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Reading Citations
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What is a Citation?
A citation is a reference or footnote to a book, a magazine or journal
article, or another source. It contains all the information necessary
to identify and locate the work. For a book, a citation will include
the author and title of the book, publication place, publisher, and
date of publication. For a periodical article, a citation will include
the author and title of the article, journal or magazine title, date,
volume, and page numbers.
See sample citations below: article, book,
chapter/essay, dissertation/thesis.
Where Do I Find Citations?
You can find citations in bibliographies of papers, books, articles,
dictionaries, book-length bibliographies, and library databases. HOMER
(the library's catalog) does NOT list citations for articles.
Examples of Citations
The examples below are intended to help users identify materials in
bibliographies. (Is it a book? an article?) There are a variety of citation
styles. Punctuation and word order may vary, but you can usually figure
it out.
To prepare your own bibliographies, please see Citing
Your Sources.
Article
Cook, Nicholas. "Beethoven's Unfinished Piano Concerto: A Case
of Double Vision?" JAMS 42/2 (Summer 1989): 338-74.
This is an article published in a scholarly journal.
Clues: article's title is in quotes, and you have a volume
and/or issue numbers/dates plus page numbers. JAMS is an abbreviation
for Journal of the American Musicological Society (abbreviations
are usually explained at the front of the book you're using).
How to find the article: see How
to Get an Article, or search the title in HOMER
or eJournal Locator.
Book
Example:
Kerman, Joseph. The Beethoven Quartets. New York: Norton, 1966.
This is a book.
Clues: title is italicized or underlined. Citation includes
place, publisher, and publication date.
How to find the book: look up the author or title in HOMER
to see if UConn owns the book. If we don't own it, try Document
Delivery / InterLibrary Loan.
Chapter or Essay in a Book
Example:
Solomon, Maynard. "Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: A Search for
Order." In Beethoven Essays, p. 3-32. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1988.
This is an essay in a book.
Clues: you have two titles: the essay (in quotes, indicating
that it's part of something bigger) and the book (italicized or
underlined), with just the relevant pages numbers listed. You have
place, publisher, and publication date, which also shows it's a
book.
How to find the book: look up the book's author or title
in HOMER If UConn doesn't
own it, try Document
Delivery / InterLibrary Loan.
Dissertation/Thesis
Example:
Campbell, Bruce. "Beethoven's Quartets, Opus 59: An Investigation
into Compositional Process." PhD dissertation, Yale University,
1982.
This is a dissertation (a book-length study written at the end
of one's doctoral studies).
Clues: citation looks like a book, but says "dissertation"
or "thesis," and has publication place (a university)
and year. Title may be in quotes, underlined, or italicized (practice
varies).
How to find the dissertation/thesis: look up the dissertation's
author or title in HOMER.
If UConn doesn't own it, try Document
Delivery / InterLibrary Loan. You can also read more about dissertations.
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