Lesson 4: Citing Sources
American Medical Association Manual of Style
AMA stands for
The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
APA stands for
Plagiarism
Buying written work and submitting it for academic completion
Plagiarism
Changing the word used into synonyms or copying the exact sentence structure of a sources without giving credit
Plagiarism
Copying many words and ideas without attribution
APA
Encourages you to indicate the page numbers even in paraphrases or summaries.
IEEE
Engineering
APA
Follow the author-(latest) year of publication method.
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IEEE stands for
MLA
Literature, arts, and humanities
The Modern Language Association Style Guide
MLA stands for
Scholarly writing
Means that you are able to exhaustively used related and existing ideas, information, concepts or arguments of an expert and to properly attribute these to the original source.
AMA
Medicine, health sciences, and other natural sciences
Plagiarism
Not following the convention for referencing and acknowledging sources
Plagiarism
Presenting an assignment as independent work when it has been priced in whole or part in collaboration with other people
APA
Psychology, education, HRM, business, economics, other social sciences
The Chicago Manual of Style
Reference books, non-academic periodicals
Reference citation
Refers to the complete bibliographic entries of all references used by the writer.
In-text citation
Requires the writer to cite the details of the reference used in a part of his/her writing.
Plagiarism
Serious offense in which someone takes and uses the ideas, information, concepts, arguments, or information of someone else, intentionally or unintentionally, without proper citations
Citing = referencing = documenting sources
Systematically showing what information or ideas you are quoting or paraphrasing and where they come from.
AMA
The number reference is placed in superscript after the period in the sentence.
IEEE and AMA
The reference are numbered according to the order in which they were cited in the text
IEEE
The reference numbers which appear in the text have to be in enclosed in brackets before the period.
MLA
This style follows the author-page method
In-text and reference citation
Two form of citation