ARC 498 - Capstone Preparation

Why cite? It's important to cite your sources, for a variety of reasons:

• To give credit to the author(s) of your sources.
• To allow your readers to locate your sources.
• To show that you thoroughly researched your topic and can support your claims.
• So you don't get in trouble for plagiarizing.

Chicago Manual of Style Notes-Bibliography System Style Guide
Chicago Manual of Style Author-Date System Style Guide
From Ohio State University. These guides include examples using both the footnotes-bibliography style (recommended in the arts, literature and history), and the bibliography and in-text author-date style citations (recommended in the sciences).

Bibliographic management tools can help you:

• Collect and import references from online databases

• Organize your references for research topics and papers.

• Create a formatted bibliography for your paper or cite references while you write.

Learn more from the library's Citation Guide, and check out the citation management tools guide.