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Why Cite?
Why Cite?
Have you ever wondered why it's so important to cite your sources? View this video tutorial to find out!
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Why Cite? tutorialView this tutorial to learn more about why citing is so important when writing and researching for your papers and projects (Opens a new tab).
Why and When to Cite & How to Cite
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Attribution Best Practices
Attribution Best Practices
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Best practices for CC attributionYou can use Creative Commons-licensed materials for free as long as you follow the license conditions. One condition of all CC licenses is attribution (Opens a new tab).
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Guide to Attributing Creative Commons Materials [PDF]This guide is designed to help you ensure you are attributing the creator of a CC licensed work in
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Open AttributeThese tools will query the metadata around a CC-licensed object and produce a properly formatted attribution that users can copy and paste wherever they need to (Opens a new tab).
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Attribution BuilderA tool to help you build attributions. As you fill out the form, the app automatically generates the attribution for you (Opens a new tab).
Attribution Examples
Attribution Examples
Here are four different, but equally correct, ways to attribute this photo to its creator:
"Untitled" By Matt Morse (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.
Matt Morse's "Untitled." (Photo). 
Untitled by Matt Morse.
"Untitled." By Matt Morse (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons. Available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michigan_City_Lighthouse.jpg
When possible, provide a credit list of material you used that adheres to best practices. Doing so allows not only your material, but the materials you attribute, to be found by search engines and other web discovery tools. Make the Author, Source, and License into links the user can follow.
- Example: This video features "EVERY song from Nickelodeon's School of Rock TV series (ft. Originals & Covers)" by Nick Rewind, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed).
You can also mention the source in the credits within the media itself. Crediting videos can be a simple list of the materials used with their associated licenses in a screen at the end of a video. For audio, it can be a verbal recitation of credits at the end of the recording.
- Video example 1: "Science Commons" by Jesse Dylan - see attribution starting at 1:52
- Video example 2: "Video Editing and Shot Techniques: Study of jump cuts, match cuts and cutaways " video by New Media Rights - see attribution starting at 3:21
- Audio example: "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" by Cory Doctorow read aloud. Mastered by John Taylor Williams - listen to attribution starting at 17:08
Using APA Style
The main book that you need to cite your sources and format your work in the American Psychological Association (APA) style is the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.):
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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
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ISBN: 1433832151Publication Date: 2019-10-01
Find it behind the Reference Desk.
To get you started, here's the format for citing the most common types of resources in your APA Style Reference List:
Book
Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle. Publisher name.
Article from a Database
Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume number(issue number), page range. http://dx.doi.org/10.0000/0000
Web Page
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Publication year, Month date). Title of webpage. Site name. URL
Personal Interview
Personal interviews do not need to be included in the reference list, but they should be cited in your text.
(Interviewee first initial. Last Name, personal communication, Month day, year)
(C. Smith, personal communication, January 11, 2017)
Don't forget that APA recommends author-date in-text citations!
Need more help with APA Style? Check out the following resources:
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What's New in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh EditionThis document provides an overview of what's new in the seventh edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Content throughout the manual has been significantly expanded and revised from the sixth edition (Opens a new tab).
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Purdue OWL APA Formatting and Style GuideThis comprehensive resource from the Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University provides examples for how to cite many different types of sources, from books to movies (Opens a new tab).
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APA Style BlogThe official companion to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition, this blog delves into the finer points of APA Style (Opens a new tab).
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Quick Answers about APA FormattingThis page from the APA answers common questions about setting up your running head, heading level, title pages, and more (Opens a new tab).
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Citation MachineCitation Machine formats your citations in MLA, APA, or Chicago Style. With this site, you generally have to input all of the publication information, but you don't have to sign up for an account (Opens a new tab).
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