Definition
A Citation or Bibliographic Citation is a reference to a published or unpublished work.
Information usually includes:
- For a book: author, title, publisher, and date.
- For an article: author, title of the article, title of the periodical, volume, pages, date, and database info.
Resources are cited in a student paper and citations are listed at the end of the paper.
Ask your instructor which format he/she prefers you to use for citing resources. APA (American Psychological Association) and MLA (Modern Language Association) are the most commonly used at UW-Stout.
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E-MAILS:
- When citing an e-mail, listserv or newsgroup, you have an ethical obligation to be able to produce the message or posting upon request. The essence of citation is verification of information. If a reader cannot retrieve the source, s/he cannot see the full context or confirm the accuracy of presentation.
DATES:
- The date provided on a web resource may not be the original date of publication for a resource. It may be when it was added to the web. Subscription indexes, however, use the date the article was published.
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