You’ve finished Citation and Referencing — well done. Here’s a quick recap to lock it in, and the best places to go next.

What you’ve learned

Across five lessons, you explored:

• Why Citations Matter — credit, verification, and avoiding plagiarism.
• APA Citation Style — author-date, for the social sciences.
• MLA Citation Style — author-page, for the humanities.
• Chicago Citation Style — footnotes or author-date, flexible by field.
• Citation Management Tools — letting Zotero do the formatting for you.

Make it stick

Set up a free reference manager, save three sources, and generate a bibliography — then switch it from APA to MLA in one click.

Where to go next

If you enjoyed this course, these are the natural next steps:

• Academic Writing Skills — strengthen the writing your citations support.
• Academic Research Fundamentals — ground your referencing in solid research.

And the rest of the FRELIP toolkit is always there to put your new skills to work:

• Discovery search — find books and articles.
• Research guides — curated starting points by subject.
• Open-access journal feeds — keep current.
• All FRELIP courses — browse the full catalogue.

This courseware is provided free by FRELIP. Original text released under CC BY 4.0; linked resources remain under their own licences. Curated by the FRELIP Open Courseware editorial team.