Citing your Sources
Why Cite?
It is important to credit or cite your sources in your academic writing because:
- It shows you have complete proper research by showing which sources you used to get your information
- It demonstrates that you are a responsible and ethical learner because you give credit to others for their ideas that you used in your work
- It avoids plagiarism when using words and ideas created by others
- It helps your reader find where you obtained your sources of information
Citing means:
- You show in your text or project where you took words, ideas, figures, images, etc from some other creator
Citations consist of:
- Author name(s)
- Title of work (book, article, journal, image)
- Date of Publication
- Page numbers if available
- Volume and issue numbers (for articles)
- DOI or URL for online work
(Content summarized from MIT Libraries Citing Sources Overview, retrieved from (https://libguides.mit.edu/c.php?g=176032&p=1159439)
