Whether you’re a senior writing your thesis, a junior working on your qualifying exam, or a first year writing your first research paper, this resource is for you. This is an opportunity to opt-in to a personal challenge to reflect on, commit to, and share your own ethical citation practices. This tool is meant only as a guide, and we encourage you to share your experience if you are willing.

This challenge is inspired by the Citation Practices Challenge established by Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang, and Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández:

"Reflect on the way you approach referencing the work of others in your own writing, presenting and thinking. Whose work do you build on to make arguments, describe the field and the problems you engage in your work? Who are you citing, and why do you cite them (and not others)?

Consider what you might want to change about your academic citation practices. Who do you choose to link and re-circulate in your work? Who gets erased? Who should you stop citing?

We invite you to join our Citation Practices Challenge. We want to interrogate the techniques of selection in our own work. We desire to be more intentional about our citation practices, to more fully consider the politics of citation. We aim to stop erasing Indigenous, Black, brown, trans*, disabled POC, QT*POC, feminist, activist, and disability/crip contributions from our intellectual genealogies."