ENGL 101: Kuzmenkov, T. (Fall 2024): Citing your sources
What does citing mean?
Understanding Citations
After you gather information from outside resources to add to your own ideas about a topic, you will quote, paraphrase, or summarize those sources within the body of your paper. Citing allows you to share with your readers where you got your information (so they can make judgements about its validity) and it protects you from any charges of plagiarism.
There Are Two Parts to a Proper Citation
- The citation "in text" --letting your readers know when an idea comes from someone other than yourself within the text of your paper
- The separate "works cited" page where you will list complete information about each of those sources
APA 7 online style guides
Useful Online Style Guides
Visit Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL) APA Style Guide for a sample paper and instructions for citing individual sources such as newspaper articles, scholarly journals, video and books.
OWL also provides general information about APA style in an APA Style Workshop.
- The Purdue OWL: APA 7 style citation guideUse the navigation on the left to find examples of in-text and reference list citations. Also contains a sample paper demonstrating in-text citations and paper layout .
- The Purdue OWL APA 7 changesThe OWL goes over some of the changes from APA 6 to APA 7
- The Purdue OWL APA 7 overview and workshopThis workshop introduces important aspects of the American Psychological Association (APA) Style used to format research papers
Please use the link below to visit TCC's Citation guide if you are interested in learning more about:
- How citation is important
- What, when, where and how to cite
- Integrating your research into your writing
- Word tips for creating reference lists
MLA style guides
Additional MLA Style Guides
Visit Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL) MLA Style Guide for a sample paper and instructions for citing individual sources such as newspaper articles, scholarly journals and books.
OWL also provides general information about MLA style in an MLA Style Workshop.
- The Purdue OWL: MLA Style Citation GuideThis resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook (8th ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.
Please use the link below to visit TCC's Citation Guide if you are interested in learning more about:
- Why citation is important
- What, when, where and how to cite
- Integrating your research into your writing
- Word tips for creating works cited lists
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