Citing Your Work

Why is it important to Cite your work?
It's important to cite sources you used in your research for several reasons:

• To show your reader you've done proper research by listing sources you used to get your information
• To be a responsible scholar by giving credit to other researchers and acknowledging their ideas
• To avoid plagiarism by quoting words and ideas used by other authors
• To allow your reader to track down the sources you used by citing them accurately in your paper by way of footnotes, a bibliography or reference list

“Citing Sources: Overview.” LibGuides, libguides.mit.edu/citing.

Using Citation Machine - http://www.citationmachine.net/