Finding What You Need in the Library

Objectives

After attending this workshop, you will be able to:• Identify where to locate print copies of style

manuals in the Library• Identify where to look for a cited source on the

USF Libraries web page to determine if the Library has it

• Identify a citation for a book, book chapter, and a journal article

• Identify how to obtain the source cited if the Library does not own it

Style manuals @ the Library

• USF Libraries Cataloghttp://usf.catalog.fcla.edu/sf.jsp

• Find It!

On the main page of the library website

www.lib.usf.edu

Style manuals on the library web site

• Research Tools > Citing Sources

– RefWorks & EndNote

– APA, MLA, Chicago

– Other Citing Help

Identify a citation for a book, book chapter, and a journal article

• APA – Used for disciplines in the Sciences

• MLA – Used for disciplines in the Humanities

BOOK

• APALast name, A. A. (Date). Title of book. Place of

publication: Publisher.

• MLALast name, First name. Title of Book. Place of

publication: Publisher, Date. Medium of publication.

BOOK CHAPTER

• APAAuthor, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date). Title of chapter.

In A. A. Editor & B. B. Editor (Eds.), Title of book(pages of chapter). Place of publication: Publisher.

• MLAAuthor, A.A. Title of book. Ed. Editor name (first

then last) Place of publication: Publisher, Date of publication. Print.

SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ARTICLE

• APAAuthor, A.A. (Year). Title of article. Journal Title,

volume, pages.

• MLAAuthor(s). “Title of article. ”Journal title volume.

issue (Year): pages. Medium of publication.

Identify where to look for a cited source in the USF Library

• Books - USF Libraries Catalog

• Book Chapters - USF Libraries Catalog

• Scholarly Journals – USF Libraries Catalog for print and electronic journals

• E-Journals

• Google Scholar

Identify how to obtain the itemif the Library does not own it

Services > InterLibrary Loan

• InterLibrary Loan aka ILLiad

– http:lib.usf.edu/ill/