Citing Your Sources
If you found it on the internet, you didn't write it or create it. Cite it! Give credit to who did make it, think it, or write it. Even if it's free from copyright (ex: found it through a creative commons search or on pics4learning), you still need to say where you got the information.
Rules for Citations |
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There are multiple ways to cite the information you researched. Be sure to check with your teacher to make sure you are using the format they want. The most common methods of citation are MLA and APA.
Citing online sourcesCiting an online reference can be more confusing than citing a book or magazine article because the information can be harder to find. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try hard to find the information!
Thankfully, we've put together a troubleshoot guide for you to help you find more of that hard to find citation information. |
Have you written a wikipedia page today? You could have. Anyone can access and edit a wikipedia page. Because of this, you should never cite wikipedia in your citations. However, wikipedia can be a great place to start researching to get a basic overview of a topic. If you do find information, make sure that it is cited (at the bottom of the wiki page) and check the citation resource. That resource, in the wiki page citations, may be a great reference to cite.
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