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How to Cite Course Packs, Manuals, & Readers
Course Packs & Manuals
A course manual is a collection of comments and other explanatory material written by the course instructor. Course manuals are mostly used for distance education courses, but you might find them used in an on-campus course as well. Treat a course manual like a book authored by the course instructor and published by the on-campus department that issued it (usually the University of Guelph Bookstore or Office of Open Learning).
Examples
APA
In your text
Failure to understand the principles of econometrics was a factor in 44% of small business failures in Canada last year (Stengos, 2003).
In your references
Stengos, T. (2003). ECON*460 Applied Econometrics course manual. Guelph, ON: University of Guelph Bookstore.
CBE (Name-Year Style)
In your text
Careful land cultivation is essential to the sustainability of civilization (Buck 2003).
In your references
Buck, J. 2003. BOT*1200 DE Plants and Human Use course manual. Guelph, ON: University of Guelph, Office of Open Learning.
CBE (Citation-Sequence style)
In your text
Careful land cultivation is essential to the sustainability of civilization[1].
In your references
[1] Buck, J. BOT*1200 DE Plants and Human Use course manual. Guelph, ON: University of Guelph, Office of Open Learning; 2003. 128 p.
MLA (see 4.6.7, 5th ed.)
In your text
With the advent of feminist thought, women began to see how history, or "His Story," had excluded them (Brown 2).
In your references
S. Brown. ENGL*3820DE Women Writing History course manual. Guelph, ON: U of Guelph, Office of Open Learning, 2004.
Course Readers
A course reader is a collection of articles, book chapters, or other material that has been put together specifically for your course, usually without any explanatory or introductory notes from the instructor.
Treat materials in your course reader as articles or chapters in an edited book, reprinted from another source. Use the name of the instructor(s) as editor(s), the bookstore (or other on-campus issuing source) as publisher, and the original date the course reader was issued for the date of publication. If the reader doesn't contain the instructor's name, use the department as editor. If there is no date of issue, use the current semester and year for the date of publication. The full reference information for the original publication should be included either in the Table of Contents or the first page of the article you are referencing in the course reader.
Examples
APA
In your text
As Winston and Blais (2003, p. 1) point out, the concept of experimentation is a "cornerstone of psychological pedagogy" ...
In your references
Winston, A.S., & Blais, D.J. (2003). What counts as an experiment?: A transdisciplinary analysis of textbooks, 1930-1970. In M. Billig & H. Davis (Eds.), PSYCH*1100 Principles of Behaviour Course Reader (pp. 3-19). Guelph, ON: University of Guelph Bookstore. (Reprinted from American Journal of Psychology, 109[4], 599-616)
CBE (Name-Year style)
In your text
Since the Sheepshead minnow has a much higher temperature tolerance than any other type (Bennett and Beitinger 1997), it is the ideal species to...
In your references
Bennett WA, Beitinger TL. 1997. Temperature tolerance of the Sheepshead minnow. Copeia. 77-87. In: BIOL*2060DE Ecology Course Reader. Guelph: University of Guelph, Office of Open Learning. 2002; p. 163-173.
CBE (Citation-Sequence style)
In your text
Since the Sheepshead minnow has a much higher temperature tolerance than any other type[1], it is the ideal species to...
In your references
[1] Bennett WA, Beitinger TL. Temperature tolerance of the Sheepshead minnow. Copeia 1997; 77-87. In: BIOL*2060DE Ecology Course Reader. Guelph: University of Guelph, Office of Open Learning. 2002; p. 163-173.
MLA (see 4.6.7, 5th ed.)
In your text
Some critics argue that postmodernism has rendered serious literary scholarship impossible (Frye 29), and indeed...
In your references
Frye, Northrop. "Literary and Linguistic Scholarship in a Postliterate Age." PMLA 99 (1984): 990-95. Rpt. in ENGL*2100 Critical Theories Course Reader. Ed. D. Pennee. Guelph, ON: University of Guelph Bookstore, 2004. 28-33.
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