This LibGuide is designed to provide you with assistance to cite your resources when you are writing a paper or completing assignments for your classes.
There are different styles to cite your resources and each style has its own format for citing your sources. In each tab you will find descriptions of the various citation styles featured in this guide.
Note that you will need to consult your professor to know what style is required in your respective course.
A citation is a way of acknowledging the intellectual work of others, it contains information about a resource that you have used or consulted. The resource can be a book or an article from a magazine, journal, newspaper or website. There are two formats of citations, a bibliography and an in-text citation.
An in-text citation is used to tell the reader that you have taken information from elsewhere. It contains information about a source in the text of your paper or assignment. It is enclosed in a bracket and it may include information such as:
A Bibliography, Reference List or Works Cited is at the end of your paper and it is a list of resources you have consulted or used.
Different citation styles use different 'words' to describe a list of resources at the end of your paper.
In general:
Bibliography: Contains all resources- even the ones you only consulted but did not cite.
Reference List or Work Cited: Contains resources that you cited in your paper (as in-text citations)
For more information about what to use for your citation style, please refer to the appropriate tab (APA or MLA) for your citation style on the top of this page.
Here are parts of a citation that you should be aware of:
Watch one of these short tutorials from CLIP or University of Sydney Library’s Referencing activities to learn about the parts of a citation.
Why do we need to cite the resources we use?
Citing your resources correctly is one of the ways to avoid plagiarism.
When you cite properly, you also
Generate and format citations in APA, MLA, and Chicago styles with ZU's Institutional Grammarly account.