BR Ch. 19, 20

Documenting your sources can help you achieve your purpose as a writer, such as establishing your authority and persuading your readers. if your readers find that you haven't documented your sources, they'll either suspect that you're careless or decide that you're dishonest. In either case, they won't trust what you have to say. MLA: this style, from the modern language association, is used primarily in the humanities-english phiosophy, linguistics, world languages, and so on. APA: this style, from the american psychological associaion, is used mainly in the social sciences-psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, education, and so on. With the exception of web style, key publication information is usually provided in a works cited list, reference list, or bibliography. these lists appear at the end of the docuent and include the following information about each source. author and / or editor, title, publication date, publisher and city of publication, periodical name, volume, issue, and page number, URL and access date.