Need help finding resources for citing a book I used

[sinkoman]

Pulled the book "A New History of Portugal" out of the library a week or two ago for some data. Wrote down what I needed, then noted down the name of the book, and the DDC number, expecting to come back at a later date to get the rest of the info required to cite the book.

But alas, I, in my vast expanse of idiocy I call a mind, did not remember to do so. Now I need to cite the book tonight, and can't find any way of searching for a book via its DDC index online. I've done this via ISBN before, but never DDC, so i'm stumped.

Need a bit of help. DDC index is 945.9 L

Hell, I don't even know if what i'm asking is possible. For all I know, the DDC only indexes data, and not individual books. Amirite?

Oh god, I hope i'm not :|

 

[Dekstar]

For a citation don't you need:
Authors name, Title of Book, Publisher, Date of Publish, etc.?

Most of this can be pulled from places like Amazon assuming the books are the same.

http://www.amazon.com/New-History-Portugal-H-Livermore/dp/0521095719/ref=sid_dp_dp

I cited a book just last night for university work, and couldn't actually find the date of publication in the text itself, but Amazon had it.

 

[sinkoman]

For a citation don't you need:
Authors name, Title of Book, Publisher, Date of Publish, etc.?

Most of this can be pulled from places like Amazon assuming the books are the same.

http://www.amazon.com/New-History-Portugal-H-Livermore/dp/0521095719/ref=sid_dp_dp

I cited a book just last night for university work, and couldn't actually find the date of publication in the text itself, but Amazon had it.

That's what I usually do, but Amazon gave me tonne of different Editions, none of which was the third, which was what I actually used.

I ended up just picking one of the sources on Amazon randomly. Doubt anybody will take the time to check, let alone possess the ESP it'd take to realize that I used a different book.

Pretty sure that the data I took from the Third edition is present in the second anyway.

 

[Pesmerga]

Protip: no one ever takes the time to check sources.





But if they do, and you lied, you're ****ed and that is called plagiarism and can get you into serious shit.

 

[sinkoman]

Protip: no one ever takes the time to check sources.





But if they do, and you lied, you're ****ed and that is called plagiarism and can get you into serious shit.

I've noticed that.

On off occasions, where i've been scrambling for sources (you know those stupid shit assignments where you need to surmount a preset source requirement?), i'll just type in something relevant to my topic into amazon, and just pick books off of the resulting list randomly.

 

[Dan]

I don't think you can find a specific book by the DDC. It would vary from library to library. But a search of Amazon and Chapters shows only one book with that title by H.V. Livermore. Published by Cambridge University Press - (1966)

You didn't bother to google the title or did you come to HL2.net as your first means of help??

 

[Eejit]

That's what I usually do, but Amazon gave me tonne of different Editions, none of which was the third, which was what I actually used.

I ended up just picking one of the sources on Amazon randomly. Doubt anybody will take the time to check, let alone possess the ESP it'd take to realize that I used a different book.

Pretty sure that the data I took from the Third edition is present in the second anyway.

Yeah if it's a different edition of the same book nobody's gonna do you for plagiarism. Even if they want to you could easily pass it off as a simply mistake.
The most important thing is citing the author, edition is probably least important.