Chapter 7: Citing Sources
Key Takeaways
Key Takeaways
- In Forestry and Land and Food Systems, we use citation practices established by the American Psychological Association (APA)
- It’s important to cite your sources as a way of giving credit to scholars and/or knowledge keepers who have influenced your ideas
- When we don’t credit the ideas of others, we are plagiarizing (either intentionally or unintentionally) their ideas and passing them off as our own
- Recognizing and citing Indigenous oral tradition as a way of knowing and reproducing knowledge is an important part of decolonizing scholarship
