Citing Your Sources   Tags: bibliographies, citations, citing_sources, help, reference_lists, references, refworks  

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Publication manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th ed. - American Psychological Association

Call Number:
BF 76.7 P83 2010
Nanaimo
Cowichan
Powell River

APA style guide to electronic references - American Psychological Association

Call Number:
BF 76.7 P831 2007
Nanaimo
Cowichan
Powell River

Chicago manual of style online, 15th ed. - University of Chicago. Press.

Q&A content is fully searchable along with the content of the Manual. Also provides convenient tools, such as sample forms, letters, and style sheets.

MLA handbook for writers of research papers, 7th ed.

Call Number:
LB 2369 G53 2009
Nanaimo
Cowichan
Powell River

MLA style manual and guide to scholarly publishing

Call Number:
LB 2369 G444 2008
Nanaimo
Powell River

Scientific style and format: the CSE manual for authors, editors, and publishers, 7th ed. - Council of Science Editors. Style Manual Committee

Call Number:
T 11 S386 2006
Nanaimo

 

Citing your references can be time-consuming, but here's why it's important:

1. Citing your sources helps you to avoid plagiarism. 

2. Readers can go back and look at your sources if they'd like to follow up or read further. 

3. By demonstrating how widely you've researched a topic, your own arguement ends up being more credible.  Citations can show you've considered a wide variety of opinions when forming your own arguement. 

4. Citing is standard practice in academic conversations.  Scholars have been debating ideas through written works for years and citing is a way of respecting those who've engaged in the topic before you. 

 Based on UCLA's Why Cite? guide.

This video from the Pollak Library at California State University, Fullerton, offers an introduction to citing information found in books and articles, and to managing citations.

This segment from the video CyberEthics discusses plagiarism in the online environment together with possible consequences.