Instructions For Citing Sources

Citing sources used during research is not an optional activity, but instead a requirement that will keep you from being guilty of plagiarism. Plagiarism is using the words or ideas of another person as if they were your own. According to approximately thirty-three percent of 43,000 high school students surveyed admitted that they had used the Internet to plagiarize an assignment("Facts & Stats: Academic Integrity in High School"). While it may not be uncommon, it is absolutely unacceptable. There are lots of resources you may access in order to learn how to cite sources properly. Therefore, “idk” will not serve as an explanation for what someone may like to call accidental as opposed to intentional.

One great website you may use to site sources can be found at . You simply click on the format (APA or MLA) that you would like to use and then choose the type of resource you are trying to cite. You will fill in an electronic form of requested info. After you click submit, you will be given both in parenthetical documentation (in-text citation) and info that you may copy and paste into a works cited page. YES – COPY AND PASTE! Remember, my emphasis will be on integrity and giving credit to authors and inventors for their work, not on format.

Check out the fields I completing in order to create the one source works cited page at the end of this document. (I chose MLA format and web document.)

One Author
Author or Editor Name(s) / Author #1
/ Editor?
/ help
Title of Web Page / help
Title of the Web Site / help
Date Published or Last Revised / Day
/ Month
/ Year
/ help
Publishing Organization / help
Date Retrieved / help
URL (Optional) / help

Work Cited Page

"Facts & Stats: Academic Integrity in High School."Plagiarism 101. Paradigms LLC, n.d. Web. 16 Oct 2013.

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After clicking submit, I was given the information above to copy and paste. Note that it may not be in the same font or size used in your original work. Make adjustments accordingly as needed.