Citing Your Sources

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Citing Your Sources

• LIB 120
• Amanda Izenstark

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Whats a Citation?

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Why Use Citations?

• Citing sources adds credibility to your research.
• Citing sources shows accountability for ideas.
• Citing sources gives an author or creator of a
  work credit for what he or she has done.

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Why Use Citations?

• Citing sources lets readers follow the evolution
  of an idea -- from your source, to your sources
  source, and so on.
• Citing sources shows academic honesty.
• Citing sources protects the writer from being
  accused of plagiarism!

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When to Use Citations

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Citation Formats

• Each discipline has its own particular format
• English MLA
• History Chicago / Turabian
• Psychology APA
• Sociology ASA
• Biology CBE
• And so on

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Citation Formats

• Your professors will usually specify which format
  you should use for their class.
• For this class, your citations should be in MLA
  format.

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Whats in a Citation?

• For a book, you need the following information

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Whats in a Citation?

• For a magazine or journal article

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Online Sources

• For articles from databases and Web sites, you
  also need to include

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Format Differences

• The main differences between the formats are
• The order of the information
• Capitalization
• Whether you need to use in-text citations,
  footnotes, or endnotes
• Whether you need a Bibliography, Works Cited,
  or References list

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Where to learn more

• The preferred place to look for citation
  information is in the specific handbook or
  manual.
• The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
  is kept at the Reference Desk.
• We also have manuals for other styles -- ask at
  the Reference Desk for more information.