Citation

Citing any source of information that was consulted is key for an academic student that wants to avoid charges of plagarism. Formatting the citations to match a specified bibliographic style (such a style as APA, MLA, or Chicago style) can be challenging.

To make it easier for students, journal database suppliers such as EBSCOHost, ProQuest, and InfoTrac offer to print citations according to these formats. All of these machine-generated citations have errors, and the student needs to check the generated citation against their style guide.

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