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Citations: Understanding & Creating

Overview of Citation: Sources and Tutorials

Professor-Librarian Melissa A. Hofmann shows some of the sources you want to cite (from left to right):

books and ebooks; social media posts and videos; webpages; generative AI; statistics, news, and reports (from library databases or the Internet); and peer-reviewed articles from academic journals.

 

The Purdue Online Writing Lab (Purdue University) offers excellent guides to the most common citation styles. We link them here. Also, see the pages for each style on the menu for more information.

We also have the official books (in print only) for you to consult.

Possible citation for this source, according to MLA style:

deLaplante, Kevin. "Avoiding Plagiarism: When Should I Cite a Source?" How to Cite Sources and Avoid Plagiarism, no. 8, 23 January 2013. YouTube, https://youtu.be/g-IrFdghs4w?list=PL32A9993FC82230C3.

Possible MLA citation for full playlist, where the playlist is like a book with chapters, and we are citing the "book."

deLaplante, Kevin. How to Cite Sources and Avoid Plagiarism. 24 June 2014. YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL32A9993FC82230C3

 

Possible MLA citation for a particular video in the playlist:

deLaplante, Kevin. "Avoiding Plagiarism: When Should I Cite a Source?" How to Cite Sources and Avoid Plagiarism, no. 8, 23 January 2013. YouTube, https://youtu.be/g-IrFdghs4w?list=PL32A9993FC82230C3.