More guides on citing

Citing your Sources

This guide takes a broad look at the citation process and is a good place to start if you are unfamiliar with citing your sources.

APA

Use this guide to familiarize yourself with the APA citation style.

MLA

Here is a similar guide for MLA.

Chicago

And one for Chicago.

Style List

Not sure which citation style is used by your department? This guide will help you figure it out.

Zotero

This guide will help you install and use Zotero, a bibliographic management tool.

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By Mahrya Carncross, WIU Libraries, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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What is a citation builder?

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With all the work that goes into researching and writing papers, you shouldn't spend too much time stressing about how to format your bibliographic citations. Luckily, there are plenty of tools that can help you create the citations you'll need for your bibliography. This guide will introduce you to some of these tools and give you some tips on how to make citation builders work for you.

Use the tabs at the top of this guide to find out more.

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Who cares about citing anyway?

Failing to give credit to the sources you've quoted or summarized is plagiarism, plain and simple.

Diana Hacker, editor of The Bedford Handbook, reminds her readers that "[t]hree different acts are considered plagiarism: (1) failing to cite quotations and borrowed ideas, (2) failing to enclose borrowed language in quotation marks, and (3) failing to put summaries and paraphrases in your own words" (570).

Bedford Handbook