# Citation best practices
November 2018
Caroline Salamin & Noémi Cobolet
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## Agenda
| time | activity |
| ---: | :------ |
| 09:30 | Welcome and introduction |
| 09:40 | What to reuse? What to cite?|
| 10:00 | How to cite: practical cases of citation |
| 10:50 | Focus on illustrations|
| 11:30 | End |
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## Objectives
- understand why citing is important;
- know how to reuse different types of content;
- cite properly, in the text and in the
liography.
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## Why is it important to cite?
- acknowledge someone else’s work
- put your own work in perspective
- re-use existing content in your own work
- guide the reader
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## Which types of content would you potentially reuse in your thesis?
:clock10: You have 2 minutes!
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## To cite or not to cite?
- unpublished results
- oral or private communications
- very old documents
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## How to cite properly
Pair to solve 1 of the 5 cases available on docs.google.com
Download the references from our Zotero group (export bibtex file): go.epfl.ch/CBP
Use your reference manager to cite
:clock10: You have 10 minutes!
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Group 1: [go.epfl.ch/CBP1](https://go.epfl.ch/CBP1)
Group 2: [go.epfl.ch/CBP2](https://go.epfl.ch/CBP2)
Group 3: [go.epfl.ch/CBP3](https://go.epfl.ch/CBP3)
Group 4: [go.epfl.ch/CBP4](https://go.epfl.ch/CBP4)
Group 5: [go.epfl.ch/CBP5](https://go.epfl.ch/CBP5)
Group 6: [go.epfl.ch/CBP6](https://go.epfl.ch/CBP6)
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## Wrap-up
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Answers are available at [go.epfl.ch/CBPanswers](https://go.epfl.ch/CBPanswers)
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## Secondary source
You read article 1 in which a section from article 2 is cited. You would like to insert this section from article 2 in your thesis. Which source do you cite?
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## How to reuse illustrations properly?
Test your skills by playing the
**Copyright Compliance Bingo**
:clock10: Be as fast as possible!
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## A few more examples...
- Reuse [pictures](https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/227089) under copyright
- Reuse [pictures](https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/214537) from the public domain
- Reuse [graphs](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169418303548)
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## Evaluation
Please fill in the form!
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## Pending questions?
citation.epfl.ch
Rational Bibliographic (in French)
Contact us at library@epfl.ch
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