{"id":1584,"date":"2012-10-28T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:31:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:31:08","slug":"to-cite-or-not-to-cite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/to-cite-or-not-to-cite\/","title":{"rendered":"To cite or not to cite?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I take th<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/10\/Education-pedastal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1585\" title=\"Education pedastal\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/10\/Education-pedastal-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a>e BMW (bus, metro, walk) to work each morning and, on the way, I read the newspaper back to front, i.e., I start with the comics\u2019 page.\u00a0 My favorite comic strip is <a href=\"http:\/\/zitscomics.com\/\">Zits<\/a>, which is about the daily adventures of a teenager named Jeremy Duncan.\u00a0 Last week, there was an amusing episode involving a bibliography.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/zitscomics.com\/comics\/october-25-2012\/\">Read the episode here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This reminded me of a question that I am frequently asked by students.\u00a0 When should I cite a source in my paper?<\/p>\n<p>You would cite a source when the idea is not yours, i.e., when you obtained the information from elsewhere. \u00a0The source could be a book, journal article, website, etc.\u00a0 Whether you quote the source or paraphrase it, you need to cite it within the text of your paper and include the reference in your bibliography.\u00a0 The only cases in which you would not cite a source are when the idea is yours or when you state a common fact, such as \u201cthe earth is round\u201d or \u201cStephen Harper is the prime minister of Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/images\/\">Image from Microsoft Office Clipart<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I take the BMW (bus, metro, walk) to work each morning and, on the way, I read the newspaper back to front, i.e., I start with the comics\u2019 page.\u00a0 My favorite comic strip is Zits, which is about the daily &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/to-cite-or-not-to-cite\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[94,5],"class_list":["post-1584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-reading","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3151,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/3151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}