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Citing a Learning Guide

The guides are edited by many different individuals, but published under the school. This means that the author will be the group author Jefferson Community and Technical College. 

The date can be found within the footer of the page. 

The title will be the title of the page within the Learning Guide. 

The site name will always be the name of the specific Learning Guide that you are using followed by the information below. 

You will then add Retrieved Month, Date, Year from where you'll need to provide the URL for the location

Example Citation for a Learning Guide

The citation for a JCTC Learning Guide will begin with the Jefferson Community and College as the author. 

Running Example:

Jefferson Community and Technical College. 


The date comes next within the citation. This can be found at the very bottom of the guide. 

Snip of Date

Running Example Continued: 

Jefferson Community and Technical College. (2020, November 10). 


For the title, use the name of the page that the information you are citing is located on. 

Snip of American Gov Guide with Arrow to page title

Running Example: 

Jefferson Community and Technical College. (2020, November 10). The Electoral College. 


Next, the name of the Guide will serve as the website name. 

Snip of AmerGov Guide with arrow to title of Guide

Running Example Continued: 

Running Example: 

Jefferson Community and Technical College. (2020, November 10). The Electoral College. American Government and Politics. 


Since the Learning Guides are continually updated, you'll want to include the date that you accessed the resource. 

Running Example Completed: 

Jefferson Community and Technical College. (2020, November 10). The Electoral College. American Government and Politics. Retrieved November 25, 2020 from 


The location or URL follows the access date. You can get this by copying (CTRL + C) the URL from the web address and pasting (CTRL + V) it into your citation. 

Snip of URL

Running Example Continued: 

Jefferson Community and Technical College. (2020, November 10). The Electoral College. American Government and Politics. Retrieved November 25, 2020 from https://jefferson.kctcs.libguides.com/americangovernment/electoralcollege