Citing Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center can be challenging. The following tips are designed to aid you in creating citations for Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center using NoodleBib.
When searching for information for a topic in Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, your results are presented in a series of tabs representing each type of resource.
Viewpoints tab may contain material from a variety of different sources
that were reprinted in an Opposing Viewpoints series and then viewed online.
These series can include:
At Issue
Contemporary Issues Companion
Current Controversies
Opposing Viewpoints
Opposing Viewpoints Digest
Before
beginning your citation, you need to determine the original source of the
material. Examples for each of the possible different sources are included
below.
| Original material | written expressly for an Opposing Viewpoints series, and then viewed in the online database. |
| Books | material reprinted from one book to an Opposing Viewpoints series, and then viewed in the online database. |
| Magazines | articles reprinted from a magazine to an Opposing Viewpoints series, and then viewed in the online database. |
| Academic Journals | articles reprinted from a journal to an Opposing Viewpoints series, and then viewed in the online database. Follow the examples for Magazines given below. |
| News | newspaper articles reprinted from a newspaper to an Opposing Viewpoints series, and then viewed in the online database. Follow the examples for Magazines given below. |
| Websites | a website or an article originally on a website that has been reprinted in an Opposing Viewpoints series. |
Viewpoint tab - Original material written expressly for an Opposing Viewpoints series.
| Chapter
title and author. |
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| Book
containing the chapter. Editor, publication city, publisher, and
copyright date is included. |
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| Information about the author. You do not need this for your citation. | |
Viewpoints tab - Material reprinted from another Book.
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Chapter title and author. Book containing this chapter. Editor, publication city, publisher, and copyright date is included. |
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| Information about the original book this material was reprinted from. | |
In NoodleBib you need to change from the default setting for a Book, to "Reprint
of material from one book to another".
Viewpoints tab - Material reprinted from a Magazine (use this example for Journal and Newspapers also)
| Chapter title and author. |
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| Book
containing the chapter. Includes editor, publication city,
publisher, and copyright date. |
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| Orignial magazine article this chapter was reprinted from. |
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| Information about the author. You do not need this for your citation. | |
In NoodleBib you will need to change from the default setting
for a Magazine, to "Reprint in a book".
Viewpoints tab - Material reprinted from a Website
| Chapter
title and author. Book containing the chapter. Editor, publication city, publisher, and copyright date is included. |
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Original website information from which this chapter was reprinted.
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