Citation: Giving Credit
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is...
Taking someone else's words or ideas without permission and giving credit
Plagiarism is a form of stealing and can have some serious consequences.
When to give credit
Always give credit whenever you...
Use another person's idea(s), opinion(s), or theory/theories.
Paraphrases of another person's spoken or written words
Quotations of another person's actual spoken or written words.
Use any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings-any pieces of information-that are not common knowledge.
How to give credit (citation)
Citing your sources is how you show, within the body of your text, that you took words, ideas, figures, images, etc. from another place.
At BGA you will MOSTLY use MLA citation
In-text: give immediate credit!
(Author’s last name page #)
What if there is:
No author: replace with the title of article in quotes (“Article” page #)
No page number (website): just skip it (Author’s last name) no author (“PageTitle”)
Two Authors: Include both (Walker and Sherry 167)
Work Cited: to make sure your reader can find your sources, include a “work cited page” as your last page
Write Works Cited as the Header
List each of the sources in full MLA format (see next slide)
Organize the sources alphabetically by author’s last name (or other starting work of the source)
If a source takes up more than 1 line, indent all lines but the first line
Full MLA Format:
Book
Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. Title. Publisher, Year Published, Page number/range.
EBooks
Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. Title. Publisher, Year Published, Page number/range. Title of Website or
Database, URL.
Website
Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. “Title of Page” Title of Website, Publisher (only if different from website
name), Date Published, URL.
Online Video
Uploader’s Last Name (or Username), Uploader’s First Name. “Title of Video.” Title of Website, Publisher (only if
different from website name), Date Published, URL.
Digital Image
Creator’s Last Name, Creator’s First Name. “Title of Digital Image”. Title of Website, Publisher (only if different from
the website name), Date published, URL.
If Using the Gale Databases or Britannica School...
The citation is generated for you
Just click the "Cite" button at the top of the page
Gale
Britannica
Gale:
Britannica:
Copy and paste citation directly into your assignment
Or use http://www.easybib.com/ to help auto create your citations… just remember to always double check as the computer can sometimes get them wrong