date site was last updated Example: 17 Dec. 2013
- The words “Web image.”
- Date researcher visited the site Example: 17 Dec. 2013
- URL (5th grade definition)