2.2 What are citations and references?
You maintain academic integrity by being diligent about understanding and following the rules about citations and references, working individually, being well-organized with good time management, and avoiding the temptation to cheat. In essay or report-style assignments, this includes using citations and references that follow an approved style guide. ALWAYS check with each instructor about what style to use.
I'm still kind of confused about what I should actually do when I'm writing assignments. Like, what's the difference between in-text citations and references?
Basically, in-text citations are placed within the body of your essay and allow authors to give immediate credit to the original source
of a piece of information that they are using in their paper. That way there is no confusion as to which ideas in a paper are original and which are not, as well as where each referenced idea came from. In-text citations need to be clear but brief, so as to not interrupt the flow of a paper, so they typically contain the most important identifying information for a source, such as author's name, date of publication and/or page number of the document where the piece of information in its original form can be found. Since in-text citations do not contain all of the source's bibliographic information like its title, publisher, the journal in which it was published, etc., a reference at the end of the paper must be included to provide this information. The in-text citation gives credit to the source at the point the information was used and it acts as a tag that helps the reader identify the source in the references list at the end of a paper. Essentially, the in-text citation is a short form of the full reference and the full reference is placed at the end of the essay or report. Both the in-text citations and reference list are formatted following one style manual (as assigned by your instructor).
Remember - there are multiple citation and referencing styles, so always check with your instructor as to which style is to be used for each assignment. For example, some citation styles use footnotes or endnotes that place numbers within the main text of the paper which correspond to a list of the author's sources at the bottom of each page or at the end of the paper to give credit to sources. Others have the author's last name and year of publication inside parentheses.
A full reference list is placed at the end of the paper and includes all of the source's relevant, identifying information so that the source can be found easily.
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Hey, great news! I found a way to use Google to look up answers during online quizzes!
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It's cheating if you copy answers from the internet or from any other source! Your work should be original and reflect your knowledge!
