Glossary of Selected Terms
Annotation |
Brief summary of or your personal thoughts on a source. Can be added to the end of a citation. |
Date Accessed |
The month, day, and year a work was accessed or reviewed online. |
Electronically Published |
The date (month, day, year) a work was published online. Not always shown on a webpage. |
Place of Publication |
The city, state, or country of the publisher. Depending on the style, you may or may not need this information. |
Publisher/Sponsor |
Organization or individual that facilitated the publishing or sharing of a source. |
Suffix |
Abbreviation tagged on to the end of a name that provides additional information about a person. This includes suffixes like Jr., Sr., II, etc. |
Title |
The title is what the work you are citing is called. If there is no title, some styles ask for a description of the source instead. |
URL |
URL is an acronym for Uniform Resource Locator. It is how you find a page on the internet; the address of the web page. http://www.citethisforme.com/ is a URL example |
Medium |
The form in which a work was shared or published. Here is one example.
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Contributor |
Either a person, group, or organization that contributed to a piece of work. This includes, but is not limited to, an editor, writer, performer, interviewer, and director. |
Author |
Person who originally wrote or made a book, blog, poem, play, article, podcast, digital image, etc. |