Citing Your Sources
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is when an author doesn't provide accurate information about the sources they used. For more information about plagiarism, ask your instructor or a USU librarian.
Citing your sources helps inform the reader where you found your information. It gives credit to authors you borrowed information.
Citation Styles
- Purdue Owl Chicago Formatting & Style GuideFree Chicago help online from Purdue OWL. Provides examples, instructions for commonly cited materials, a sample Chicago paper, and tips for avoiding plagiarism. There is information on both in-text citations and end-of-paper references.
Organizing Your Sources
Citation Organizers
- Citation Managers Citation manager (or reference organizers) store and organize citation information for a variety of research resources for easy representation in a variety of citation styles.
- Zotero Citation Manager Citation organizers (or reference managers) store and organize citation information. USU Libraries supports Zotero, an easy to use, free, open-source citation management program
Synthesis
- Synthesizing Your Research Synthesis requires you to make sense of all the relevant ideas in your sources and blend them together with your own thoughts and ideas. This guide will help you through synthesizing your research.
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Check out our self-enroll Plagiarism and Citing Sources course for a more in-depth tutorial.
