Here are some helpful hints on how to cite your sources in a blog post. There are lot’s of options. Just remember, blogs are NOT MLA, but you MUST cite your sources, even when you are not directly quoting something. Not doing this is called...PLAGIARISM.
ALWAYS use the actual document source title, NEVER USE DOCUMENT A, ETC.
For example, you may have a line with awesome voice that you don’t want to mess up with a citation:
Come on, the guy conquered 2,000,000 square miles of land.1 Continue writing your blog post. Once you have finished typing your post, don’t forget to cite all sources that you have numbered in the post at the bottom of the entry. To include that cool little number for citation purposes, click on the Format tab at the top of Google Docs and select “Superscript”. The shortcut for this is: Command/Period. Another way to include evidence in your post can be seen below.
According to the “The Legend of the Helmet” by Lucius Flavius Arrianus:
“So extraordinary was the effect of this action that the water wasted by Alexander
was as good as a drink for every man in the army.”
Source: http://www.altmedia.net.au/
Make sure to include your reasoning for giving this evidence as you continue writing your post. The reasoning may even come BEFORE you quote. When including photos in your blog post, make sure to download the image to your desktop. Then, when in Google Docs, go to Insert at the top of the page and click, “Image.” Make sure to include your source information as seen above. We will NOT be formatting your posts, so make sure you are placing the image where you want it to be seen on the blog. Also, if you want something to be a paragraph, or center justified, or bolded, you MUST DO IT YOURSELF!
When citing your textbook, YES, YOU HAVE TO USE YOUR TEXTBOOK AS A SOURCE, use the title of the book. For example…
The text, History Alive!, explicitly states, “In time, Alexandria became one of the ancient world’s most important centers of trade and learning” (292).
1 The Chart of Alexander’s Legacy - Created by Various Sources
