Citation Resources

1. OWL Purdue Online Writing Lab:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/

2. Easybib.com

 http://easybib.com/

Follow Easybib's guide to understanding written plagiarism below:

3. Son of Citation

 http://citationmachine.net

Citation machine helps students and professional researchers to properly credit the information that they use. Its primary goal is to make it so easy for student researchers to cite their information sources

4. MLA Citation Guide

This guide was  designed to help students understand the citation process and the MLA citation style.

MLA CITATION GUIDE

CITING SOURCES

Why is it important?

• Allow readers to easily gain additional information from your sources.
• Gives the author of your source(s) credit for his ideas. 
• Validates your paper, as it provides evidence of the research conducted.
• Prevents plagiarism.