Creative Commons - licenses that enable collaboration, growth, and generosity in a variety of media.
Public Domain - the state of belonging or being available to the public as a whole, and therefore not subject to copyright.
Fair Use - United States copyright law allows you to use copyrighted works for educational purposes, without securing permission from the original creator, in very limited ways.
The MLA style guide is one of the most well known and used style guides and tends to be used across subjects but especially in English.
The APA style guide was developed by the American Psychological Association and is primarily used in the field of psychology, although many other professional fields have adopted the APA style.
The Turabian style is an easier version of the Chicago style guide. In these styles citations are made at the bottom of the page instead of on a works cited page at the end of the paper.
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