[Hummel Bassoon Concerto. Terry B. Ewell, bassoon and Peter Amstutz, piano]

Welcome. This is a short video on citations in the journals and papers in my courses. My courses emphasize academic skills and using citations is one of the most important features of academic writing. If you create a citation correctly the first time, it will save you many minutes of struggle. In this course you will have plenty of practice learning this new skill!

Now, let me first review the reasons for citations:

1) Academic integrity. It is important to acknowledge the work of others and recognize their efforts. Passing off another’s work as your own is plagiarism.

2) For present and future reference. You might, for example, find a video or article that you would like to see again. Maybe I might want to see what you have discovered. Without the citation, however, you won’t know where to find it. If you have the citation, it will be easy to find.

Citation styles vary by discipline. In my courses we use MLA, which is common for English and the Arts. I am less strict in the 100 level courses than my 300 to 500 level courses.

Detailed information on the formats of citations is available at https://owl.purdue.edu/. The webpage on in text citations and the sample paper are particularly helpful. You can find the links in this video transcript.

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_
formatting_and_style_guide/mla_in_text_citations_the_basics.html

https://terryewell.com/m355/Docs/MLA2009SamplePaper.pdf

Let’s now practice with different citations.

So, here is a journal sample. Let’s say the first thing you want to do is to provide your summary and citation for this particular video. If I control-click on this one, it will bring it up. Skip verification and there we are. Now, I am going to start this. You will see here that this is my name; I am the author of this video. Here is the title of the video. So, the first thing that I would do after I have opened that link is to scroll down to works cited and let’s add that citation. Ewell, Terry B. You put the surname first, comma, and then the given names. Then we need the title. What was that title again? Overview of Case Studies (and a Few Musical Terms). I copy that complete title there. Here I do paste special, unformatted text to preserve the same formatting. Period and quotation. The period in American practice always comes inside the quotation. Now I need to then have the year. Well, that particular video did not have a year, did it? No. So, I will just put no date (n.d.) Then I need the URL or the web link. So, if just click up here. Right click, copy or control-c; go back to my document. Then I do paste, special, unformatted text because I don’t want the formatting to change. Put a period there. I press return and all of a sudden there is a hyperlink. That is OK. Then I need to have the accessed date. Accessed, this is the 14th of September 2023 period.

There it is! The citation is there. Now, is it in alphabetical order? Yes, numbers come before letters, so that is good.

OK, so now going up to the text here, what I need to do, here is my text. I put in my surname, comma and then the first word of the title. Now, if I am the only author in this list of citations, then it is just fine to put Ewell. But here I to have Overview, add a comma and a period. So, that is it. This is the in-text citation. Below we have the citation within the Works Cited.

Good, let’s do a couple more. Let’s see you need to do a Wikipedia entry here so let me control click this. That brings up the Wikipedia entry. So, I am going to work on this citation now. I don’t see an author and that is usually the case with Wikipedia, it is a community document. So, because I don’t see an author then I will have to go by the title. So, here is the title. Right click, copy or control C. Now I go back. I will paste it here at the end. Paste, special, unformatted text. There is it. I don’t know why it changed font on me. I will have to correct that. OK this is the title, put in quotation marks. Then I have to put this in order. Let me fix the font: Times New Roman. Next is Wikipedia. Then I need the URL. Right click, copy, go to the page, paste special, unformatted text, period. Accessed 14 Sep. 2023. We are done there.

In the body of the journal, “…Beyonce and Des’ree is detailed in a Wikipedia article.” What do I put there? I don’t have an author. Instead I will put part of the title—Kissing You. That is it.

“An online video demonstrates the similarities and plagiarism clearly.” Here is the video. It is a YouTube video. I click on that. I am looking here. I don’t see an author. Down here is the title. That is going to be my title. Copy there. Go to my journal and go to Works Cited. I think that it goes in this area. Paste Special, Unformatted Text, there we have it. Since it is a title, I will end with period and quotation. Now this is a YouTube video and not a publication of any type. I don’t see a date. So, I will just copy the URL, right click copy. Right click paste, period. Accessed 14 Sep. 2023. Very good. So then for my title up above. All I need to have here is “Dueling Divas.” Let’s get the correct font there. There we are. These are my in-text citations and the works cited are down here. Every work that is cited must appear somewhere up above.

Alright, let’s do another website. Here we have Wagner in Israel, a website that we need to look at. Let’s go on the website and here it is. We have a lot of information. First off, here is the author’s name. I am going to select that and copy that. Macintyre, I have to go down to my citations. Macintyre is before “My Sweet Lord.” Paste Special, unformatted text. Now, since this is an author I will cut that and put it at the end. What in the world happened there? Oh, I see. Here it goes, OK. Add the period. Now I need the title of the article. Here is the title, so I highlight the whole thing. Right click, copy, go to paste special, unformatted text, OK, there it is. Put in my quotation marks. Now, is there a journal, or a publication for that? Yes, there is. Something called “Independent.” This appears to be a scholarly journal or one that has been in publication, so I will it in italics. Do that by clicking here. Now we have to have the date. Here it is, 31 May 2012. You don’t need to put in the time. Paste special, Unformatted text, period. Now we need the URL. Copy…. Date accessed, 14 Sep. 2023 and you are done.

Since Macintyre is independent of other authors, there are no other Macintyres in the list, I can just put “Macintyre” here. Huh, he doesn’t capitalize the I. So I have to fix that. So, that is it. I have my citation there for this particular website.

Now, for Moser chapter 10 and for any of our textbooks the citations are given right in the course bibliography. So, let’s just take a look at that. I am in 355 here, but the other courses have bibliographies too. Click on Bibliographies, scroll down to Moser, where it that? There we go. I have to put that in here somewhere. I put it at the end. I forgot, in 355 you need to identify academic publications. This one is academic because it is from a journal and what else. That is it. We only have one Moser, so in my text citation here I will just put “Moser.” If you want to refer to a page, simply put in the page number there.

Alright, that is it! I know at the beginning it can be a little bit confusing, but you need to develop a system. If there is anything you learn in my courses it is that if you have regular patterns, regular systems for studying, recording information, of backing up information, all of that will simplify your life. It makes your life much happier. It avoids catastrophes and it actually saves you time. This is a citation system (you might want to call it). You will be mastering this over the course.

[Hummel Bassoon Concert0. Terry B. Ewell, bassoon and Peter Amstutz, piano]