Documentation of Sources Illustrated

الملخص

The documentation of sources, or simply referencing, is both professional and ethical. On the professional level, it demonstrates the researcher's research skills (identification of relevant sources, library skills, summarizing, and paraphrasing, etc.). On the ethical level, on the other hand, it discards unprofessional practices such as plagiarism by giving credit to other contributors whose research has supported the researcher's assertions. All referencing systems across the board are meant to evaluate evidence put forward and the identification of the sources of the information, which eventually adds to the credibility of the research. The current paper aims to ease researchers, particularly novice ones, into the different referencing systems and recent innovations (namely APA 7th edition)