Which term is used to denote the crediting of sources and locating original materials, typically via a bibliography entry?

• A. Bibliographic Citation
• B. Plagiarism
• C. Works Cited
• D. Parenthetical Citation

Answer: (A)

Citing sources to give credit to authors and to help readers find the original materials is done through bibliographic citations. A bibliographic citation provides the details—author, title, publication information—so a reader can identify and locate the source, and it appears in the bibliography or works cited list. This is different from plagiarism, which is presenting someone’s work as your own without proper credit. It’s also distinct from a parenthetical citation, which is the short in-text note pointing to the full bibliographic entry, and from the works cited list itself, which is the collection of those entries rather than the act of crediting. So, the term that best describes this practice is bibliographic citation.