1. Let’s panic about citations
Rebecca halpern, vac librarian
Usc school of social work

2. 1. The specifics don’t matter 2. You need to learn them anyway

3. Why should I care?

4. What is referencing?
Referencing is the way to acknowledge that many of the ideas and facts in your paper came from someone else.

5. Referencing does:
Informs
Demonstrates
Separates
4. Reinforces 5. Acknowledges

7. You must reference when:
Using a direct quote
Paraphrasing an article, idea, or concept
Providing a statistic or fact
Making a general statement or claim that requires evidence

8. Which of these gets a citation?
Claim that poverty rates are increasing
Putting an author’s ideas into your own words
Statement that Freud is the founder of psychoanalysis
An image you found in Google
Your analysis and interpretation of another’s argument
Characteristics of a client, from their file

9. Quoting vs. paraphrasing
While related to learning outcomes, instead of being a task-based assessment measure, threshold concepts are “gateways for student understanding that once traversed, transform the student's perspective” (Townsend, Brunetti, & Hofer, 2011, p. 855).
Threshold concepts are different from learning outcomes. Where as learning outcomes measure if a student can complete a task, threshold concepts change the way students approach the discipline (Townsend, Brunetti, & Hofer, 2011).

10. Formats!
Social Work APA Guide: Purdue OWL: APA Style Blog:

11. The frankenreference Author or content creator
Author’s name or name of agency/organization
Date of publication
No date? Use n.d.
Title of item
What’s it called?
Publication information
For journals, it’s the journal title, volume, and issue
For books, it’s the publisher
For websites, it’s the URL
In-text citations are always simply author and date (with page number, if you’re directly quoting).

12. Let’s try it!
Provide a citation – in-text and reference list – for the NASW Code of Ethics that you got online. Provide a citation – in-text and reference list – for data retrieved from the Census Bureau. Provide a citation – in-text and reference list – for asynchronous course material. Provide a citation – in-text and reference list – for a newspaper article you retrieved online.

13. Questions?
Contact me! Rebecca Halpern, VAC Librarian