In order to avoid plagiarism, you must give credit when
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This content is part of the Understanding Plagiarism tutorial created by the Indiana University School of Education.
Reference managers (also called citation managers or bibliographic management software) offer a way to save, organize and manage references. Many work with word processing software to format in-text citations and bibliographies for papers and theses, allow you to share references, and enable you to attach or link PDFs to a citation record.
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The animation above shows an article cited in the APA format (view non-animated version).
To distinguish an article from other kinds of sources, look for:
Citations for articles accessed online often list the article's stable URL at the end of the citation:
The animation above shows a book cited in the APA format (view non-animated version).
To distinguish a book from other kinds of sources, look for:
The animation above shows a single chapter from a book cited in the APA format (view non-animated version).
To distinguish a book chapter from other kinds of sources, look for: