Use this page for help understanding plagiarism, creating citations, and exploring writing resources.
The SLCC Student Code of Conduct defines plagiarism as, "Presenting within one’s own work the ideas, representations, or words of another person without customary and proper acknowledgment of that person’s authorship is considered plagiarism. Students who are unsure of what constitutes plagiarism should consult with their instructors."
The majority of the Library's databases, including OneSearch and ProQuest Central, have built-in citation generators. These help you to easily retrieve citations for your sources. Both Google Scholar and PubMed Central also have citation generators.
Note: Always consider the citations you pull from any citation generator to be drafts. You should review the citation for accuracy. You may need to fix spacing, indentation, capitalization, the number of authors listed in the citation, and URLs or DOIs. If you are using APA, for example, a common error is that the citation generator will capitalize every word in the article's title. Instead, APA using sentence case, where you capitalize only the first words of titles and subtitles and proper nouns.
Once you've selected an article, look for the "Cite" tool. In some databases, including Google Scholar and ProQuest Central, this looks like a quotation marks (" ") icon. Below is a comparison of the "Cite" icons in OneSearch and ProQuest Central.
Contact the Science, Mathematics and Engineering liaison librarian: Amy.Scheelke@slcc.edu.
