Research Report - Using Citations

Question 1

giving credit

Answer 1

• you must give credit (citations) when you use information you didn’t already know or that isn’t common knowledge. Otherwise, you are taking credit for some else’s work, which is known as plagiarism

Question 2

format

Answer 2

• citations for your research report vary in format according to 1) the source and 2) the requirements determined by standards organizations such as MLA

Question 3

in-text citations

Answer 3

• part of sentence

- as a parenthetical citation at the end of the sentence

Question 4

works cited

Answer 4

• must be listed on a separate page at the end of your report
• must give detailed information about the source
• hanging indent
• double spaced
• alphabetical listing
• all significant words are capitalized
• article titles are in quotes
• dates are day, month, and year in four digits
• web sources include the date you accessed the article
• note that author names are last name first for the first author. any additional authors are listed first name first