1. Do Citations Make You
Crabby?
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Geographic Survey. “Helmet Crab.” Flickr. 2012.
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2. Why Cite….
Geographic Survey. “Helmet Crab.” Flickr. 2012.
Public Domain.
• Attribute use of someone else’s intellectual property.
• Provide credit to the author(s), creator(s) and researcher(s)
• Points researcher to the original source
• Contributes to awareness and avoidance of plagiarism issues
• In the scholarly tradition, it carries on an academic conversation with
those who published before you and that will come after you.
3. Citation
Elements
• Creator(s)
• Author(s)
• Organization
• Government
• Publication Date
• Title of work
• Editor(s)
• Place item is held
• Media
• Page, Paragraph or other
placement identifications.
• Digital Object Identifier
(DOI) or Uniform Resource
Locator (URL)
4. FORMAT
Geographic Survey. “Helmet Crab.” Flickr. 2012.
Public Domain.
• Database – Did you sign into SCF.edu/library databases? Is a database of journals?
• Online Journal – Did you search Google? Does it have a title, volume, issue and
page numbers? Check “About” statement and copyright at the bottom of the page.
• Part of a Website – Does it have different sections with different names and
functions? No page numbers? Check “About” statement and copyright at the
bottom of the page.
• Government Document – Is there a .gov in the URL? Check “About” statement and
copyright at the bottom of the page.
• Reference or Dictionary – Are the entries in order by subject or title? Is it similar
to an encyclopedia, Wikipedia or dictionary in terms of headings?
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