Answered By: Jon Allinder
Last Updated: Mar 03, 2022     Views: 591

When a Librarian asks for the citation for a source, we are looking for the complete reference list entry citation

The reference citation contains all of the information needed to track down an item, and tell what type of document it is.

In-text citations contains just the author and the year. Unfortunately, that is not enough information for us to locate an item.


Here is an example of an in-text citation, which includes only the author and the year:

(Orwell, 1949)
 

Here is an example of a reference citation, which shows all of the information needed to track down an item: 

Friel, C.J., Bond, I., & Lahoz, M. R. (2015). Improving Health Information Literacy of Early Adolescents Using a Lead Poisoning Curriculum. Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet, 19(3-4), 149-160. 


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