Citation Help
There is no single preferred formatting and citation style for the WGS minor. Check with your professor to find out what style they require.
If you need a different citation style from those below, consult our Citation Guides page.
Why Cite?
Citation may seem like a bunch of rules designed to make writing your paper even more difficult. However, the purpose of citation is primarily to show how your work fits into the larger conversation taking place on your particular topic and to help facilitate the exchange of ideas between scholars (that means you, too!). Citation also ensures that the original authors or originators of an idea receive proper credit for their work.
What does this mean for you?
According to the High Point University Honor Code: "Every student is honor-bound to refrain from plagiarism." But what does it mean to plagiarize something?
Plagiarism involves quoting or paraphrasing without proper acknowledgment. You plagiarize if you submit, without appropriate documentation or quotation marks:
(High Point University Student Government Association)
Summary: You plagiarize when you take credit for someone else's work, either on purpose or by accident.
You can also plagiarize yourself. Called "self-plagiarism," this occurs if you reuse work from one course in another course without your instructors' permission. This is considered academic dishonesty.
Citation Managers via HPU
Citation managers can help you keep track of the articles, books, and other resources that you find, as well as help you cite them in the appropriate style in the text of your paper and in your references or works cited list. For more help with citation managers, ask a librarian!
Members of the HPU community have access to EndNote, a robust citation tool available in desktop and cloud-based forms and containing over 5000 citation styles. EndNote also comes with a plugin for Word that allows you to insert citations from your EndNote library as you write.
Follow the instructions on the guide linked above to set up your EndNote account.