IL Session Module 3 - Citing Sources

Citing sources is important because

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

• we need to avoid plagiarism by quoting words and ideas used by other authors

• we need to allow your reader to find the sources you used by citing them accurately in your paper by way of footnotes, a bibliography or reference list.

• All of the above

Which of the following information should be cited?

• Direct quotes

• Statistics/Studies

• Facts

• All of the above

This acknowledges the sources you have used within the body of your writing or assignment.

• bibliography

• reference list

• summary

• citation or in-text citation

Also called end-text citations, these are the full list of sources you have referred to or cited in the body of your work.

• bibliography

• reference list

• summary

• citation or in-text citation

A bibliography is

• the full list of works which you have used in the preparation of your written work.

• the full list of sources you have referred to or cited in the body of your work.

• the sources you have used within the body of your writing or assignment.

• the list of books in your library

The usual elements of an in-text citation are

• Publisher name, DOI, volume number

• DOI, author's name, page number

• Author's name, publication date, page number

• publication date, page number, issue number

In APA citation format, the place of publication is

• omitted

• included

• extended

• spelled

Which of the following is NOT a citation management tools

• Zotero

• Mendeley

• Google Scholar

• EndNote

This website provides you with useful formatting styles.

• Google Scholar

• Mendeley

• Zotero

• Purdue Online Writing Lab

The citation management software provides 2GB cloud based storage.

• Google Scholar

• Mendeley

• EBSCO

• Purdue Online Writing Lab