FYSM 1000 (045): Make Art From Science: Citing

When writing, you'll support your own ideas by referring to the works of other authors. Citing these authors fulfills certain purposes:

• Provides credit to other authors for their own ideas and research (This protects you from plagiarism!).
• Allows readers of your paper to find your sources and learn more (This also shows them the work that you've done in your own research.).

Although different styles are used in citing sources, they all provide enough information for someone to find the source being referenced.  The parts of a journal article citation in APA format are shown below.

ZoteroBib

ZoteroBib is the quick, web-based version of Zotero.  Enter a URL, select your style, and get a citation that you can copy and paste into your references.

Zotero

The full version of Zotero allows you to organize and annotate PDF and integrates with Microsoft Word and Google Docs to produce in-text citations and bibliographies.