Greetings to all new and old members !
In order to facilitate the members to improve the quality of their content, I have decided to share some guidelines frequently. I must add that mostly all the members here are producing top notch content. Still someone (new or old member) can learn a thing or two from these guidelines.
A2- Click on Image Usage Rights and select Creative Commons Licenses. Google will filter out images with creative common license. Images that are free to use and modify when given proper credit or attribution. Don't select Commercial and other licenses because then Google will display the images that may reuqire payment.
I must add that mostly all the members here are producing top notch content. Still someone (new or old member) can learn a thing or two from these guidelines.
Citation is giving credit to original creator or author of the published work. It is illegal and morally incorrect to use someone else's work without their permission or giving credit to them.
For example, you post a beautiful picture or write a post that you worked hard on for hours and you see someone else using your work without asking you or giving you the deserved credit and earning bucks through it. How would you feel? Exploited ?!
For this reason, we give citations when we share someone else's work.
Text Citation
MLA in-text citation style uses the author's last name and the page number from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken, for example: (Smith 163). If the source does not use page numbers, do not include a number in the parenthetical citation: (Smith).
To write a text in quotes, we use blockquote tag.
I read some of the posts of the contest, some people used main points from other sites. It was all right but it would have been better, if they had mentioned the sources at the end of the post.
I hope next time everyone will take care of that. It will not only make your post look professional but most importantly your credibility as an author will increase as your readers will trust your work.
Image Citation
I want to mention again that presenting your google search as a source is not enough. You have to provide the original link because there we can read the licensing information about that image too. Every image you find on interent is not free to use. Some creators don't want their images to be used in any way, some want payment, some want proper credit, some don't allow remixing or editing and some allow it with providing details.
I will share the whole process of finding images and citing them with an example.
1- Search your required image in the Google. Click this filter option button.
2- Click on Image Usage Rights and select Creative Commons Licenses. Google will filter out images with creative common license. Images that are free to use and modify when given proper credit or attribution. Don't select Commercial and other licenses because then Google will display the images that may reuqire payment.
3- Now open any image. I chose the one from Wiki Commons . You can read its licensing detail here too. Now this link can be provided as a source but if you look closely the link to original site is also given. So it is better to give that as a source.