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For each story in your class project, you MUST provide information about the source(s) that you use. In other words, you have to provide Bibliography information for each of your stories.

Printed Books Found Online

In general, the best sources to use for this class are books that have been published in traditional printed form, and which are now available in digital form on the Internet. When you are citing an online book, here is the information you need to provide:

Story Title: If you are using a specific story in a book, you need to give the title of the story, in addition to the title of the book. If you are citing the whole book, you do not need to cite a story title.

Book Title: You must give the title of the book, in addition to the title of a specific story from that book.

Book Author: You need to provide the name of the author (or the editor) of the published book. (If the author of the individual story is different from the author of the book, you also need to give the name of the story's author.)

Year Published: You need to provide the year in which the book was published. This is not the date on which the webpage itself was published. Instead, you need the year in which the original printed book was first published.

Web Source: If you are citing Bibliography information on a webpage, you need to use the URL (webpage address) to create a clickable link that goes directly to the story you are citing. If you are sending the Bibliography to the instructor in an email, do not create a link; just paste in the webpage address.

Link format (use this for Bibliography you are publishing online)
Web Source: Sacred Texts Archive.
(this is a clickable link, with link text that is underlined, and which goes to the webpage address)

Email format (use this for Bibliography you are sending via email)
Web Source: http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/ift/ift16.htm
(this is not a link; it is simply the webpage address pasted into the email)

Story Bibliography example: You can arrange the information in any way that you want, provided all the information is there. Here are two different examples that present the same information:

"The Gold-Giving Serpent" by Joseph Jacobs, from Indian Fairy Tales (1890). Web Source: Sacred Texts Archive.

Story: The Gold-Giving Serpent
Author: Joseph Jacobs
Book: Indian Fairy Tales
Year Published: 1890
Web Source: Sacred Texts Archive

Book Bibliography example: If you are citing an entire book, you will not include a story title.

Indian Fairy Tales, by Joseph Jacobs (1890). Web Source: Sacred Texts Archive.

Book: Indian Fairy Tales
Author: Joseph Jacobs
Year Published: 1890
Web Source: Sacred Texts Archive

Offline books. I strongly prefer that you use online sources for this class, so that everybody can have access to your sources. If you are going to be using a printed source that is not found online, please check with me first. If you are using a printed source, the bibliography entry will not contain a web source but you will need to provide page numbers, since page numbers are an important part of the citation for a printed book (page numbers are not relevant in a web source citation).

Internet-Only Sources

In some cases, you may be using a website as a source that is an Internet-only source, with material that was not originally published in book form. If you are using an Internet-only source, here is the information you need to cite:

Story Title: For most assignments in these classes, you will be retelling a specific story in your own words, and you need to provide the title of the story in the Bibliography.

Website Name: You need to provide the name of the website. Please note that the name of the website is not always the same as the website address. For example, the website at this address, www.maicar.com , is actually named "Greek Mythology Link Website." I strongly encourage the use of Wikipedia in this class; for mythology and folklore topics, it is a very useful resource. If the name of a specific author is provided at the website, please list the author's name in your Bibliography!

Web Source: This should be a clickable link that allows the user to reach the page that displays the story you have cited. When you are providing the bibliography as part of a webpage, make sure that the story link is a clickable link and that you use link text; do not just use the URL (address) as the text for the link.

Two Examples: You can arrange the information in any way that you want, provided all the information is there. Here are two different examples that present the same information:

"Death of Little Mikey" by Barbara Mikkelson. Web Source: Urban Legends Reference Pages.

Story: Death of Little Mikey
Author: Barbara Mikkelson
Web Source: Urban Legends Reference Pages

Please be careful when using Internet-only sources. In general, it is much better to use previously published material that is being reproduced on the Internet. If you are going to use an Internet-only source, do the Bibliography first in order to make sure you can find the information you will need. If you cannot find the information you need to do the bibliography (website name, author, etc.), then you should save yourself some time and trouble and find a different webpage to use as your source. Don't waste your time with a website that is not going to be able to give you the bibliography information that you need.

Oral Sources. You may choose to collect stories from oral sources if you are working on local legends (for example, OU legends, Oklahoma legends, etc.). When you do this, there is a different kind of bibliography format you will need to follow. You need to provide the name of your source, along with any pertinent information (such as the name of your source, their occupation if it is relevant to the story, your relationship if that is relevant, along with the age or approximate age of your source). You must also provide the date when you collected the story. Here is a sample:

Story told by Joe Hilter to Megan Dilley on November 13, 2003. Joe Hilter, age 78, was an employee at the University of Oklahoma during the years 1950-1992 and is the grandfather of Megan Dilley.

Films. In general, films are not acceptable as a source for stories in this class. Sometimes, however, you might want to discuss a film in the Author's Note for a story, comparing the traditional version of the story with the film version. If you discuss a film in the Author's Note, you will need to cite the film in your Bibliography. When citing a film, please include the title of the film and the year it was produced, along with the names of the director(s) and the screenwriter(s). The easiest way to find this information is to look up the film at the IMDB website.