Citation is a standardized way of documenting the sources of information you use in your work. Your work doesn't stand alone, but is part of an ongoing scholarly conversation. Citation is a way of tracing the connections between your work and that of others. Watch the video below to learn more: 

Citation: A (Very Brief) Introduction by Anne Burke, Daria Dorafshar, Kyle Langdon, Andreas Orphanides, and Kim Duckett is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States license.

For details about how to cite in APA and other styles, visit these sites from the Library and the Excelsior OWL: