Always cite Britannica 2005 as your source when you use information from it in a report or research paper.
Tip: When you create a Note from a Britannica content window, Research Organizer automatically captures a citation for the content.
When you quote an article, name the article, the Britannica Library the article comes from, the Britannica software product, and the copyright, as shown in the following examples.
"United States." Britannica Student Encyclopedia, from Encyclopµdia Britannica Student Library CD. Copyright ⌐ 1994-2004 Encyclopµdia Britannica, Inc. May 30, 2004.
"Rabin, Yitzhak." Britannica Student Encyclopedia, from Encyclopµdia Britannica Student Library CD. Copyright ⌐ 1994-2004 Encyclopµdia Britannica, Inc. May 30, 2004.
Most images, video, and other media in Britannica Student Library CD cite a source: a photograph or artist, a media collection, and so on. If you use an image in a report, you'll need to collect all information and add it to your bibliography.
"Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri)," photograph by Michael C.T. Smith from The National Audubon Society Collection/Photo Researchers ùEB Inc., from Encyclopµdia Britannica Student Library CD. Copyright ⌐ 1994-2004 Encyclopµdia Britannica, Inc.
Here's how to cite material quoted from the dictionary or thesaurus:
Merriam-Webster's Student Dictionary, from Encyclopµdia Britannica Student Library CD. Copyright ⌐ 1994-2004 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
When you take notes using Research Organizer Notes, citing sources is easy. As soon as you select a Text or Image Note from a Britannica content window, a citation is automatically added to the Note.
For Notes from other types of sources (books, Web sites, etc.), Research Organizer provides citation "forms" where you can record information about the source.
In a Research Organizer report, each Note card that uses a source other than No Citation has a footnote. The footnote links to the appropriate citation in the list of End Notes.
You must be in a Note Card window or in Note Card View in Research Organizer.
Click the gold arrow next to Open Citation at the bottom of the window.
Tip: If you select No Citation, no form is available. Choose No Citation when you are using your own words, not referring to information you've read.
Click the drop-down list to the right of Close Citation. Hold down your mouse button and release it to select a form. Your choices are:
No Citation
Britannica Student Library CD
Internet/URL
Book
Periodical
Interview
Unpublished Work
Media
Custom Citation
Type information in the form fields. Citations are automatically saved with Notes.
Tip: Enter a Web site's URL (the http://www... location) into an Internet/URL citation to create a link from the Note to the Web site. The Launch button in the citation form always links to the URL you specify.
If you are citing outside sources (not Britannica Student Library CD) that you plan to use for other Notes, save each citation so that you won't have to retype the information. Click the drop-down box next to Uses: and select Save this source. The citation form with all the information you typed is saved in a special list of sources, and you can select it for any future Note.
In a Note window or in the Note Card view, instead of typing a new citation, click the drop-down box next to Uses at the bottom of the window. Select the previously saved source from the list. You must click and hold down the mouse-button to select from this list!
From the Research Organizer Edit menu, select Edit Citation Sources.
In the Edit Citation Sources window, select a saved source in the top pane.
If you wish, change the saved citation information in the lower pane. Changes affect future notes only.
Click Delete to remove selected sources you don't need.
Click New to add a new source to your list.
When you close the window, all changes are automatically applied.