Using Sources: Evaluating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism

There are two types of citations.

• In-text citations appear throughout your paper at the end of a sentence you are citing. They tell your reader where you found the information used to come up with a particular idea.

• Works cited page (MLA) or reference list (APA) citations give all of the information your reader would need to find your source. They appear at the end of your paper as a separate page listing all of the sources you used.

♦ Works Cited (at the end of your paper)

The works cited page lists all of the sources that you used.

♦ In-Text Citations

In-text citations tell your professor which source you used at a specific point in the paper.

There are two types of citations:

♦ Reference List (at the end of your paper)

The references page lists all of the sources that you used.

♦ In-Text or Parenthetical Citations (within the paper)

In-text citations tell your professor which source you used at a specific point in the paper.