What are the rules about citing works in a paper? I dont want to plagerize?

Question

I am writing my thesis paper. Need help.

Answer 1

For a Thesis you need to acquire the APA Publication Manual. They write entire books on this, and APA is the usual standard. But just to be safe, check with your Advisor. Because they write entire books on this, there are no quick answers.

I spent as much time citing my research papers in Grad school as I did writing the papers. Good luck...

Answer 2

Actually, I think that depending what school system you're in, it's generally either MLA's standards or APA's standards that are used. You'll want to find out which one your school uses, so you know how to do it. I would buy the handbook on whichever one that is, just so you know specifics. But, generally, here's the way a citation will go:

Author (last, first). Title of article or book (if it's a book it's underlined, an article it's in quotes). Name of magazine/newspaper/reference book (if it is one). Publication information (City: Publishing Co., Year Published). Date you accessed it and URL (if it's on the internet, ex: 12 March 2006 ).

Make sure to leave in those periods. They're important. Also your entries usually have to be in alphabetical order. Now that's for your Works Cited, but you will also have to use parenthetical citations within your paper, meaning you just put the first word of your citation in parentheses with the page number (Jones 8), every time you use a quote, a paraphrase, or a summary of anything. That's basically it.

Answer 3

if you take ideas from a book and rearrange them into your idea
e.g. p7 - 13-34-2-19 then it goes into the bibliography as a source

if you take a direct sentence out - up to a paragraph - then it's a footnote on that page! 1

you get more points for rearranging than direct quotes - 'cause they already did the work

and the more books to put into the Bibliography - the better the paper

another rule of thumb - if you find an idea in three books - then it doesn't have to bee footnoted if you put it in your own conclusion - BUT if you take the conclusion directly from another book - (FOOTNOTE TIME)

whew - now that was easy

Answer 4

When in doubt, cite. It's better to have a prof say, "You've cited far too much in this essay," than to have the prof say, "You've plagerized, you're failing this assignment and you're getting kicked out."

Answer 5

It would depend on which format of citing and references you are using.
There are 5 different formats:
APA, MLA, CM, CBE, and COS
Do you know which one you are supposed to use?