The Andover school district is making a concerted effort to teach students about academic integrity and how to avoid plagiarism in their work. This year, all schools have agreed to use EasyBib as a quick way to write citations and create a bibliography for research purposes. With an email address, students can create a free account on EasyBib that helps create and organize citations in the proper format.
For families who have iPads at home, the free EasyBib app is a great tool to have open while students are working on their projects and research papers. Including their completed citations within their research notes helps students keep organized and gives them more time to focus on making sure their projects are in their own words.
For reference purposes, Andover uses MLA 7 format. If you don’t have access to EasyBib, here are the basic guidelines for creating a Works Cited page in a Word document:
- Begin your Works Cited page on a separate page at the end of your research paper. It should have the same one-inch margins and last name, page number header as the rest of your paper.
- Label the page Works Cited (do not italicize the words Works Cited or put them in quotation marks) and center the words Works Cited at the top of the page.
- Double space all citations, but do not skip spaces between entries.
- Indent the second and subsequent lines of citations five spaces so that you create a hanging indent.
- List page numbers of sources efficiently, when needed. If you refer to a journal article that appeared on pages 225 through 250, list the page numbers on your Works Cited page as 225-50.
Click here for an example Works Cited page.
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