The most often used citation styles for History resources is the Chicago Manual of Style. This guide provides examples of citations, but you may also want to look at the Style Guide from Purdue's Online Writing Lab.
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.