Tutorials

This general orientation is designed to help introduce students, staff, and faculty to the resources, services, and spaces available through the USC Libraries.

This tutorial covers unauthorized collaboration, cheating, falsifying records, and other elements of academic dishonesty. Developed by the USC Libraries in collaboration with USC’s Student Judicial Affairs and Community Standards; includes instructions for taking a screenshot to prove completion. NOTE: works best in Firefox browser.

This tutorial provides an overview on formatting common academic sources for the Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition following the Notes & Bibliography format.

This tutorial breaks down the 9 containers that can make up a Works Cited Source following MLA Style 9th Edition. It provides an overview with examples for common source types.

Welcome to Part 4 of the STEMM Research Workshop Series. Citations and Citation Management will provide you with strategies for avoiding plagiarism and introduce you to USC Libraries' citation and citation management resources.

This interactive tutorial explains the purposes of formal citation practices in an academic environment, and how those practices help you to avoid plagiarism, using examples and including checks for understanding.

This interactive tutorial explains the purposes of formal citation practices in an academic environment, and how those practices help you to avoid plagiarism, using examples and including checks for understanding.

This interactive tutorial covers how to identify when a citation is needed, and how to recognize the difference between paraphrasing and quoting, in order to avoid plagiarism. It uses examples and includes checks for understanding.

This interactive tutorial covers how to identify when a citation is needed, and how to recognize the difference between paraphrasing and quoting, in order to avoid plagiarism. It uses examples and includes checks for understanding.

Several citation styles like ACS, AMA, IEEE, and Vancouver require numeric references. Learn how to create a writing piece using this style without special citation management software.