QUIZ | Citing Sources: The Basics
Learning how to format your sources correctly can be challenging and time-consuming. Your COTR Library provides you with many resources to help you successfully master documentation and citing your sources.
Whenever you use someone else's words or ideas in your assignments, papers, posters, and presentation, you must acknowledge information borrowed by citing the source. This practice applies to all text sources you have used, such as books, articles, and web pages.
Electronic resources can be the most confusing to determine the correct format. When you use images, sounds, TV/film clips, streaming videos, and DVDs, you must cite those sources. Failure to cite sources is considered plagiarism - cheating or stealing.
You can avoid stress, anxiety, and embarrassment by learning and understanding exactly what, who, when, where, and how to cite your sources correctly.
Find information on how to introduce your sources in-text, format a References/Works Cited/Bibliography, search for and use a DOI, and other essential components of documenting sources. Review these How-to guides:
- Academic Honesty & Avoiding Plagiarism
- APA Citation Style 6th Edition
- MLA Citation Style 7th Edition
(Note: When required to use Chicago Manual of Style 16th Edition, refer to your instructor's requirements available in a PowerPoint on the specific course guides; most commonly Marcel Dirk's History and Political Science courses).
Afterward, challenge your knowledge, take the quiz!
Time limit: 30 mins
Grading method: Highest grade