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Geography 102H

Scholarly articles: finding and citing.

Importance of Citing Properly

Two Reasons to Cite Properly

1.  Avoid plagiarism.  Give proper credit/attribution to someone else's ideas.

2.  Give your reader enough information and accurate information to enable location of what you have cited.

Geological Society of America (GSA) Citations

The American Association of Geographers (AAG) requires using the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, for publication in it's journals.