Citing Sources

Refer to the following information on what you must cite within any written work at the University of Hawai'i-West O'ahu.

1. Quotations

If you use an author or document's specific wording, you must place those words within quotation marks and you must indicate the source of the words.

2. Information and Ideas

Even if you use your own words, if you obtained the information or ideas you are presenting from a source, you must cite the source.

3. Information

If a piece of information isn’t common knowledge, you need to provide a source.

4. Ideas

A document, material, or author's ideas may include not only points made and conclusions drawn, but, for instance, a specific method or theory, the arrangement of material, or a list of steps in a process or characteristics of a medical condition. If you borrow any of these from a source, you need to acknowledge the source in your writing.

Material Adapted from UW Writing Center