DVC Citation Guide

You get your research assignment from your professor and they require that you cite your sources. What does this really mean? 

Citing your sources...

• Adds to your credibility and supports your ideas!
• Helps your reader find the sources you reference to read for themselves
• Ensures the accuracy of scientific and scholarly knowledge
• Protects and acknowledges intellectual property rights

When should you cite? 

• Direct Quotations: When you use the author’s exact words
• Paraphrasing: When you summarize someone else’s words or ideas
• Facts: When you mention something that is not common knowledge
• Images: When you use pictures, charts, and graphics that someone else created in a presentation 

 This guide was originally created by Tessa Withorn, Carolyn Caffrey Gardner, Maggie Clarke, and Jillian Holt Eslami at CSUDH Library and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License. It has been adapted and added to for the Citations Guide at DVC.