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Citing Your Sources is Important:

  • Academic Honesty: Proper citation demonstrates honesty by giving credit to original authors, preventing plagiarism, and avoiding severe academic consequences.
  • Credibility: It adds credibility to your work by showing your ideas are supported by expert opinions, enriching your arguments.
  • Contribution to Knowledge: Citing sources places you within the scholarly conversation, contributing to the ongoing development of knowledge.
  • Skill Development: Learning to cite correctly enhances critical thinking, research, and writing skills, benefiting your academic and professional journey.

When In Doubt: Cite It!

Academic citation styles are standardized formats for documenting sources used in scholarly writing. They ensure consistency, give credit to original authors, and allow readers to locate the sources. Common citation styles include:

  • APA (American Psychological Association): Used in psychology and social sciences, emphasizes author-date citations.
  • MLA (Modern Language Association): Used in humanities, especially literature and languages, emphasizes author-page citations.
  • Chicago: Offers two systems, Notes and Bibliography (used in humanities) and Author-Date (used in sciences).
  • IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers): Used in engineering and technical fields, emphasizes numbered references.

Each style dictates specific rules for formatting in-text citations, footnotes, endnotes, and bibliographies.

Standard APA Citation Formats

APA Format

Book:

Author, A. A. (Publication Year). Italicized Title. Publisher.

ex. Caraco, J. (2024). Holding It Together. Portfolio/Penguin.

Journal:

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume number(issue number), pages. https://doi.org/xx.xxx/yyyy

ex. Dorson, J. (2013). Demystifying the Judge: Law and Mythical Violence in Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian.” Journal of Modern Literature,                                          36(2), 105–121. https://doi.org/10.2979/jmodelite.36.2.105

Website:

Author, A. A., & Author, B.B. (Year, Month Date). Title of webpage. Name of Website. URL

ex. Zitron, E. (2024, July 28). How Does AI Survive. Where's Your Ed At. https://www.wheresyoured.at/to-serve-altman/

In-text:

(Author Last Name, Publication Year)

ex. A meta-analysis of available literature (Jones, 1998) revealed inconsistency across large-scale studies of student learning (Table 3).

Further examples of in-text citations found here

Standard MLA Citation Formats

MLA Format

Book:

Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Year of Publication.

ex. Caraco, Jess. Holding It Together. Portfolio/Penguin, 2024.

Journal:

Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal, Volume, Issue, Year, pages.

ex. Dorson, James. "Demystifying the Judge: Law and Mythical Violence in Cormac McCarthy’s 'Blood Meridian.'" Journal of Modern Literature, vol.    36, no. 2, 2013, pp. 105-121. https://doi.org/10.2979/jmodelite.36.2.105.

Website:

Author. "Title of Webpage." Title of Entire Site. Distributor of Website, Date Published, URL (without http://). 

ex. Zitron, Ed. "How Does AI Survive." Where's Your Ed At, 28 July 2024, https://www.wheresyoured.at/to-serve-altman/.

In-text:

(Author Page Number)

ex. A meta-analysis of available literature (Jones 1998) revealed inconsistency across large-scale studies of student learning (Table 3).

Further examples of in-text citations found here

Chicago Format

Book:

Author's Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. City of Publisher: Publisher, Year.

Ex. Caraco, Jess. Holding It Together. New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2024.

 

Journal Article:

Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Journal volume number, issue number (Year): page numbers. URL or DOI if available.

Ex. Dorson, James. "Demystifying the Judge: Law and Mythical Violence in Cormac McCarthy’s 'Blood Meridian.'" Journal of Modern Literature 36, no. 2 (2013): 105-121. https://doi.org/10.2979/jmodelite.36.2.105.

 

Website:

Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Webpage." Website Name. Date of Publication or Last Update. URL.

Ex. Zitron, Ed. "How Does AI Survive." Where's Your Ed At. 28 July 2024. https://www.wheresyoured.at/to-serve-altman/.

Further examples Chicago Style elements

IEEE Format

Book:

 

[1] Author(s), Title of Book, xth ed. City of Publisher, (only U.S. State), Country: Publisher, Year.

Ex. [1] J. K. Author, Introduction to Electronics, 2nd ed. New York, NY, USA: ABC Publishing, 2020.

 

Journal:

[1] Author(s), "Title of Paper," Abbrev. Journal Name, vol. x, no. x, pp. xxx-xxx, Month, Year.

Ex. [1] A. B. Author and C. D. Author, "Title of Paper," IEEE Trans. on Communications, vol. 58, no. 6, pp. 1234-1245, Jun. 2020.

 

Website:

[1] Author(s) or Organization, "Title of Webpage," Website Name. [Online]. Available: URL. [Accessed: Month Day, Year].

Ex. [1] E. Zitron, "How Does AI Survive," Where's Your Ed At. [Online]. Available: https://www.wheresyoured.at/to-serve-altman/. [Accessed: Jul. 28, 2024.]

 

Further examples of IEEE Style elements

All persons are expected to present and represent their own original work and to fully and properly credit sources of information used in the preparation of their own original work.

Guidance for Use of AI

  • Follow institutional guidelines on the academic use of AI.
  • Follow instructor guidance per course syllabi.
  • Do not use AI to complete assignments for which you are being evaluated.
  • Appropriate use may change depending on assignment, use AI to enhance learning, not as a shortcut.
  • If using always verify output using other sources.

Further Resources

Citation Managers

A citation manager is a software tool that helps users organize, manage, and format citations for research and writing. It allows users to collect and store bibliographic information, generate citations and bibliographies in various citation styles, and integrate with word processing software to streamline the process of citing sources and creating reference lists. Popular citation managers include Zotero, EndNote, and Mendeley.

Plagiarism Checkers

Plagiarism is the act of taking another individual's work and using it as your own. Anytime you paraphrase, summarize, or take words, phrases, or sentences from another individual's work, it is good idea to indicate the source of the information in your paper as an internal citation. It is not enough to just list the source in a bibliography at the end of your paper. Failing to properly quote, cite or acknowledge someone else's words or ideas with an internal citation is plagiarism. It is very important to give credit to an individual's work by citing the work. Plagiarism is violating the U.S. Copyright Law. Such a breach of the U.S. Copyright Law can result in a disciplinary action or legal action against an individual committing the offense.

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Citation Help

Note:Computer generated citation tools may not be always correct. Be familiar with your citation manual and look for errors.