Citation and proper attribution of sources rest at the core of academic research. Musselman Library provides a Citation Guide to the major citation styles with links to helpful resources online.
For more information on citation, see our citation guide.
This guide was created for Professor Cushing-Daniel's FYS 117-3, The Economics of Poverty, Fall 2024, by Meggan Smith.
Reference books are a great place to start exploring a topic. In addition to general information, they include references that can guide you to more resources — saving you time and effort. This is also a good way to find synonyms or alternate terms that might be useful.
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The library subscribes to more than 300 different databases, and they all work in different ways. Deciding what kind of information you want and what perspective you want that information to be presented from can help you choose the right search tool for that part of your research process.