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Citing Sources in Biology

Biology resources in undergraduate courses often 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.

Avoiding Plagiarism

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)

Getting Started with RefWorks

  

RefWorks is a web based citation manager tool that allow you to:

  • Import citation information from a variety of sources 
    (including article databases)
  • Collect, organize, and manage citations
  • Quickly generate bibliographies and in-text citations in many different formats

 

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.