Dissertation citation is a compulsory requirement for any dissertation. Without it you will never have your dissertation approved. The process of making dissertation citation can be quite tricky, since it has a lot of rules to be considered. You should accurately follow all these rules, because the mistakes in dissertation citation are also unacceptable.
 
In this article we would like to introduce the most frequently asked questions about dissertation citation.
 
Why dissertation citation is important?
 
To conduct good research for your dissertation, you will have to find numerous sources. All these sources give you the needed information and contribute to your work. They are considered to be the intellectual property. If you do not know, intellectual property includes: the articles from the newspapers, magazines and journals; the articles in electronic format; books or some chapters from the books; previous dissertations and research projects; movies and videos. You will be using the ideas for your dissertations from all these sources. If you do not make proper dissertation citation, it will be regarded as stealing or plagiarism.
Dissertation citation is also important for the readers, since they have a possibility to find the original sources.
 
Where dissertation citation should appear?
 
There are two options for making dissertation citation. It can appear within the text or at the end of your work. Using dissertation citation within the text means making footnotes, endnotes or parethenticals. Dissertation citation that appears at the end of your work is arranged in the form of a list and can be called: bibliography, reference list or works cited. This will depend on the style of your dissertation.
 
What information should dissertation citation contain?
 
Dissertation citation should give full information on the used sources. It means you should give information on the author, the name of a book/article etc., the date and place of publication, the publisher. Take into account that there are different requirements for arranging dissertation citation for books, articles, electronic sources and so on.