If I've done my job right, you should have a strong sense at this point of the importance of citations to scholarly work, including your own scholarly work. Using citations, we can track facts, claims, and discoveries back to their sources, and map the influence of articles and their authors on future scholarship. On the other hand, without accurate citations we are left to make our own guesses and where information came from originally, and a very basic element of trust is lost. Failing to cite sources correctly will not only affect your grade, but could also open you up to accusations of plagiarism. The resources on this page should keep you on the straight and narrow, and set you up for citation success!
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RefWorks is a citation manager. It can help you organize your research by storing citations for the articles you find. You can then use those citations to automatically generate a bibliography, formatted to whatever citation style you choose (literally any style you can come up with, RefWorks can do). You can even sync your RefWorks account with Microsoft Word to drop in-text citations into your document. RefWorks looks complicated, but it's actually easy to use and very helpful.