[nabs-l] citation question

[James Hulme]

*Type of Entry**Reference List**Reference Citation in Text*Data retrieved
from a database (e.g., poll questions and results)

*Gallup, C.N.N., U.S.A. Today Poll, February 9-12, 2004*. Poll questions
retrieved July 9, 2004, from LexisNexis Academic database.
(Gallup, C.N.N., U.S.A., 2004)


On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com>wrote:

> The citations are APA style. I have cited this statistic before too,
> but always had to give secondary sources like the NFB website or other
> articles who have quoted the statistic. I am sending this to a
> prestigious psychology journal and most of the papers they publish
> cite only academic sources (not usually organization websites), so I'm
> hoping to find the original primary source if I can.
> Best,
> Arielle
>
> On 5/13/13, Bridget Walker <bridgetawalker13 at aol.com> wrote:
> > At the very least you can create a citation without giving an author. It
> > will be credible because I have used the statistic in a paper. Are your
> > citations in MLA or APA?
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > On May 13, 2013, at 4:34 PM, Mary Fernandez <trillian551 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Probably Chris Danielsen would know at least where to look.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 5/13/13, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> No sources are listed on the fact sheet. Does anyone know who at
> >>> national would be coordinating this information?
> >>> Arielle
> >>>
> >>> On 5/13/13, Elizabeth Mohnke <lizmohnke at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> Hi Arielle ,
> >>>>
> >>>> Have you tried contacting someone from the national center about this?
> >>>> It
> >>>> would seem to me that whoever wrote the factsheet would have the
> >>>> original
> >>>> source for this information. Although, I am rather surprised that the
> >>>> source
> >>>>
> >>>> for this information is not listed on the factsheet itself.
> >>>>
> >>>> Good luck,
> >>>> Elizabeth
> >>>>
> >>>> --------------------------------------------------
> >>>> From: "Arielle Silverman" <arielle71 at gmail.com>
> >>>> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 3:52 PM
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> >>>> Subject: [nabs-l] citation question
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi all,
> >>>>> I'm unsure if any of you know the answer to this, but hoping that you
> >>>>> could either find the answer for me or send this to someone who would
> >>>>> know. On the NFB website there is a fact sheet about blindness, which
> >>>>> states that according to a recent Gallup poll, blindness is the third
> >>>>> most feared "disease" among Americans, surpassed only by AIDS and
> >>>>> cancer. I've heard that statistic several times but can't find the
> >>>>> citation for the actual Gallup poll where this was reported. I'd like
> >>>>> to include this statistic in an academic article I am writing about
> >>>>> blindness simulations and it would be great if I could cite the
> >>>>> original Gallup poll. Could anyone please send me the primary
> citation
> >>>>> for this fact, or at least an academic source where this fact is
> >>>>> stated? Thanks!
> >>>>> Arielle
> >>>>>
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> >> --
> >> Mary Fernandez
> >> "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will
> >> forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them
> >> feel."
> >> —
> >> Maya Angelou
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