Citing Sources: Introduction

Citing sources means to give credit to the work of others you used in your own research.

This guide provides information on :

• Understand how to be a responsible author/scholar
• Be aware of the different and available citation styles and formats
• Be introduced to the various citation management tools.

• Facts, figures, ideas, or other information that is not common knowledge
• Ideas, words, theories, or exact language that another person used in other publications
• Publications that must be cited include:  books, book chapters, articles, web pages, theses, etc.
• Another person's exact words should be quoted and cited to show proper credit.
• AI generated information (if the use is accepted).

• To be a responsible scholar by giving credit to other researchers and acknowledging their ideas
• To avoid plagiarism by quoting words and ideas used by other authors
• To allow your reader to find the sources you used by citing them accurately in your paper by way of footnotes, a bibliography or reference list.