Horror in Literature and Film (NW)

Citations

Forgetting to document a source is considered plagiarism!

Don't wait until you finish your paper to begin citing your sources. It is a better idea to cite your sources as you find them and use them.  Use these tips to help ensure that documenting your sources is quick and easy!

1. When you decide to use a source, be sure to copy all the information required to develop a citation.
2. When you add a quotation to your paper, document the page number (or the paragraph number if no page number is present) of where the quotation was found.
3. Also, be careful if you cut and paste a quotation from one of our database articles to your paper. It is all too easy, while writing, to cut and paste a quotation without also jotting down the citation information.

The best way to make sure you do not forget to cite the sources you use - cite while you write!