Citation Style Guide

Academic integrity plays a key role in research and scholarship - it promotes honesty, fairness, and credibility in scholarly discourse. Academic integrity is for everyone - from first year undergraduate students to experienced researchers and scholars.

Citing plays a crucial role in adhering to academic integrity and in avoiding offences such as cheating and breaching research ethics by:

• Allowing readers to find works cited,
• Promoting scholarly discourse by sharing useful resources, 
• Giving credit to the creators/authors of the works being cited.

Citing properly helps everyone adhere to academic integrity. For students, citing helps avoid plagiarism, whether it is intentional and unintentional. You'll find resources below on how to avoid plagiarism and adhere to McGill's standards for academic integrity.

The Office of the Dean of Students has the following resources for the McGill community:

• Academic Rights & Responsibilities 
• Academic Integrity: Plagiarism and Cheating 
• Academic Integrity: Research Ethics 
• Test Your Knowledge: This two-part tutorial provides Integrity Scenarios (Part One) and Plagiarism Examples (Part Two)

If you need further resources on academic integrity, you can consult examples from the universities below:

• SPARK: Academic Integrity Checklist (York UniversityLibraries)
• Plagiarism: What It Is and How to Avoid It (Indiana University)
• Avoiding Plagiarism (University of Victoria)