Lecture Bibliography cards, note-cards and note taking. Avoiding plagiarism and referencing. Plan

You must also number the cards that contain that information and stack these in order. (The numbers on the cards must correspond with the numbers in your parenthetical references.)
• Usually the author’s last name and a page number are sufficient.
Example: The South influenced Wright’s childhood and fiction (1 Fabre 49).
If the author’s name appears in the sentence in your text, you need only a page number.
Fabre describes Morrison’s youth and later writing as “enriched by Southern
culture” (2, 49).
If you are citing the work in general and you name the source and the author in the text, no citation is needed.
Fabre, in his World of Richard Wright, considers Wright to be a writer of strong yet variable commitments.
If you are quoting more than three lines of poetry or four lines of prose, indent one inch from the left margin and single space. No quotation marks are needed. Citation follows in ( ) after final punctuation. Use three periods . . . when editing long quotations.
And I’ll pull the car up on
the driveway. . . and we’ll go up
to your room to see you sitting on the
floor with the catalogs of all the great
schools in America around you (3 Hansberry 89).
If no author’s name is given, as with many articles in periodicals or reference works, abbreviate the title of the article. For example, if the full title of the article, as listed in your Works Cited is, “Neglected African American Writers”: Many feel Morrison’s recognition is long overdue (4 “Neglected” 23).
If you are citing something in a multi-volume series, include the number of the volume: Morrison, for all her fame, has only published a few works (5 Inge, Duke, and Bryer 2: 7-8).
If the multi-volume series is alphabetically arranged like an encyclopedia, use the title of the article. External events had profoundly affected Sitting Bull’s mind (6 “Sitting”2206).
• If you are quoting a quotation from another book, abbreviate quoted as “qtd”: Wilson claims Morrison’s imagery “radiates from southern soil” (7 qtd. in Inge 1:12).
Look for empirical research. Whenever possible, look for peer-reviewed empirical research. These are articles or books written by experts in your field of interest, whose work has been read and vouched for by other experts in the same field. These can be found in scientific journals or via an online search.
Visit the library. Take a trip to your local library or university library. Although it may seem old fashioned, libraries are chock full of helpful research materials from books to newspapers and magazines to journals. Don’t be afraid to ask the librarian for help either - they are trained in research and know where everything about your topic is located.
Look online. Using a search engine and picking the top three results isn’t necessarily the best method of researching; use critical thinking to thoroughly read every source and determine if it is legitimate. Websites, blogs, and forums online aren’t required to publish facts only, so make sure that the information you find is trustworthy.
Typically, websites that end with .edu, .gov, or .org contain information that is safe to use. That is because these websites belong to schools, the government, or organizations dealing with your topic.
Try changing your search query (запрос) often to find different search results for your topic. If nothing seems to be coming up, it could just be that your search query isn’t matched well with the titles of most articles dealing with your subject.

Use academic databases. There are special search engines and academic databases available that search through thousands of peer-reviewed or scientifically published journals, magazines, and books. Although many of these require a paid membership to use, if you are a current student in college you have free access through your university’s membership.

Look for databases that cover your subject only. For example, PsycINFO is an academic database that holds nothing but works done by authors in the field of psychology and sociology. This will help you to get more tailored results than a very general search would
Most academic databases give you the ability to ask for very specific information by presenting multiple search query boxes as well as archives containing only a single type of resource (such as only journal articles or only newspapers). Take advantage of this ability to ask for specific information by using as many of the query boxes as you can.
Visit your school library and ask the librarian for a full list of the academic databases they subscribe to, as well as the passwords for each.
Get creative with your research. If you find one really awesome book or journal that fits your topic perfectly, try looking in the works cited/bibliography/reference list at the end of it. This should contain many more books and journals that are about your topic as well.