OM 300 - Operations Management

For this course, you will need to use APA citations. Citing your sources accurately and completely is essential for avoiding plagiarism and allowing others to follow along with your work. When you use someone else's words or ideas, you should create both an in-text citation within the body of your paper and a references list citation at the end of your paper. 

There are a number of resources available to help in creating your citations. Two good sources include: 

•  The Purdue Owl's APA Style Guide, which offers lots of examples for both in-text and reference list citation formatting

• The official APA Style Guide website will always have the most up-to-date information, as well as in-depth information on citing different sources 

• The library's Citation Station guide, which includes information on how to cite a variety of different sources and example documents

For sources you accessed online, ideally your citations should include a link directly to that resource. However, often the URL you see at the top of your page when you are searching in a database is not a permanent link. That means that when someone tries to use that link in the future, they'll get an error message. When you are saving links to include in your citations, look for a stable or permanent link. Often a database will include a chain link icon where you can generate a permanent link.

You can also check if a link is stable by copying the link and pasting into an incognito browser window - if you get an error message, that means the link was not stable.