How to Cite Archival Material ? How to Cite an Online Translated Text ? MN Considers Bill For Trackers On Stolen Vehicles, But Some Cite Privacy Concerns

 

How to Cite Archival Material ? 

How to Cite an Online Translated Text ?

MN Considers Bill For Trackers On Stolen Vehicles, But Some Cite Privacy Concerns 

As with published material, you must cite archival sources used in your research, whether you are making reference to a source, paraphrasing or quoting from it directly or reproducing an image. It is important to know in advance the information you will need for your citations so that you can make adequate notations of your sources while conducting your research. The following examples show you how to cite different types of material you will encounter in the Archives. 

Example of a citation

Location Reference

A) Name of repository

B) Title of fonds[tool tip] or collection[tool tip]

C) Reference designation (numerical designation for physical and intellectual control). In the SFU Archives, this will be a set of numbers such as F-1-2-3-4-5.

         In this example, F-1 refers to the fonds

           -2 refers to the series

           -3 refers to the sub-series

           -4 refers to the sub-sub-series

           -5 refers to the file

Document description

D) Either quote the exact title of the document or provide a description of the specific item if there is no title. 

E) Include date and page number if available.

Examples

1. Letter without a title:

Simon Fraser University Archives. Halpern Family fonds, F-58-2-0-0-9. Paul Kirby to Ida Halpern. 22 July 1954.

Simon Fraser University Archives. SFU Office of the President fonds, F-27-3-3-0-32. Brian Funt to K. Strand. 6 August 1968.

2. Excerpt from minutes:

Simon Fraser University Archives. East Enders Society fonds, F-59-1-0-0-2. Minutes of meeting of East Enders Society. 24 February 1965.

3. Transcript of interview:

Simon Fraser University Archives. Women's Labour History collection, F-67-1-0-0-36. Transcript of interview of Lil Stoneman; Sara Diamond, interviewer. 1979.

4. Document with title:

Simon Fraser University Archives. East Enders Society fonds, F-59-6-0-0-1. "The Downtown Eastside Women's Centre," (pamphlet), p. 2. May 1991.

How to Cite an Online Translated Text ?

When writing documents for your business -- especially if your business requires academic work -- you need to understand citation styles. There are many different citation styles, but the three major ones include the Modern Language Association style, the American Psychological Association style or the Chicago style. All three styles require the same information from a translated online source, but which one you pick depends on your needs.

MLA

Retrieve publication information from the website that hosts the text. MLA does not require the URL, but you need the website's name, the website's publisher if one exists, the name of the text as it appears in the Web page, as well as the name of the individual who translated the text.

Get the publication's date information from the Web page. Typically, Web authors place the date at the beginning of an essay or at the end of a page in a footnote. However, there may be no publication date. If not, you can still cite the source using special notation.

Compose your citation. If you found no publication date, place "n.d." in the date location. If you found no publisher information, place "n.p." in the publisher location. Use the following MLA template for this citation, but remember to italicize the website name and input the latest date on which you accessed the source in the "Accessed" location:

Author. "Title." Translator. Website. Publisher, year. Web. Accessed.

Construct a citation using your source. The following example uses the MLA template to construct an MLA citation for a translated online source:

Plato. "Gorgias." Trans. Benjamin Jowett. sacred-texts.com. C. Scribner's Sons, 1871. Web. 20 June 2012.

Again, remember to italicize the website's name, in this case "sacred-texts.com."

APA

Gather publication data, including publication dates, author, title and translator.

Follow the following template for APA citation for online sources:

Author (Date of publication). Title. (Name of translator). Publisher. Available from http://www.address.com

Construct an APA citation using this sample template:

Plato (1871). Gorgias. (Benjamin Jowett, Trans.). New York: C. Scribner's Sons. Available from http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/plato/gorgias.htm

Make sure to italicize the title field, in this case "Gorgias."

Chicago

Compile publication an author information from the source, including the translator and publisher names.

Follow the template for Chicago style citations, where "Title" should be italicized and "address.com" represents the sources URL:

Author. Title. Translator. (Publisher and Publication Date), access date, http://address.com

Construct a Chicago style citation using this sample template:

Plato. Gorgias. trans. Benjamin Jowett. (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1871), accessed June 6, 2012, http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/plato/gorgias.htm.

MN Considers Bill For Trackers On Stolen

 Vehicles, But Some Cite Privacy Concerns?

ST. PAUL (WCCO) — Minnesota legislators are considering a bill that would give police more access to track stolen cars.

“It allows law enforcement or police officers to put a tracking device on a stolen vehicle, a vehicle that’s reported stolen,” said DFL Rep. Cedrick Frazier, a co-author of the proposal.

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Frazier says the proposal is intended to reduce the number of dangerous, high-speed police chases.

The idea is that officers would attach GPS tracking devices instead of chasing, then they’d be allowed to track the vehicle for 24 hours.

The bill doesn’t mention chases or any other specific situations. It says police would be allowed to use mobile tracking devices on any stolen car.

The broad language worries Rich Neumeister, a privacy advocate.

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“We’re not talking about a car chase where it’s imminent danger,” he said. “Maybe it’s just a car sitting on private property.”

When asked how he would change the bill, Neumeister said, “Put some barriers there. Just say ‘exigent circumstances only.'”

Neumeister questions if the proposal as written raises issues concerning the 4th Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches.

Frazier believes the bill will help end police pursuits, as it is designed to do.

“If we can do public safety smarter or law enforcement smarter, we should always take the opportunity to do that, and I think this bill gives us an opportunity to do that,” he said.

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Under current law, police must either have a warrant or consent from the vehicle owner to use mobile tracking technology.