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How to cite your sources the way you want
Custom Source Types
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Write citation on paper
Choose (or create) Source Elements
Choose (or create) Source Type
Add source to Master Source List
How to create a properly-cited source in TMG
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Source Categories in TMG follow one of two standards:“Evidence” by Elizabeth Shown Mills“Cite Your Sources” by Richard S. LackeyOr one of your own making – Custom (OK,
three standards)“Evidence Explained” by Elizabeth Shown
Mills (2008)Archives fact sheets
State Records NSW Archives in Brief No. 10 – “Citing State Archives”
National Archives of Australia fact Sheet 7 – “Citing archival records”
What is a “properly-cited” source?
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Definition: “Source types specify which characteristics of the source are to be recorded, and how the footnotes and bibliography entries will be formatted.”1
Characteristics – title, author, publisher, date, publisher location, etc
Format – how to arrange these characteristics when citing the source – order, punctuation
1. Terry Reigel, A Primer for The Master Genealogist (Modbury, South Australia: Gould Genealogy, 2008), 46.
Source Types
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These are the characteristics of the source.
Source Groups = Source citation FIELDS
Source Elements = Source citation field LABELS
There are 32 Source Groups (fields) – can use each one only once, but in any order
Use Source Elements (labels) to make data entry easier when creating Source in Master Source List
Source Groups and Source Elements
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Full footnote – where you cite the source for a specific piece of information, includes “Citation Detail”
Short footnote – short version of full footnote for subsequent citations of same source, includes “Citation Detail”
Bibliography – list of sources at the end of the book, report, chart, etc.
Shown in Output form tab
Source Citations – 3 templates
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Hoffman, Lee H. (editor). Getting the Most out of The Master Genealogist. Modbury, South
Australia: Gould Genealogy, 2003.
Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Evidence Explained, Citing History Sources from Artifacts to
Cyberspace. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2007.
National Archives of Australia. Fact sheet 7 – Citing archival records. Website. http://
www.naa.gov.au/about-us/publications/fact-sheets/fs07.aspx, retrieved 17 May 2009.
Reigel, Terry. A Primer for The Master Genealogist. Modbury, South Australia: Gould
Genealogy, 2008. Reigel, Terry. Working with Source Elements and Groups. Website. Terry Reigel. Terry’s TMG
Tips. http://tmg.reigelridge.com/Source-Elements.htm: last updated 5 May 2006.
State Records New South Wales. Archives in Brief No. 10 – Citing State archives. Website.
http://
www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/guides-and-finding-aids/archives-in-brief/archives-i
n-brief-10
, retrieved 17 May 2009.
Bibliography