If you use the texts, ideas, research data, pictures or any form of information published by somebody else, you must always refer to the source (the original publication), no matter where it originates from. For example your source may be an article from a scholarly journal, a thesis, a conference proceeding or a publication on the internet.

This libguides covers three topics: Using sources; Referring to your sources; and Citation Styles (APA style, Chicago style, MLA style, and Vancouver style).