Our Citation Conventions

Citations are profoundly important for their use of building credibility. Without citations, a reader would be unable to determine the original sources and therefore be unable to trust a body of work. Also, citations are used to give credit to other authors so that we are not plagiarizing their works. Perhaps most importantly, citations leave a trail for you, the reader, to follow should you want to look deeper and do some research of your own.

Throughout the text of our blog, we will be inserting hyperlinks whenever possible to cite our sources. We will be doing this so that you will have quick and easy access to our sources if you want to know more about them. If hyperlinking a source is not possible, we will cite our sources in the MLA style. If you are not familiar with the MLA style, please read more here.

We have chosen to use this style of citation for two primary reasons. Firstly, we suspect this will be the simplest and most familiar format for you. Secondly, this format will be the easiest to construct for us, the authors. We want you to be able to focus on the material of our posts without being distracted by a complicated citation scheme.