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You will research your papers in books, journal, websites, and other resources. It is important that you do not represent someone else’s work as your own. Sometime you will quote from another author’s work, and other times you will paraphrase. To quote is to use exactly the same words as the other author. These words must be in quotation marks and credited to the original author. To paraphrase is to put another writer’s thoughts into your own words, but you must still credit the original author with the idea. In either case, you must give the source of the words quoted or paraphrased. Many of the electronic resources available through the Library's website include instructions for citing information found through these resources.
These links take you to some websites that can help you with the process.
Citation Machine
How to Cite Sources in a Paper
Assembling a List of Works Cited in Your Paper
EasyBib.com
Citation Style Guides
How to Cite Electronic Sources, from the Library of Congress Memory Project
Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association: Guidelines provided directly by the American Psychological Association on using their format to cite Internet resources. This replaces "How to Cite Information From the Internet and the World Wide Web."
Columbia Guide to Online Style: Guidelines for citing electronic resources; by Janice R. Walker and endorsed by the Alliance for Computers & Writing.
APA Style, links from Yahoo
MLA Style, links from Yahoo
Failing to properly attribute another’s work and representing that work as your own is called plagiarism. Plagiarism is a very serious academic offense and can lead to failure and/or disciplinary action.
January 11, 2007
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