Assignment | Rogerian Argument (Reeves): Example Citations

2 Authors

Fetner, Hannah, and Shelie A. Miller. “Environmental Payback Periods of Reusable Alternatives to Single-Use Plastic Kitchenware Products.” International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, vol. 26, no. 8, Aug. 2021, pp. 1521–37. EBSCOhost, https://doi-org.lscsproxy.lonestar.edu/10.1007/s11367-021-01946-6.

3 or More Authors

Pickel, Gert, et al. "Covid-19-Related Conspiracy Myths, Beliefs, and Democracy-Endangering Consequences." Politics and Governance, vol. 10, no. 4S1, Dec. 2022, pp. 177-191. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A729934595/OVIC?u=nhmccd_main&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=40fd56b8.

You can find journal articles online, either as open access (deliberately free) or shared. There often won't be a premade citation tool to use, and the unwary may think they're looking at regular web article.

Example 1

Correct:

Gaub, Janne E. "Assessing the Utility of Body-Worn Cameras for Collegiate Police Agencies." Police Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 1, 16 Aug. 2021, pp. 118-148. https://doi.org/10.1177/10986111211037586.

Not Correct:

Gaub, Janne E. "Assessing the Utility of Body-Worn Cameras for Collegiate Police Agencies." Sage Journals, 16 Aug. 2021, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10986111211037586.

Discussion

Article link.

• Correctly identifying the source type: If you didn't know what to look for, you might try citing this as a regular online article, rather than a more credible journal article. Look for volume, issue, and journal names as clues. The articles themselves may have abstracts (summaries), specific section headers, and lots of citations, unlike normal articles.
  • But see Example 3 for an exception.
• Misleading citation provided: This citation was originally provided in APA format! It wasn't labeled as such -- I had to use previous knowledge (or comparison to other citations) to notice the differences and revise.

Example 2

Powell, Lisa M., et al. "Adolescent Exposure to Food Advertising on Television." American Journal of Preventive Medicine, vol. 33, no. 4S, 2007, pp. S251-S256. CiteSeerX, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2007.07.009.

Discussion

Article link to same location I viewed it.

• Author mix-up: The title page mentions co-author Szczypka but the actual first page of the article names Powell first, so she is the one who starts the citation.
• Which website? This one's been shared around a few times: the title page mentions PubMed as the source, but it has ResearchGate named on top of the title page, but when we look at the url, it's hosted on PSU's CiteSeerX. Since this is where I'm viewing the file, this is the site I'm naming in the citation.

Example 3

Not Ethical (Potentially):

Cao, Yingnan, et al. "Effect and Environmental Behavior of Microplastics in Soil." Waste Management & Research, 9 Aug. 2023, https://doi.org/10.1177/0734242X231190811

Discussion

Article link.

• Full article isn't available: You should not cite a source you haven't actually looked at, and in this case, we can only see the summary. The next step needs to be using the library to get a copy (either we have it or you can do an interlibrary loan request) or to keep researching.
• Wait, why does this one look like a web article? There's no volume/issue information because this particular article has been published "online first": it hasn't been released yet as part of the journal's sequence of releases.

Bolton, Kenneth, and Joe Feagin. Black in Blue: African-American Police Officers and Racism, Taylor & Francis Group, 2004. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.lscsproxy.lonestar.edu/lib/lonestar-ebooks/detail.action?docID=182839.

Vaping: Effects and Solutions, American Academy of Pediatrics, 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.lscsproxy.lonestar.edu/lib/lonestar-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6320048.

Some books have an overall editor who has solicited others to write chapters for a shared theme.

Caution! This is the kind of situation premade citations aren't great at. You're more likely to just have a citation for the overall book, which isn't quite what we want.

Your citation will start with the chapter author, then the title of the chapter. After you do the book info (title, editor, publisher, date), you'll include the range of pages that that chapter spans.

Skulley, Carrie. "'You Should Smile More!' Gender and Press Coverage of Candidates During the 2016 Presidential Primary." Unconventional, Partisan, and Polarizing Rhetoric: How the 2016 Election Shaped the Way Candidates Strategize, Engage, and Communicate, edited by Jeanine E. Kraybill, Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2017, pp. 59-80. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.lscsproxy.lonestar.edu/lib/lonestar-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5171237.

Allen, Matthew. "Designing for Disability Justice: On the Need to Take a Variety of Human Bodies into Account." Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 10 Feb. 2021, https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/2021/02/designing-for-disability-justice-on-the-need-to-take-a-variety-of-human-bodies-into-account/.

"Benefits of Accessible Design." Section508.gov, General Services Administration, https://www.section508.gov/blog/benefits-accessible-design/.

Rush, Sharon, ed. "The Business Case for Digital Accessibility." W3C Web Accessibility Initiative, World Wide Web Consortium, 9 Nov. 2018, https://www.w3.org/WAI/business-case/.

You will not cite entire websites.

Create a citation for each page of the website you've pulled information from, instead.