Drafting your paper
Drafting your paper
You have searched through the sources of information at your disposal, selected the most relevant results and evaluated them. Now it is time to start to write your thesis and to organize all the information gathered and used.
2. Citations and bibliographies
2.2. What a citation is
Bibliography is generally placed at the end of your work. However, it is not sufficient, because you have to signal credits in the body of the text, every time you are referring to somebody else’s work. In this case, you need in-text citations and quotations.
CITATIONS: you cite an author when you use a particular idea from his studies (paraphrase).
QUOTATIONS: you quote an author when you cite the exact words or phrases. In this case, you have to delimit these expressions by quotation marks.
Remember that also images, graphs, tables … must be cited.
Either for citations or for quotations you can include the reference in parenthesis at the end of the expression, or use footnotes, where you can also add some comments and other references.