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Citation Guides in the Library

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by American Psychological Association Staff
Call Number: Reference BF 76.7 .P83 2010
MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing by Modern Language Association of America Staff
Call Number: Reference PN147 .G444 2008

Online Citation Guides and Builders

MLA Formatting and Style Guide
Purdue University's OWL site offers samples of MLA entries.
APA 6th Edition Tutorials
From the American Psychological Association, this slide show covers the basics of APA style of citation, which is used in the Social Sciences.
APA Format and Guide
Also from Purdue's OWL site.
The Chicago Manual of Style Online
Turabian Citation Guide
From the University of Chicago Press, which publishes the Turabian guide.
BibMe
"A fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills."
Citation Builder
From North Carolina State University Library, this is another popular program for automatically formatting references in a bibliography or reference list.
Citation Machine
An interactive Web tool that formats your entries to create standard APA or MLA citations.

What is Plagiarism?

Plagiarism is presenting the words or ideas of others as your own without acknowledging the source. If you don't acknowledge or cite the author, you are committing a form of theft, called plagiarism. This video from Films on Demand describes how you can avoid academic plagiarism.

Plagiarism 2.0: Information Ethics in the Digital Age