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Citation and Documentation Styles

Find resources on Citation and Documentation Styles. APA, MLA, and Chicago Manual of Style have resources you can find at Forsyth Library and online, as well as a quick guide to the types of sources most often cited.

Video Tutorials from Forsyth Library

Avoiding Plagiarism

This video discusses plagiarism and how to avoid it when using and citing resources, including:

  • What is plagiarism?
  • How to properly cite your sources
  • Summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting
  • Writing resources for on-campus and virtual students

Avoiding Plagiarism Tutorial

Citation and Documentation Styles

This guide provides resources you can find at Forsyth Library and online, as well as a quick guide to the types of sources most often cited for the following styles:

  • APA
  • MLA
  • Chicago Manual of Style
  • Others (ACS, ASA, CSE)

Citation and Documentation Style LibGuide

Citation Management and Citation Tracing

This video discusses citation management and citation tracing when searching for sources, including:

  • Citation management software
  • Zotero
  • Citation Tracing
  • Scholarly Communications & Publishing Guide
Citation Management and Citation Tracing Tutorial

APA Citation Games

APA Citation Games

APA Citation Game: Reference List

This interactive tutorial is designed to help students write APA citations for journal articles, e-books, book chapters, news articles, and encyclopedia articles.

  • The tutorial generates a certificate of completion indicating how many questions the students answered correctly; the certificate can be printed, emailed, or saved as a PDF for proof of completion and for easy grading.
  • To learn more about APA citation style, visit the Citation and Documentation Styles Guide

APA Citation Game Interactive Tutorial about References List

APA Citation Game: In-Text Citations

This interactive tutorial is designed to help students write in-text citations in APA style, including works by multiple authors, no date, organization authors, multiple articles, and more.

  • The tutorial generates a certificate of completion indicating how many questions the students answered correctly; the certificate can be printed, emailed, or saved as a PDF for proof of completion and for easy grading.
  • To learn more about APA citation style, visit the Citation and Documentation Styles Guide

APA Citation Game Interactive Tutorial about In-text Citations

Bilingual Tutorial Videos

What is Plagiarism? / 什么是抄袭?

This bilingual video discusses plagiarism:

  • What is plagiarism?
  • Examples of what is considered plagiarism
  • How to avoid plagiarism?

bilingual tutorial video about plagiarism

Paraphrasing / 改写

This bilingual video discusses paraphrasing:

  • What is paraphrasing?
  • What does a good paraphrase include?
  • How to paraphrase?
bilingual tutorial video about paraphrasing