How to Cite

Your teacher may specify how you should acknowledge your sources and may have a style sheet or guide for citing resources. If not, you can refer to the Landmarks Citation Machine located on the Library Home page.

In addition to the resources available through the Library, many colleges have produced guides intended to help students avoid plagiarism. Here are some of the best.

• The Writing Center at Hamilton College offers guidance on Using Sources, including a discussion of how and when to use direct quotations, paraphrase and summaries.
  
  
• UC Davis provides guidance to students wishing to avoid plagiarism by Mastering the Art of Scholarship. This document emphasizes the correct citation of sources.
  
  
• The Writing Place at Northwestern University has developed an excellent site an avoiding plagiarism. The site focuses on common mistakes of paraphrasing.
  
  
• The Writing Center at Yale University lends support for best practices in citing your work and understanding the pitfalls of plagiarism.
  
  
• Purdue University Online Writing Lab has an in-depth cite which enables its users to master all aspects of writing a research paper.
  
  
• AdultLearn.com good internet site which offers further resources on avoiding plagiarism and citing work.