Research Guides: Research Assignment Success: Citation & Annotation

Why We Cite

This brief video explains why citations are so important (there are more reasons than you may know):

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Why Citations Matter

The following tutorial explores the use of citations as part of the process of scholarly conversation, why different citation formats exist, and examples of citation styles, and introduces how to cite (from off campus you will need to log in using your Pipeline username and password):

Citation Guidelines

MLA Style Guide from Purdue OWL
8th/9th edition
APA Style Guide from Purdue OWL
7th edition
Chicago Style Guide from Camosun College
17th edition
More Citation Guides
Guides for other citation styles.
Noodle Tools Citation Builder
Try using this citation builder for sources that do not come with a pre-made citation. Just fill out the form and Noodle Tools creates the citation in MLA, APA or Chicago style.

Citing Text and Images Generated by AI

The links below provide some information on citing text or images generated by AI. Ask a librarian for help citing any AI sources you use in the citation style required by your assignment.

MLA Style Center: How do I cite an artificial intelligence? Guidelines for citing information generated by tools such as AI chatbots
AI-Assisted Authorship: How to Assign Credit in Synthetic Scholarship Members of the Cal Poly Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group propose principles for determining when it is required to credit an artificial intelligence (AI) writer for its contributions to scholarly work. They suggest two fundamental considerations: continuity (how substantially are the contributions of AI writers carried through to the final product?), and creditworthiness (would this kind of product typically result in academic or professional credit for a human author?).

Annotated Bibliographies

The following tutorial covers the purpose, components, and format of annotated bibliographies (from off campus you will need to log in using your Pipeline username and password):