Citation Tips

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APA- Tips on citations DO IT NOW. Don’t plan to do it later. Collect the Information for your citation as you go along while we are here to help you find it. Give your reader very specific instructions on how to find the information, idea or intellectual property you used or borrowed APA is used for Science and Social Sciences. Our Social Studies, Science and Health/PE/Practical Living teachers use this style. MLA is used for English and Arts/Humanities. Why? It is only fair that you “give credit, where credit is due”. We expect it. It can actually make your work stronger by citing facts and research done by authorities. If you don’t, there can be severe penalties both at school and in the workplace for plagiarism (using someone else’s work without giving credit).

Places to go for help 1. http://citationmachine.net/ A complete (APA or MLA) web site to help you create your citations by filling in blanks with your source information. 2.http://www.noodletools.com/ Use the free part of this site, NoodleBib Express, to create bibliographies in MLA or APA style by filling in the blanks. 3.http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citation.htm A color–coded site to help you create a citation (Note this lists several other styles like Chicago and Turabian, too. Just look at MLA and APA!)