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Work to put concepts into your own words. Paraphrase them. Here are a few helpful tips.
Scholarly articles have a rather standard format. Knowing how they're arranged will help you as you're reading for information or if you're writing your own article,
Click on the image to interact with the document and learn about the parts of a scholarly article.
When your work incorporates materials developed by others, it's important that you cite them. This adds credibility to your work. It also allows others to refer to your original source. Without referencing the sources of ideas (this includes images), without providing quotes around what someone else said, you can be accused of plaigerism. This is against the ISU Code of Student Conduct and can adversely affect your grade or standing at ISU.
Sources to consult for help with your citiations
You may also want to consider using citation managment software to help you store and ogrganize your resources.
APA Academic Writer will help you organize your academic writing using APA style.
This image distinguishes citations for books, book chapters and online journal articles from each other. The citations below are in the syle of APA 7th edition, but the elements you should look out for (authors, editors, publication information...) will be present in some form in most common citation styles.
Are you ready to learn more about APA style? Use this online quiz to learn about in-text citations.