Building Credibility with Citations & Attribution

Attribution and hyperlinks allow you to cite your sources in professional, digital documents.

The following principles and examples demonstrate multiple ways to build credibility with readers by letting them know that your information comes from recent, reliable information sources.

Citations for Digital Documents

  • Conveying Credibility
  • Providing Attributive Tags or Signal Phrases
  • Archiving & Embedding Hyperlinks
  • Synthesizing Multiple Sources
  • Quoting Secondary Sources
  • Providing Attribution for Sources without Hyperlinks
  • Formatting Titles
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