Economics: Citing and Evaluating Sources

A tutorial describing how to evaluate sources. Brought to you by Western Libraries.

Here are some links and books recommended by the library to help you with your citation formatting and bibliography list:

Do a quick check of the resource you intent to use:

• Currency: is the information up to date?
• Relevancy: is the information related to the subject, purpose and level of your assignment?
• Authority: who created the information and how reliable is the source?
• Accuracy: have you checked if the claims and the data are verifiable? 
• Purpose: can you discern any bias (economic, political, ideological etc) in the text?

Tools for publishing and managing bibliographies, citations and references online.