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Citation Exercise

Practice Identifying the source type for each citation.

How would you search for this source?

1. Kaiser, Jocelyn. &Study Sounds Alarm on Yellowstone Grizzlies." Science 284.5414 (1999): 568.

Book chapter
Newspaper article
Article in a journal
World Wide Web site
Correct! This citation refers to an article in Volume 284 Issue number 5414 of the journal Science. Incorrect.

2. Klein, Joe. "Shadow Land: The Struggle to Control Iran's Future." The New Yorker. 2002. 12 Dec. 2002. http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020218fa_FACT.

Scholarly dissertation
Book
Article in a newspaper
An article in an online version of a magazine
Correct! This citation refers to an article in the online version of The New Yorker magazine. Incorrect.

3. Bebbington, Paul, Jo Bowen, and Rajini Ramana. "Life Events and Psychotic Disorders." Clinical Disorders and Stressful Life Events. Ed. Thomas W. Miller. Madison, CT: International Universities Press, 1997. 89-119.

Book
Journal article
Book chapter
Article from a Web site
Correct! This citation refers to the chapter 'Life Events and Psychotic Disorders' in the book Clinical Disorders and Stressful Life Events. Incorrect.

Finding Sections

1. Finding
2. Library Classification Systems: Citations
3. Reading Citations

     4. Citation Exercise

5. Library Catalogs
6. Finding Exercise
7. Library Organization: Sections
8. Library Classification Systems: Subject

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