- Use quotations for the exact wording you use directly.
- Use your own words when paraphrasing and summarizing and know how much percentage you paraphrased or summarized
- Provide citations for all quotations, summaries, and paraphrases.
- Provide citations for any material including non-text resources such as images, audio, information obtained by e-mail, chat, etc.
- Keep track of your citations. If you are photocopying, printing, or downloading an article or an excerpt from a book, keep the citation information together with the text.
- Ask a librarian to help you with citing your resources properly in the required format.
- When in doubt if it is a piece of common knowledge or not, just cite!
Avoid over-citing, as it is another form of plagiarism. Make sure to incorporate your own ideas with the citations and explain them.
