Citations

• Citations


  The way you tell your readers that certain material in your work came from another source
• Acknowledging someone's work or ideas

  A way of giving credit to individuals for their creative and intellectual works that you utilized to support your research
• When you need to cite
• Information included in a citation

  • Title of the work
  • The date your copy was published
  • Information about the author
  • Name and location of the company that published your copy of the source
  • The page numbers of the material you are borrowing
• Citation styles


  Dictate the information necessary for a citation and how the information is ordered, as well as punctuation and other formatting
• Citation styles


  • APA (American Psychological Association)
  • MLA (Modern Language Association)
  • Chicago/Turabian
• APA (American Psychological Association)


  Used by Education, Psychology, and Sciences
• MLA (Modern Language Association)


  Used by the Humanities
• Chicago/Turabian


  Generally used by Business, History, and the Fine Arts
• In-text citations


  • Falsely balanced news coverage can distort the public's perception of expert consensus on an issue (Burnside, 2016).
  • Burnside (2016) noted the dangers of falsely balanced news coverage.
• References


  A formatted list of all sources you cited within your paper
• References provide more information about the source, so that the reader can find it if they wish
• Bibliographies


  Lists all the material you have consulted in preparing your essay, whether you have actually referred to and cited the work or not
• Bibliographies are often used in Chicago and Turabian citation styles
• Bibliographies usually contain a long reference that has a corresponding footnote within the body of the paper
• References only list items you have actually referred to and cited in your paper, while bibliographies list all the material you have consulted