Document all sources that influenced your argument for your paper.
Why must you document your sources?
1. Give credit where credit is due.
2. Situate the writer's (your) voice within the scholarly conversation.
3. Demonstrate competence and trustworthiness of the writer (you).
4. Courtesy to your readers
5. Avoid plagiarism.
Chicago Manual of Style is the most common citation style for art, art history, and architecture
Chicago Manual of Style is the citation style recommended at Tyler School of Art & Architecture.
MLA Style is produced by the Modern Language Association.
MLA Style is the most common citation style for the Liberal Arts.
APA Style is produced by the American Psychological Association.
APA Style is used most commonly in the sciences and social sciences.
The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) contains writing resources and instructional materials focused on the writing process, academic writing, mechanics, grammar, punctuation, and more.
Get in the habit of using a citation manager to help you organize and store all the sources you use for your research projects.
Citation managers make it easy to:
Use any of these citation generators to quickly create citations.
Always proof the final citations according to a style manual.
