Academic Mentoring at SEBS

This guide serves as the central hub for the library instruction component for the first-year Academic Mentoring course at SEBS.

What is a Citation?

A citation is "quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work", according to the Oxford Dictionaries.

It's important to cite sources you used in your research for several reasons:

To show your reader you've done proper research by listing sources you used to get your information
To be a responsible scholar by giving credit to other researchers and acknowledging their ideas
To avoid plagiarism by quoting words and ideas used by other authors
To allow your reader to track down the sources you used by citing them accurately in your paper by way of footnotes, a bibliography or reference list

Subjects: Course Guides (New Brunswick)