Citations and references should be included anytime you use another individual’s work in your own assignment. When including quoted or paraphrased information, images, charts, graphs, or any other content from another’s work, you need to show where you found it by including a citation and a reference. This guide provides resources on how to cite and reference other people’s work.
What is the difference between citing and referencing? Citations are added in the body of a research paper or project and references are added to the last page.
Citations, which are called in-text citations, are included when you’re adding information from another individual’s work into your own project. Your project could be a paper, a presentation, an excel worksheet, or something else. The format doesn’t matter. You still need to credit your sources. If you quote another source or take information from another source and place it in your own words (known as paraphrasing), you create an in-text citation. These citations put in the main part of your project, directly after the borrowed information.
References are found at the end of your research project, usually on the last page. Included on this reference list page is the full information for any in-text citations found in the body of the project.
If you do not cite and reference another’s work, you could be plagiarizing. Front Range Community College definition of plagiarism is:
“Plagiarism is the adoption or reproduction of ideas, words, or statements of another person as one's own without proper citation or acknowledgment. When a student submits work that they claim to be their original work, but actually is not, the student has committed plagiarism. Plagiarism includes the following: copying of one person's work by another and claiming it as his or her own; false presentation of one's self as the author or creator of a work; falsely taking credit for another person's unique method of treatment or expression; falsely representing one's self as the source of ideas or expression; or the presentation of someone else's language, ideas, or works without giving that person due credit.”
This policy can be found in the Catalog in Students Rights, Responsibilities & Code of Conduct/Academic Integrity section.
There are several citation/reference generator tools that make the job of citing the resources you used easier. These tools are not perfect, however. If you use a tool, it is your academic responsibility to double check to make sure that the citation/reference generated is correct.
Chegg, Inc., is an American for-profit education technology company. It provides homework help, digital and physical textbook rentals, online tutoring, and other student services.
If you are searching for articles using the EBSCOhost Discovery Service or other EBSCO database searches, they have a citation generator. Watch the video below for more information.
Zotero is in an American non-profit organization that funds its citation generating project by sell additional storage, not by selling user data. Its tool is a bit more complicated than others, but it also allows you to track your research and collaborate with others.
The links below are taken from Purdue OWL. Purdue University is a globally renowned university, and their OWL website has the latest information on most of the citation styles. The latest edition of the American Psychological Association (APA) Style Manual is the 7th edition.
APA Formatting and Style Guide
The links below are also taken from the Chicago Manual of Style Online's website. The latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) is the 18th edition.
The links below are taken from Purdue OWL. Purdue University is a globally renowned university, and their OWL website has the latest information on most of the citation styles. The latest edition of the Modern Language Association (MLA) Style Manual is the 9th edition.
MLA Formatting and Style Guide
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