Citing Sources

 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.

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.

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This guide is maintained by D'Arcy Hutchings.