Plagiarism is not just the using of other people's exact words without giving them credit, but also using their uniques ideas without citing them as the source. Paraphrases and summaries of other people's ideas must also be cited, or you will be charged with plarigaism. More often than not, in writing you will do more stating the ideas of others in your own words, that is you will paraphase or summarize those ideas of other people. In those instances, of course, you should use the exact quotation, correctly citing it as the work of someone else.īut a paper cannot be written by simply stringing together exact quotations from a number of authors. In writing papers, you will often want to use exact quotes, especially when you cannot improve upon an author's original way of stating an idea. MLA (8th): In-text and Works Cited and Formatting The Duquesne University Writing Center has created very helpful guides to assist you with citing in-text and in bibliographies in MLA, APA, Chicago Manual of Style and MLA. PDFs of these documents are available below.ĪPA (6th edition): In-text and Reference ListĬhicago, notes and bibliography (17th edition): In-text and BibliographyĬ hicago, author-date (17th edition): In-text and Bibliography The second is providing complete bibliographic information for your sources in a bibliography (also known as a Works Cited page or Reference List). The first is citing within the text of a paper, either by using parenthetical references, or footnotes. When we speak of citing, two things are meant. MLA - Created by the Modern Language Association, it is mainly used in English and may be used in some of the other Humanities.Chicago Manual of Style - Used in many disciplines.APA - Created by the American Psychological Association, it is mainly used in Psychology and some of the other Social Sciences, as well as Nursing.Three of the most commonly used formats at Duquesne are: There are numerous formats that can be used to cite sources.
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