Hip Hop Resource Guide: Cite Your Sources

Any ideas, images, or words you do not create yourself must be given proper credit if you use them in your paper, BECAUSE you are using someone else's intellectual property. It shows you have academic integrity and honesty, and helps your readers find your information sources. It shows where your information came from, and adds credibility to your paper.

►  Online documents make it very easy to copy and paste information without thinking and without giving proper credit. Make sure you understand how to cite your sources.

• The Online Writing Center at Purdue University (Purdue OWL) is an excellent online resource to help you cite your resources properly. It also offers tips on how to construct a quality term paper. 
  Beware of Purdue's Owl and do not use its citation generator. Refer to the many examples instead.
• The Excelsior Online Writing Lab's section on Citation and Documentation.
• The Citation Builder from North Caroline State University is a good tool for creating citations.