Your final paper will contain at least 2000 wordswhich is very roughly seven double spaced pages worth of textplus your name, student ID number, date, descriptive title, references, and illustrations. Please don’t be short, nor too long either: target somewhere between 1950 and 2050 words of text.
Your final report will have at least five maps, charts, or other graphics that illustrate and enhance your report (that is, not just for decoration). You will insert these graphics directly into the Word document.
Your report will also include five additional references related to the general theme. These references may come from newspapers, reputable websites (e.g., not just somebody’s blog), or other reference materials other than encyclopedias and dictionaries (see Useful research resources,†above). Again, every one of these sources will be fully and appropriately referenced, in Chicago or some other standard style. You may use one or two articles that I assign for class, but you will have to research the rest for yourself. I will be glad to help you, if you start early but cannot find the materials you need.
All your research and every one of your illustrations must be fully and appropriately referenced, using the modified Chicago style specified here:Professor Miller’s modified version of the
Chicago Manual of Style
(based on the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. 2006.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.)
References
Online periodical, with an author
How to cite it in the text or after an illustration: (Sutton 2007)
How to write the reference at the end of the paper: Sutton, Jane. 2007. U.S. halts imaginary Cubans in security drill. Washington Post. Retrieved March 8, 2007: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/08/AR2007030800105.html
Online periodical, without an author named
How to cite it in the text or after an illustration: (Economist 2013)
How to write the reference at the end of the paper: Economist. 2013. Caution to the wind: How independence might threaten one of the SNP’s favourite industries. Feb 23: http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21572234-how-independence-might-threaten-one-snps-favourite-industries-caution-wind
Academic journal article, with an author or authors. Note that you use the same style whether you read the article online or on a paper copy.
How to cite it in the text or after an illustration: (Gonzalez and Falcon 2003)
How to write the reference at the end of the paper: Gonzalez, Arturo, and Juan Falcon. 2003. Competitive potential of tourism destinations. Annals of Tourism Research 30(3):720-740.
Website when you’re not sure when it was written.
How to cite it in the text or after an illustration: Central Intelligence Agency.
How to write the reference at the end of the paper: Central Intelligence Agency. The world factbook: Cuba. Retrieved March 8, 2007: https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/cu.html
Map or other graphic
How to cite it in the text or after an illustration: (University of Texas Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection)
How to write the reference at the end of the paper: University of Texas Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. Shaded relief map of Cuba, produced by the Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved April 12, 2007: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/cuba_rel94.jpg
Interview
How to cite it in the text or after an illustration: (Duran 2002)
How to write the reference at the end of the paper: Duran, Alejandro. 2002. Personal communication.
Book
How to cite it in the text or after an illustration: (Pattullo 1996)
How to write the reference at the end of the paper: Pattullo, Polly. 1996. Last Resorts: The Cost of Tourism In the Caribbean. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle.
Magazine article, paper copy, without an author named
How to cite it in the text or after an illustration: (Economist 2004)
How to write the reference at the end of the paper: Economist. 2004. Life in
Cuba: Small business just got smaller. October 16: 33-34.
Some general referencing notes
Include page number(s) only for quotations: for example, (Patullo 1996, 178) (Patullo 1996, 178-179)
Include the citation inside the period at the end of a sentence, like this (Miller 2014).