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SLS 1101

This LibGuide is intended to cover the basic material covered in an SLS 1101 Library instruction session. Topics include finding help on the library website, identifying resource types, and avoiding plagiarism by citing your sources.

Plagiarism

What is plagiarism, and how can you avoid it?

Essentially, plagiarism is not giving credit to a source of information, or giving improper credit. To learn more about plagiarism please watch the video above, and visit the accompanying website on Using Information Correctly.

According to the SCF Student Code of Conduct, plagiarism is defined as "representing the work of others as their own; or submitting written materials without proper attribution or acknowledgment of the source." Plagiarism can lead to disciplinary actions being taken against the student. 

APA

American Psychological Association (APA) citation style is commonly used by Nursing and Dental programs on campus, as well as some communication, sociology, and other social science disciplines.

In-text citations will list the author's last name followed by a comma and the year of publication: (Markle, 2019).

APA style features a References page at the end of your paper that lists the resources you used in alphabetical order by author's last name.

Standard APA format follows the styles in the following examples. Note that in APA style a period separates each part of a citation.

Books:

Author Last Name, First Initial. (Year). Book title: Subtitle. Publisher. 

Yu, C. (2020). Interior Chinatown. Pantheon Books.

Scholarly Articles:

Author Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial. (Year). Article title: Subtitle. Journal Title,Volume(issue), page range.

https://doi.org/xx.xxxxxxxxxx 

Bockelman, B. (2016). Buenos Aires Bohème: Argentina and the Transatlantic Bohemian Renaissance, 1890–1910.
Modernism/Modernity, 23(1), 37–63. https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2016.0011

 

MLA

Modern Language Association (MLA) style is commonly used in literature and writing courses on campus.

In-text citations will list the author's last name and the page number of your quote: (Markle 7).

MLA style features a Works Cited page at the end of your paper that lists the resources you used in alphabetical order by author's last name. The core elements of the citation are listed below, but please note that not all citations will contain all of these elements; if a resource does not contain a version number, for example, then that element can be eliminated from the citation.

Work Cited Entry Core Elements:

  1. Author (Last name, First name).
  2. Title of Source. (Book, chapter, article title, etc.)
    Container elements:
  3. Title of container, (Book, periodical, journal, website, etc.)
  4. Other contributors, (Editors, translators, narrators, directors, etc.) 
  5. Version,
  6. Number,
  7. Publisher,
  8. Publication date,
  9. Location. (Page numbers, URL/DOI numbers)

Pay close attention to the punctuation following each element; if there is a period in the list above then your citation should include a period in that place (likewise with commas). Titles will also appear in italics in the finished citation.

Examples:

Books

Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date.

Yu, Charles. Interior Chinatown. Pantheon Books, 2020.

Scholarly Articles

  • Note: A scholarly article that comes from a database will have more than one container: one for the journal, and one for the database. 

Author Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article: Subtitle." Journal Title, volume, issue number,

Publication date, pp-pp. Title of Database, DOI Number.

Bockelman, Brian. “Buenos Aires Bohème: Argentina and the Transatlantic Bohemian

             Renaissance, 1890-1910.” Modernism/Modernity, vol. 23, no. 1, Jan. 2016,

             pp. 37–63. EBSCOhost, doi.org/10.1353/mod.2016.0011.