Citing the Web & Plagiarism

Tutorials

Here are links to tutorials and information cites that will help you understand the structure of a bibliography. For quick, template driven citation generators that create a citation for you, click on Citation Generator above. But beware, not everything fits neatly into a template. You will still need to organize your bibliography, so it's suggested you look at some of these tutorials.

APA Electronic References
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/664/01/
This page created by the APA discusses citing electronic sources in APA format.

Learning Page: The Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/start/cite/index.html
One of the best sites out there with instructions on how and when to cite using every possible citation system in existence. Clear and easy to understand.

Purdue University - Using Modern Language
Association (MLA) Format
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/
Excellent information site discussing formatting in MLA. This
site is created by the Purdue University Online Writing Lab.

Purdue University - Using American Psychological
Association (APA) Format (Updated to 5th Edition) l
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
Excellent information site discussing formatting in APA. This
site is created by the Purdue University Online Writing Lab.

Scott Forsman Handbook for Writers (online resource)
MLA, APA, CMS, CoS/MLA and COS/APA citation overviews.

Citation Generators

APA Wizard
http://www.stylewizard.com/apa5/index.html
"The APA Wizard is designed to help you create an APA (5th ed.) citation. It will take you through the steps for the most common types of cited works providing you with assistance on how to input specific information. As long as you enter the information correctly, the Wizard will result in a correct APA citation."

Son of Citation Machine
http://citationmachine.net/
A citation generator for MLA, APA, Turabian and Chicago styles. The "Citation Machine is an interactive web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties."

Understanding Plagiarism

Avoiding Plagiarism
http://sja.ucdavis.edu/files/plagiarism.pdf
A PDF document on avoiding plagiarism, including unintentional plagiarism, from the University of California, at Davis. Note: This could take a while to load.

Capitol Community College: Statement on Plagiarism http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/plagiarism.shtml
Useful descriptions and examples of plagiarized documents.

How to avoid plagiarism
http://www.northwestern.edu/uacc/plagiar.html
Guidelines for attribution, examples of paraphrased, interpreted, graphic, cut and pasted and other forms of plagiarism.

Plagiarism.org
http://www.plagiarism.org/
“The Learning Center is designed to help educators and students develop a better sense of what plagiarism means in the information age, and to teach the planning, organizational, and citation skills essential for producing quality writing and research.” This site does link to detection software which can be pricey, but the free information is still very valuable and includes definitions, citation information, printable handouts and more.

University of Maine's Plagiarism Site
http://plagiarism.umf.maine.edu/
Another valuable site for determining what plagiarism is.

Plagiarism Tutorials

Interactive Tutorial
http://tutorials.sjlibrary.org/tutorial/plagiarism/selector.htm
An animated powerpoint presentation from San Jose Public Library that includes a quiz at the end. While this site is specific to the resources available at the San Jose Public Library, it is still very useful to anyone interested in defining and understanding plagiarism.

Is It Plagiarism?
http://plagiarism.umf.maine.edu/is_it.html
A series of yes and no questions that you can answer helps you learn from examples.