APA Crash Course created by Valencia and Seminole State College
Economics resources at the undergraduate level typically use APA style. The APA website provides examples of how to cite and how to structure a paper in this style.
APA style follows this format:
Jackson, L. M. (2019). The psychology of prejudice: From attitudes to social action (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000168-000
The library can guide you to citation management software and resources to help you properly cite your sources.
Union College Statement on Plagiarism (Office of the Dean of Studies)
To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use:
- someone's idea, opinion, statement, or theory not your own;
- any facts, statistics, graphs, images—any pieces of information—that are not common knowledge (including definitions);
- quotes from someone's spoken or written words; or
- paraphrase of someone's spoken or written words.
Deliberate Plagiarism -
- Copying or buying someone's paper
- Using a paper from another class
- Using information from a source without citing
You Quote It, You Note It! (Acadia University)
RefWorks is a web based citation manager tool that allow you to:
As part of the Union College community, RefWorks is available for free download. To set up an account and for more information check the Getting Started with RefWorks guide.