The following four sources I found on the NWI Times website. My research process I used was essentially just looking back on the websites archives to the past few years. These are all relatively recent, only going back two years, and they are reliable and accurate because they are in a reputable newspaper.
Benman, K. (2010, November 21). Statehouse a dead end for transit cash. nwi.com, Retrieved from http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/article_a79da9f6-8ec0-5976-9f1f-823eae99085a.html
Benman, K. (2009, November 5). State lawmakers unlikely to rescue mass transit . nwi.com, Retrieved from http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/article_9076b7e5-cc20-5acb-8a02-f2fd5418c2e2.html
Guinane, P. (2009, July 5). Nwi transit future up to tax-leery voters. nwi.com, Retrieved from http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/article_8b5dd586-1a03-5653-b271-eccd69d14629.html
Tejeda, G. (2009, September 23). Disabled residents complain mass transit is lacking . nwi.com, Retrieved from http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/article_522b5d65-a64b-5716-bf1b-fae5b9688a68.html
The articles above, as well as a few I did not use, led me to the NIRPC website, where I found this comprehensive plan for the Region over the next decade, one part of which deals with my topic. It is obviously authoritative because the NIRPC is in charge of this whole project. It is recent, update in June 2011. And it is reliable and accurate because the plan is a detailed and researched look at how every public work in the plan is now, and how they plan to expand them in the future.
Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Comission, (2011). Comprehensive regional plan 2040 Portage, IN: NIRPC. Retrieved from http://www.nirpc.org/2040CRP/Draft/DraftPlan.html
NOTE: I am not sure if this cite is fully the correct format. I considered this to be an online government document, but it does not seem to have some of the things such a document should have, such as the document numbers. Furthermore, each part of the plan is its own downloadable part, instead of opne whole long document. How should I cite this exactly?
Is the link you provided a direct link to the source you used for your text? If so, I would leave it exactly the way it is.
ReplyDeleteWhile readers do have an expectation of a certain format (i.e., the order in which the elements are placed) particular to the style being used, what's important in a citation is that your reader has all the elements s/he needs to go find the source. So, if you did that, you're good.
I'm going to assume you did that, so you are finished with this blog. Excellent work