User:Auntieruth55/Conspiracies, Spies and Assassins course

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This is some of the material from the blackboard on Monday night. auntieruth (talk) 19:04, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

Using Citations[edit]

Using bare links is problematic.

  • Examples of web citation
    • <ref>National Archives (UK), [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/citizenship/struggle_democracy/getting_vote.htm ''The Struggle for Democracy''], Accessed 2 December 2015.</ref>
    • <ref>{{de icon}} Ebert, Jens-Florian. ''Feldmarschall-Leutnant Fürst zu Fürstenberg.'' ''[http://www.napoleon-online.de/AU_Generale/index.html Die Österreichischen Generäle 1792–1815].'' [http://www.napoleon-online.de/ <u>Napoleon Online: Portal zu Epoch</u>]. Markus Stein, editor. Mannheim, Germany. 14 February 2009 version. Accessed 5 February 2010.</ref>

Note the space between the web address and the text.

  • Google Books
    • These are as legitimate as those you find in a library, however, you'll need to go to the page that has the description of the book to get the publishing information: ALL google books have publishing info: Author name, Title of Book (in italics), link to section you've used etc. We must cite the material properly, and just typing in google books as the author is an inadequate citation. So it should like like this: <ref name=Carlyle539>[[Thomas Carlyle]], ''The French Revolution: A History,'' Thomas Dent Publishing, 1914, Volume 1, [https://books.google.com/books?id=43nSAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA539&dq=french+day+of+daggers&lr=&cd=1#v=onepage&q=539&f=false pp. 539–542]. Subsequent references to it would be <ref name=Carlyle539/>
    • If your citation has no numbered pages, link directly to the page:
    • <ref name=Malte-Brun1831>[[Conrad Malte-Brun]]. [http://books.google.com/books?id=OkcNAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA395 ''Universal Geography or a Description of all Parts of the World, on a New Plan: Spain, Portugal, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and Holland.''] A Black, 1831.</ref>
  • Citing something from JSTOR works the same way.
    • <ref>Matthew Shaw. ''Conclusion: The Legacy of the Republican Calendar.'' In <u>Time and the French Revolution: The Republican Calendar, 1789–Year XIV</u> (Vol. 78, pp. 145–154). Boydell & Brewer, 2011. Retrieved from [http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt81mw5.14 JSTOR] 2 December 2015 {{Subscription}}</ref>

Using the {{Subscription}} template shows that this database is available by subscription. It also applies to Fold3 and Ancestry.com subscriptions.

Using links[edit]

Also, you'll want to link your mentions of people. Put the [[ ]] around their names. Be sure that you actually link to the right person, however. Make sure your use of the name actually links to the article: for example, if the article refers to Sir Philip Francis, so you'd want to link it like this [[Philip Francis|Sir Philip Francis]] and it will look like this Sir Philip Francis in the article text.

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