UNIV 1310 Research Basics: Citing Your Work

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects. Teachers and trainers may use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction.

Zotero is a free and easy-to-use research tool that helps you collect, organize, and analyze research and lets you share it in a variety of ways. Zotero includes the best parts of older reference manager software — the ability to store author, title, and publication fields and to export that information as formatted references — and the best aspects of modern software and web applications, such as the ability to organize, tag, and search in advanced ways

For more information about Zotero visit our Zotero research guide!

Each example on this page is hyperlinked to its appropriate site, where you can see the exact rules.

MLA Style

APA Style

MLA Style

APA Style

APA Style - Basic YouTube Video:

MLA Style

to "plagiarize" means

• to steal & pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own
• to use (another's production) without crediting the source
• to commit literary theft
• to present as new & original an idea or product derived from an existing source

*Source: www.m-w.com.

Plagiarism.org

UTEP Writing Center

Citing Research & Avoiding Plagiarism