Cite It Right!: Why Cite?

• Citations let your professor, or anyone else who reads your work, find the items you used in your research. The key to a successful citation is providing all the information needed for your reader to find the book, article, or other item you are citing.
• Citing builds your credibility and shows that your ideas are shared by other experts in the field. Citing scholarly, peer-reviewed sources lends extra credibility to your work.
• Citation avoids plagiarism! Citing your sources properly gives credit to the original author. 

Information originally found at the library for american.edu