Looking to practice your citation skills? Take 5 minutes to try some of these citation games and tutorials!
Here are a few resources that might help you to track and format your citations! Keep in mind, however, that citation managers and generators are very helpful, but can sometimes be wrong. Make sure that you check your citations against proper APA citation guidelines to make sure that they're accurate!
As graduate students and teachers, regardless of how you use copyrighted material, you always want to be sure to provide a proper citation to that material. Citing resources is essential for giving credit to your sources and maintaining academic integrity as a Relay student and a teaching professional. You must provide a citation whenever you use someone else’s work, be it a direct quote, idea, summarization, fact, video, image, or other media.
We cite for many reasons, including:
Relay encourages you to use the American Psychological Association (APA) citation style. This style is widely used at education institutions where a single, uniform standard is desired for teaching purposes. This Relay APA guide, available below, is a helpful resource as you write your citations. If what you are trying to cite does not match exactly with any of the examples on the APA guide, don't be afraid to use what one APA blogger calls a "Frankenreference" (McAdoo, 2010). In other words, mix and match examples as needed. It is more important that you include enough information to find the original resource than that you follow APA format exactly.