Step 3 – Cite Your 2 Sources
1) Place a heading at the top of your page to include:
- Your Name
- Course Title
- Professor’s Name
- Assignment Title
- Today’s Date
2) Name your topic. For example, Iron Work. (See Step 1 if you have forgotten your topic.)
3) Create Chicago Style bibliographic citations for each of your sources. Do not use citation generators or the citations provided by JSTOR or EBSCO. They frequently contain errors.
4) Format your citations with single spacing and hanging indentation as shown here.
Carney, Judith. “Landscapes of Technology Transfer: Rice Cultivation and African Continuities. “Technology and culture 37, no. 1 (January 1, 1996): 5-35. https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.umgc.edu/stable/3107200
Reminder: For the link, use a stable URL if available. Otherwise, use the URL in the address bar at the top of your browser.
To format for hanging indentation, you have two options:
Option 1: Manual Formatting:
- Shift+Enter where the line naturally ends.
- Tab for the second line.
- Repeat for any remaining lines.
Option 2: Automatic Formatting:
- hover your mouse over any word without red underlining in your citation (Red underlining will prompt spell-check rather than formatting.)
- right click
- select Paragraph
- under Indentation, select Special
- select Hanging
- if .5″ is not the pre-selected indentation, enter .5
- click OK
5) Alphabetize your sources by last name.
6) Use the rubric at the end of Submit Your Assignment as a checklist while you work and again before you turn it in.
If you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to ask your professor.
Assignments must be submitted as a Word document. This means that the file name will end in .doc or .docx as in the following example: Johnson_Step_3.doc
7) When you have completed and proofread your work, submit your work for feedback and grading as a .doc or .docx.
