LibGuides: ECON 3063: Women in Development Economics: Citing and Writing

Literature reviews

Literature reviews - UNC Writing Center
Explains what they are and why we make them
Literature review sample - Excelsior OWL
Provides a sample literature review
Research log
Try using a research log to keep track of what you've searched and what you want to try next. You can copy this to your Google Drive and adjust it to suit your needs.

How to cite your sources

Prof. Tolonen recommends American Sociological Association or Chicago author-date style.

American Sociological Association Style Guide by American Sociological Association Staff
Call Number: Lehman Reference (Non-Circulating) HM569 .A54 2014g
ISBN: 091276421X
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition by The University The University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff
ISBN: 9780226287058
Publication Date: 2017-09-05

Example ASA citations
Lots of different types of sources. From Cite Source/Trinity College.
Excelsior Online Writing Lab (OWL)
OWL has lots of general and subject-specific writing tips and techniques, along with research advice and detailed citation and formatting standards for the APA, MLA, and Chicago styles.

How to cite data

American Economic Review (AER) sample data references
These examples are based on the Chicago Manual of Style Author-Date system.

Here is the sample data set citation the ASA provides in American Sociological Review:

Deschenes, Elizabeth Piper, Susan Turner, and Joan Petersilia. Intensive Community Supervision in Minnesota, 1990–1992: A Dual Experiment in Prison Diversion and Enhanced Supervised Release [Computer file]. ICPSR06849-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2000. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06849.

Quick Guide to Data Citation
This is a handy resource from the International Association for Social Science Information Services Technology (IASSIST).
Guidance on Data Citations
Guidance for authors wishing to create data and code supplements, and for replicators, from Social Science Data Editors

Writing and research methods

The Economist's Handbook by Clyde Perlee (Editor); Thomas Wyrick
ISBN: 9780314028037
Publication Date: 1994-03-14

Writing Tips For Economics Research Papers
From Plamen Nikolov, Harvard University

The Craft of Research by Wayne C. Booth; Gregory G. Colomb; Joseph M. Williams; Joseph Bizup; William T. FitzGerald
ISBN: 9780226239569
Publication Date: 2016-10-19
This is a great book to refer to at any stage in the research process.

SAGE Research Methods Core
SAGE Research Methods provides a comprehensive picture of research methods (quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods) across the social and behavioral sciences. It includes more than 100,000 pages of SAGE book and reference material on research methods as well as selected material from SAGE journals.

ECON 3063: Women in Development Economics

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Literature reviews

How to cite your sources

How to cite data

Writing and research methods

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