Supply Chain Management Wiki

“A citation is a reference to any published work as well as any form of communication with sufficient details to uniquely identify the item. When academics, scientists, and other professionals refer to any published work in their own published work, they cite it, giving the author, year, title, and locus of publication (journal, book, working paper, etc.).”¹⁾

Citation, or what is often referred to as “in-text citation,” is different from references or works cited. “[I]n academic writing, citations are used in the body of the the text itself, whereas references are a complete list of sources included at the end of a written work.”²⁾

You wrote a few sentences and made a few claims in your paper. You also added citations here and there. Now you want to know if you did it correctly.

Read each sentence and ask yourself this question: “How did you know that?”

If your answer to that question is not immediately clear, then you didn’t do your in-text citation correctly. Keep on reading then!

• How Do I Cite Sources? - a detailed article by Plagiarism.org
• Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing - (from a book called Reading and Writing in College)

• How to quote, paraphrase, and summarize properly - (each link takes you to a chapter of the book. Then navigate to the contents (as you can see under Chapter 3)
  • Quoting
  • How to Quote
  • Paraphrasing and Summarizing
  • How to Paraphrase
  • How to Summarize
  • Chapter 3 Recap
• Citation Skills
• Understanding plagiarism due to improper citation
• In-text citations
• Bibliographic citations

—

How to Quote in Under 5 minutes

—

How to Paraphrase in 5 Easy Steps

—

How to paraphrase like a pro

—

There are thousands of different citations styles. This page alone lists more than 10468 citation styles (as of 2024-04-02).

We use a few styles in our courses.

To learn how to cite a source using the APA style check out the following page:

https://pitt.libguides.com/citationhelp/apa7

—

APA 7th Edition: The Basics of APA In-text Citations

—

If you chose to use a bibliography management software like Zotero to automate your citation creations, then you will save a lot of time.

• Annotating Sources - (from a book called Reading and Writing in College)

You must annotate your bibliography/reference entries (i.e. the list of works cited at the end of your paper). Explain, to the reader, why you included that bibliography item in your paper, what the main arguments/points were in the source, and how they were relevant to your paper.

You can use Zotero to create an annotated bibliography automatically (add APA annotated bibliography to your Zotero):

• Creating an Annotated Bibliography

—

Annotated Bibliographies with Zotero (starts 3m:30s into the video).

—

The following websites will help you to learn more about annotated bibliographies, what they are, and how to make them: