HEP 3000: Citing & Plagiarism

Government websites:

• Cite these as you would other websites.
• If there is no author listed, use the name of the government agency or organization as the author.

Example:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2018, January 18). World Map of Areas with Risk of Zika. Retrieved from: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/world-map-areas-with-zika

• GWU has an online guide for citing government websites.

There are three main ways you can incorporate other's ideas into your work:

Quote: Using somone else's exact words in "quotation marks."

Paraphrase: Putting another source into your own words

Summary: Stating the main points of another source