Answers & FAQ's

First, we have to determine whether you mean a citation or a source.  Here is the difference. 

A source is any one journal article, website/webpage, book, section of a book (either a chapter, a short story, an article of anthology), or any one item through which you will gather information for your research.

A citation is the identification of a source in your paper or project.  If you’ve paraphrased, summarized, or directly quoted something, you will need to provide a formatted summary of the source's basic identifiable information and where you got that information from.

In APA and MLA, the typical citation formatting styles used here at EGCC, the in-text, or parenthetical citation written, will be encased in parenthesis, giving identifiable information like the author, title, date, page number of the source that you used.  It should help to refer directly back to the entry in your Reference or Works Cited pages, that offers a more complete identification of the source.

Therefore, a citation is something that identifies a point of research gathered from one source.  The source is what you use to get research from and you have to cite to credit the research you have displayed in your paper.

If you truly meant a citation, please check the Topic Guides for our General Writing guide for actual citation help.