Citing sources properly is an important part of your research. The following list of tips may help you with your citations:
- Confirm with your professor the style manual you are to use.
- The complete style guides (MLA, Turabian, APA, Chicago Manual of Style) are available behind the Reference Desk, 1st floor, Pollak Library North.
- Use the Pollak Library's "How do I Cite Sources?" page, which provides information for APA, MLA, and Chicago styles.
- Check out the Purdue Online Writing Lab for more tips on citation styles and writing and paper formatting guidence.
- Make sure you have all the information you will need from each source to create a proper citation, including data such as publication information from the front of books, journal volume/issue numbers, and page numbers for articles and book chapters. You can use Endnote Web, an online citation manager, to store your citations and create reference or work cited lists (see links below).
- Plagiarism is a serious issue, which includes presenting the work or ideas of another individual as your own. Keeping careful notes while researching your topic will help you to credit properly an idea or passage you came across.