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SPAN 301/302: Advanced Spanish

This course guide will help you locate information in English and Spanish for your Advanced Spanish research projects.

Avoiding Plagiarism

Citation Management

Store all your citations in one place and easily create your bibliographies using RefWorks.

What is a Citation?

 A citation...

  • describes a book, journal article, website, or other published item.
  • prevents plagiarism by giving credit to the originator of an idea.
  • enables the reader to locate the item.
  • includes the author, title, publisher and place of publication, DOI or URL, and date.

Why Should I Cite?

You must credit the source of anyone else's ideas that you use or mention in your writing. If you don't, you are plagiarizing -- an offense with serious consequences.

OWL at Purdue

The Online Writing Lab at Purdue University provides guidance on how to format in-text citations and bibliographies.

Style Manuals in Print