When completing your assignments, you are expected to be contributing to disciplinary knowledge building by sharing your own ideas, evaluations and arguments. In other words you are expected to submit original work and give credit to other peoples' ideas, i.e., citing your sources of ideas.
TIPS:
To cite sources use the citation style recommended by your instructor. The following links provide you with useful quick guides to citing sources using different styles.
Citing in APA: check out the APA Style Quick Guide(7th ed.) OR The OWL at Purdue
Citing in Chicago: check out the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition Quick Guide OR The OWL at Purdue
Citation Guide for Business - Based on the Chicago Manual (McMaster University)
It is important to cite not only the literature consulted but also the data or statistics used. The elements of a data/statistics citation include:
The following links provide you with useful guides to citing statistical data. Use these along with the citation style guide recommended by your instructor.
Statistics Canada's Guide "How to Cite Statistics Canada Products"
How to Cite Data (UBC Library)
Find articles and journals based on citation information, even if you only know part of the cite.
A free web and desktop based citation manager with components of academic social networking that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research:
https://www.mendeley.com/
A free and easy-to-use web based citation manager that's great for capturing Web pages and other non-traditional references:
https://www.zotero.org/