APA Style: A Guide to Citing Sources Notes Quiz

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Which of the following is NOT one of the three important reasons to cite your sources?

To create an in-text citation, give the author’s last name and the year of the source’s publication. Put this information in parentheses at the end of the sentence, before the final punctuation.

Periodicals are publications that are published regularly, or periodically, such as newspapers, magazines, and journals.

Citations help you remember where you got your information, but you shouldn't have to return to a source for more information or to clarify facts.

In-text citation is a list of all the sources you used in your research paper.

Citations for a specific document within a Web site should appear in both the References list and the body of the text, but citations for an entire Web site should always appear in the References list.

Which is a way to cite your sources?

Plagiarism is using someone else’s ideas or knowledge without giving that person credit. Avoid plagiarism by giving people credit for their ideas and their words.