Skip to Main Content

Citation politics

This guide supports the evaluation of citation practices

How to improve your citation practices

 The following resources can support you to:

  1. consider the ways in which citation is not a neutral act (it involves a conscious decision that reflects our positionality)
  2. examine your citation practices 
  3. take a proactive and critical approach to citation when engaged in writing, research or teaching

 Resources for supporting conscientious citational practices

Evaluating sources: Act Up

Use the following evaluation checklist to examine your sources.

Evaluating sources: citation politics 

In this guide you will find tips for evaluating your sources and prompts for reflecting on your citation practices.  

 

Cultivating a conscientious citation practice | Unwritten histories

This blog post, by historian Andrea Eidinger, is about how citation politics connect with teaching practice.

"What You Can Do to Cultivate a Conscientious Citational Practice" and "Other things you can do" provide ways you can develop a proactive approach to examining the citations used in curriculum design or research and writing.

 

Aus data logo

 

The Gender Balance Assessment Tool (GBAT)

This web based tool estimates the gender balance in syllabi and bibliographies

The Gray Test

Does your bibliography complies with the “Gray test”?

To pass, your work must cite the scholarship of at least two women and two scholars of color and must  discuss the work meaningfully in the text (named after Kishonna Gray’s (@KishonnaGray) #citeherwork

IBISWorld logo

 


Library Instagram

Library Blogs

Library Contacts