Step 1: Find an article you like? Check the works cited/references/footnotes/bibliographies - where did this author get her evidence?
Step 2: Copy the citation - sometimes just the author and title is enough.
Step 3: Paste it into the search bar on www.lib.utexas.edu
Step 4: Found it? Email yourself a permanent link. Careful because links are not permanent unless they say so!
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All of the below citations are in different styles. Why are there so many different citation styles? I don't know. There are hundreds of them, believe it or not, and they all are built within a subject area that decides what elements are most important to those doing research in that area.
RAAT, W. Dirk, (2012) “World History, MesoAmerica, and the Native American Southwest by W. Dirk Raat”, History Compass 10/7 (2012): 537–548
I know this is an article because there are page numbers. The 10/7 refers to a volume and issue number. All periodicals (magazines, newspapers and journals) have volume and issue numbers.
When you see a title in quotation marks, it's likely an article...unless...
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