Research Guides: Family, Nutrition & Exercise Sciences (FNES) Guide: Citing Your Sources

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Subjects: Family Nutrition and Exercise Sciences, Multidisciplinary, Nutrition, Physical Education

Citing Your Sources

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Former Title: RefWorks Flow
Access Provider: ProQuest, Part of Clarivate
Description: Tool for citation management that enables you to organize your research in APA, MLA, and other formats.
Catalogue Link: OneSearch.
Format: Citation Management Tool
Note: Existing RefWorks users can import existing citations from the older version. For more information on how to migrate to the new RefWorks, please visit the link to the guide.

RefWorks User Guide
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RefWorks User Guide Link to PDF
Introduction to RefWorks
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This 8 videos playlist will provide you all the necessary information on the main RefWorks features, such as functionality, exporting references, organizing them or writing with RefWorks.

Editing Citation Styles in RefWorks
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This four-video playlist will guide you through some advanced RefWorks features: editing citation styles, collaboration & Projects

Additional Information on RefWorks
Please refer to the RefWorks Guide by ProQuest for more information.

Guides:

Chicago Manual of Style Online
Online version of The Chicago Manual of Style (17th and 16th Eds.)

The most commonly used style manuals are APA (American Psychological Association), which is usually used in the social sciences, MLA (Modern Language Association), which is used in the humanities, and Chicago Manual of Style, which is used primarily in History.

Rosenthal Library has copies of MLA Bibliography, Chicago Manual of Style and APA Style Manual in our Reference and Reserve collections.

Here are online guides to three of the most popular citation styles:

Please note that we no longer have access to Web of Science. In lieu of Web of Science, you may want to use one or more of the following citation resources:

Plagiarism is taking credit for someone else's writing as if it were one's own. To avoid plagiarism, you must provide full citations for all types of sources, including, books, articles, government documents, interviews, Internet sources, and media.

Remember that accidental plagiarism is still plagiarism! Knowing the standards of CUNY's Academic Integrity Policy can help you use sources in an academically acceptable way.

Strategies for avoiding plagiarism:

Write down the citation information and page numbers for every source you use, so that you can easily find it again later.
Take notes as you are reading to remind yourself what information came from each source.
Instead of copying and pasting, put the original source aside and write down the main ideas in your own words. This is one method of paraphrasing — using someone else's ideas but putting them in your own words. Note that you will still need to cite the source of these ideas.
It is a good idea to quote directly from sources, but you must make sure that you put any words that are not your own into quotations and cite their source.