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STYLE GUIDE FOR HISTORY PAPERS
Format
Type
your paper in a normal-sized font (Times New Roman 12, Couri
Double-space
your text (except for indented quotations).
•
Do
not
skip lines between paragraphs.
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Set your
margins
at one inch all around (left and right, top and bottom).
•
Staple
your paper in the upper left corner (please do not use plastic covers).
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Number your pages
(centered at the bottom of each page, or the in the top right corner).
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Proofread
your paper to correct spelling, grammatical, and typographical errors.
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Make sure all your
verb tenses
agree. Basic past tense is usually the way to go.
Title Page
Your paper should have a title page on
which you center your title vertically
on the page. In a block on the
right, list your name, the course name and number, inst
ructor’s name, and date of submission. Do not
number the title page. Begin page
numbering on the first page of text.
Bibliography
All papers must include a bibliography listing all the sources you used to write the paper. The bibliography
is a separate page and it gets a page number. S
ee page 3 for examples of how to list sources in a
bibliography.
Citations
You must provide a citation (reference note) ever
y time you do one of the following three things:
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Use a
direct quotation
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Paraphrase
the words or ideas of another writer (i.e. put something in your own words).
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Assert as fact
any information that is not widely-known
Most students realize that they must cite direct quotations, but some do not know that they must also cite
paraphrases. Anything you derive from the ideas of a
nother writer must be cited. You must also use
commo\\\2003, you must say where you got that information.