How do I track my sources and create a citation?

All Students and Staff have paid access to a web-based research tool, Noodletools

This system allows to track notes including media and text, create citations for your sources and will allow you to easily download your notes and/or Works Cited page.

If staff or students need help with setting up or using Noodletools, contact Ms Hayes

Use this guide to do an edit of your Works Cited Page:

What is "citing a source"?

Citing a source means that you show, within the body of your text, that you took words, ideas, figures, images, etc. from another place.

Citations are a short way to uniquely identify a published work (e.g. book, article, chapter, web site). They are found in bibliographies and reference lists and are also collected in article and book databases.

Why citing is important

It's important to cite you used in your research for several reasons:

• To show your reader you've done proper research by listing sources you used to get your information

• To be a responsible scholar by giving credit to other researchers and acknowledging their ideas

• To avoid plagiarism by quoting words and ideas used by other authors

• • To allow your reader to track down the sources you used by citing them accurately in your paper by way of footnotes, a bibliography or reference list

What to cite

You must cite:

• • Facts, figures, ideas, or other information that is not common knowledge
  • Ideas, words, theories, or exact language that another person used in other publications
  • Publications that must be cited books, book chapters, articles, web pages, theses, etc.
  • Another person's exact words should be quoted and cited to show proper credit

When in doubt, be safe and cite your source!

Avoiding plagiarism

Plagiarism occurs when you borrow another's words (or ideas) and do not acknowledge that you have done so. In this culture, we consider our words and ideas intellectual property; like a car or any other possession, we believe our words belong to us and cannot be used without our permission.

Plagiarism is a very serious issue. If it is found that you have plagiarized -- deliberately or inadvertently -- you may face serious consequences. In some instances, plagiarism has meant that students have had to leave the institutions where they were studying.

The best way to avoid plagiarism is to cite your sources - both within the body of your paper and in a bibliography of sources you used at the end of your paper.

Extracted from:

"Citing sources: Overview." MIT Libraries, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY, 2019, libguides.mit.edu/citing. Accessed 3 Oct. 2019.