Style Manuals
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.
- APA Style
- Citing Sources, from Duke University Libraries
- Citation Machine
- Citing Primary Sources(from the Library of Congress Memory Project)
- How to Cite Sources in a Paper
- EasyBib.com
- MLA Style
- Mendeley: a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, automatically generate bibliographies, and more
- OWL: Purdue Online Writing Lab: APA Style
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.
