Cite Your Sources Quickly and Accurately
The Constitutional Provision Respecting Copyright:
"The Congress shall have Power…To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Tımes to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
-United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8
Credit must be given to any work, text, ideas or more you quote, paraphrase, or in any way include in your own work. If you did not create, write, or fashion a work entirely yourself, you must give credit to the original creators; even to anonymous creators in history!
Tools for Citation and Avoiding Plagiarism
- Bibguru.com: Correctly cite nearly anything quickly and correctly!
- Purdue Online Writing Lab: Citations and very thorough writing and style guides.
Questions? Contact the library media specialists:
Dawn Currie-Scott - dawn_currie-scott@hcpss.org
Aimee Hocker - aimee_hocker@hcpss.org