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About Citing Course Materials

To cite a lecture or other course materials, the author will be your instructor or whoever gave the lecture.

Note that the citation format differs for course materials retrieved online.

For each type of source in this guide, both the general form and a specific example will be provided.

The following format will be used:

Parenthetical Citation - entry that appears in the body of your paper.

Works Cited - entry that appears at the end of your paper.

Information on citing and several of the examples were drawn from the MLA Handbook (7th ed.)

Numbers in parentheses refer to specific pages in the manual.

Lecture (203)

This format is typically used if you would like to make reference to lecture notes from one of your classes.
 
General Format 
 
In-Text Citation:
(Lecturer Surname)
 
Works Cited:

Lecturer Surname, First Name. "Lecture Title." [if any] Meeting or Class Name. Location of Lecture. Date of Lecture [Day Month Year]. Format.

  
Example 
 
In-Text Citation:
(Rennie)
       
Works Cited:

Rennie, Elizabeth. "Library Instruction." English 1110. Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC. 27 Sept. 2011. Lecture.