In your themes list, you will see that Professor Taylor has included some article starting points. This is very helpful! You get an insight into what a great article about this topic is, and you get to use the references in that article to find more great sources.
First, you need to decide if something is a book or an article.
A citation for a book will have the author, the book title (often in italics) and the publisher:
Bursik, Robert J., Jr. and Harold G. Grasmick. 1993. Neighborhoods and Crime: The Dimensions of Effective Community Control. New York: Lexington Books.
A citation for an article will usually be longer. There will be the author(s) name, the title of the article (usually in quotation marks) and then the name of the publication (journal, magazine, or newspaper) (usually in italics) the article came from:
Aseltine, Robert H., Jr. and Ronald C. Kessler. 1993. “Marital Disruption and Depression in a Community Sample.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 34(3):237-51.
You can search for the book in our catalog on www.lib.utexas.edu (blue search box > Catalog tab).
For articles, search our Journals tab for the title of the publication to see if we have it electronically or in print. You'll need to check the correct volume, issue and date.
Try this! Sometimes you can just copy and paste part of the citation into scoUT, a tool that searches across our databases. Doesn't always work!
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