Citation: How to Cite Your Sources

Why should you properly cite your research?

• Point out the conversation you are having with other scholars and their ideas.
• Enhance the credibility of your own argument with supporting evidence.
• Provide your reader with additional sources for further reading.
• Give credit where credit is due.
• To avoid plagiarism, a serious academic violation.

Citation politics is about reproducing sameness. Academia has a long history with intellectual gatekeeping. Institutions of higher education still employ a homogenous faculty population resulting in white male dominated research production favoring western systems of knowledge.

Women are cited less on average than research authored by men. If a women co-authors with a man, the paper has a higher chance of being cited.

People of color and other marginalized people are less cited than their white colleauges even if they have more experience than white researchers

Well-cited scholars have authority because they are well-cited. However, well-cited does not equate to quality especially at the expense of those less-cited.

Language adapted from Dawn Stahura's LibGuide