Citations allow researchers to build upon each other's work by giving proper credit to sources. They contain information such as the author's name, publication title, place of publication, publisher, and date. The format of the source, whether print, web, or other, should also be included to provide full details about where the information came from.

1. Citations give credit to the source!
Citations allow researchers to build on
each other’s work.
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2. Who – who created, wrote or edited it.
Author’s last name, first.
Pietrusza, David.

3. What – as in, what are you citing.
Could be a poem, a book, a chapter of a book or a
website or one of 100 other items.
“Title of poem, chapter, section.” Title of Book.
“Cigarettes and Disease.” Smoking.

4. Pietrusa, David. “Cigarettes and Disease.”
Smoking.
Or
Pietrusa, David. Smoking.

5. Who published it? When was it published?
For a book that could be a city and state, then
the publisher. Then add when-the date.
Place of publication: Publisher, copy right date.
San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 1996.

6. Pietrusa, David. Smoking. San Diego,
CA: Lucent Books, 1996.

7. What format is the material you are
using, print, cd, dvd, web etc.?
Book, magazine, newspaper=Print.
Websites, database, anything online=Web.
Radio=Radio.
Interview=Interview.
ETC!
Pietrusa, David. Smoking. San Diego: CA, 1996.
Print.

8. Pietrusa, David. Smoking. San
Diego: CA, 1996. Print.