Citations for Electronic Sources
Citation instructions and examples from the ELHS Library staff & English Department.

Citation machine
MLA and APA citation formatting service for citing your sources. Excellent!

EasyBib
MLA citation formatting service for citing your sources. Another excellent site!




Cite Your Sources
Handy guide to creating footnotes, endnotes, and parenthetical references using APA, MLA, Chicago, and Turabian style sheets.

Copyright and Fair Use
Numerous links to web sites that relate to the copyright and fair use laws.

E.L.H.S. English Department
Links to help in writing research papers and using MLA citations for print and electronic sources.

Online Research Guide
Springfield Township (PA) High School Virtual Library's online research guide.

Parenthetical References
Using MLA style, this high school library Web site provides a clear explanation of parenthetical references.

Research Paper Guide
Gives sample bibliography cards for books, journals, web pages and web databases.



Edward Little High School has become increasingly concerned about instances of cheating and plagiarism that have taken place in our classes. In order to prevent plagiarism in the future, we ask students and their parent(s) to read the following definition, explanations, and consequences. According to Webster's New World College Dictionary, to plagiarize is "to take ideas, writings, etc. from another and pass them off as one's own."

To avoid plagiarism in the definition above, quotation marks indicate that the exact words used in Webster's dictionary were copied, and the source of the quotation is clearly stated.

Paraphrasing (rewording) or rearranging the words of a source does not protect you from being accused of plagiarism. Notice that the definition above includes taking ideas from another and turning them in as your own work.

Citations that clearly state the sources of ideas used in writing projects will protect you from a charge of plagiarism. The English department uses the MLA (Modern Language Association) format for citing sources.


Of course, downloading an entire paper from the internet, including proper citations, is a serious form of plagiarism. So is submitting a paper written by someone else. Teachers often require students to do some writing in class or to turn in preliminary notes and drafts to help prevent wholesale cheating of this sort.

The consequence for plagiarism is a grade of 0 (zero) for any plagiarized work that is submitted for a grade, including final drafts or portfolios that contain some plagiarized material. Students will not be allowed to rewrite and/or resubmit the paper or portfolio. If these are major assignments, this grade of zero may result in failing a class.