You can follow the citation style used in the American Political Science Review.
You can use others. Each magazine sets its own requirements. (APSR is an outstanding
journal for political scientists.) You can find electronic copies of the journal by going to
the library’s web page http://sageunix.uvm.edu/Collections/ then select “General
Reference” then select “Journals and Magazines” then select “JSTOR” then enter JSTOR
and select “browse the journal” then select “political science” then select “American
Political Science Review” then choose a volume and an issue and finally… select “view
article”. Alternatively, you can follow the style of footnotes presented in the Chicago
You will see that the APSR uses parenthetical references to the author and the date
in the body of the text. Then the complete citation for each reference is listed in
interview. If you have not personally interviewed General X, then the only way that you
can know what he believed is from reading someone else’s work. You may not take credit
for the work someone else did. You must cite your source.
If, however, you think General X should have thought that, or most likely thought
that, but you have no evidence and no sources, you may not write such a statement in a
scholarly paper. In this case, no one cares what you think General X should have thought.
Your assertion that the General thought something without offering any evidence is
merely a figment of your imagination. Do not try to suggest that figments of your
imagination are the result of scholarly research.
You cannot submit a “paper” that is merely a string of quotes from various sources.
When you write a paper, your thesis (the argument you make to answer your research
question) should reflect your own (original) thinking. You should arrive at your thesis as
a result of piecing together the evidence/data you have compiled. You must do the work
for your paper. You must evaluate, analyze, and offer judgments on the evidence you
offer – and your evaluations must be based on the accumulated evidence, not wishful
thinking.
Your sources must be varied. Reading several Internet pages does not constitute
careful, scholarly research. Your research sources should include scholarly, journalistic,
and primary materials.
Scholarly sources include books and journal articles. You can search for books
related to your topic on Voyager at http://voyager.uvm.edu/. Only reading books,
however, is not good enough. Books often take much longer than journal articles to
publish and therefore the information found in books is frequently less current than the
information found in journal articles.
Journalistic sources include the LADB, newspapers, and magazines. Newspapers
such as the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor,
The Economist are all good sources for international news. If you can read the language
of the country you are studying, then consult the major newspapers from that country on
the Internet.
Primary materials include official documents, government hearings, treaties, State
Department bulletins, speeches, memoirs, interviews, World Bank and International
Monetary Fund statistics, government statistics.
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