COMM 3316F: Rhetoric, Race, and Memory: Cite Your Sources

Here is the link to our Writing & Citation Style Guides page where you can get handouts with Examples for different writing styles including APA and MLA.

•  APA style guide to electronic references
• APA Style Help: FAQs, Video Tutorial on the basics of APA, Blog, and more learning resources
• APA Citation Format
• Purdue OWL
• NW Missouri guide to APA Style  with examples from different databases.

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A Note about Plagiarism

"The words you use should be your own
Don't plagiarise or take "on loan"
'Cause there's always someone, somewhere
With a big nose, who knows
And who trips you up and laughs
When you fall"

-- From the song "Cemetry Gates" on the album The Queen is Dead. Written and composed by Morrissey and Johnny Marr. Performed by The Smiths.

It is important to cite your sources properly. If you want to learn more about avoiding plagiarism, read the Plagiarism Guide.

When you are writing your paper, you can use several ways to present information you have found in the body of your paper, and consciously avoid plagiarizing.

• Direct quote

If you want to use a sentence or a passage exactly as it was written, you can include a direct quote, surrounded by quotation marks, and either using an inline citation, or a sentence before the quote referencing the author and work of origin.

• Summary

You can also write a summary (in your own words of course) of the ideas or text you want to use. It helps to write the summary from your memory rather than looking directly at the passage.

• Paraphrase

Paraphrasing is similar to a summary. It just means taking what you have read and rewriting it in your own words.

NOT CITING OR GIVING ATTRIBUTION TO AN IMAGE SOURCE IS A FORM OF VISUAL PLAGIARISM

Citing images:

The basic elements needed  for citing images are as follows:

• artist's name, if known
• title of image, if known
• date work was created
• if date is unknown, place n.d. were the date would go
• permanent owner or institution where the artwork is housed
• the location or city

How to Cite Images from Mississsippi State University

• The Chicago Manual of Style Online
  • See their Quick Guide for the basics
  • See an example of an annotated bibliography
• Writer's Handbook Chicago
• Chicago Guide from NW Missouri with examples from different databases.

Copies of The Chicago manual of Style are also avaliable at the Alkek Library and the Music Library.

Citing Images Chicago Style from Colgate Visual Resources Library

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Or if you would like to use another style you can look at other Writing & Citation Style Guides such as APA, MLA. ASA, IEEE.

ASA Image Citation

MLA Style Guide from Purdue

Other MLA resources

Print copies of the MLA Handbook are available for checkout

To see examples of how to cite images in MLA, see the An Image (Including a Painting, Sculpture, or Photograph) entry or the A Painting, Sculpture, or Photograph entry from Purdue's Online Writing Lab.

Citing images in APA from the APA Style Blog

IEEE Style

IEEE Editorial Style Manual (Online)

From The Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition

3.22 Formal titles in captions

You'll see something like this:

It's important to know the parts of a citation so you can interpret it correctly. You must have at least the Journal name, volume, issue, and page number to be able to locate the article.