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Citation Styles   Tags: apa, chicago, citations, citing_sources, mla  

A quick guide for APA, Chicago, MLA citation styles and more.
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  • Search for scholarly sources
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  • Use the correct documentation style

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Why cite?

An information literate individual is able to:

Understand the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information, and access and use information ethically and legally


Read more about the ACRL Information Literacy Standards



 

Understanding Citations

Plagiarism

To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use

  • another person’s idea, opinion, or theory;
  • any facts, statistics, graphs, images—any pieces of information—that are not common knowledge;
  • quotations of another person’s actual spoken or written words; or
  • paraphrase of another person’s spoken or written words.

Here are some links to tutorials that will help you understand more about plagiarism and how to avoid it:

 

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