Referencing and avoiding plagiarism

Contents

1. Referencing and avoiding plagiarism
2. What is plagiarism?
   1. How to avoid plagiarism
   2. Examples of good and bad academic practice
   3. Activity 1
   4. Plagiarism of expression
3. Why you need to reference
4. What is referencing?
5. How to provide references 1
6. In-text citations (Author/date style)
7. How to provide references 2
   1. Footnotes, reference lists and bibliographies
   2. Activity 2
8. To reference or not to reference that is the question
9. Referencing: Think - Who? When? What? and Where?
10. Referencing books
    1. Referencing book chapters
    2. Activity 3
    3. Referencing eBooks
    4. eBooks: Finding the URL
    5. Activity 4
11. Referencing journal articles (print)
    1. Activity 5
12. Referencing electronic journal articles
    1. Electronic journals and Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)
    2. Activity 6
    3. Referencing online reports (Government department)
    4. Referencing the Internet (webpages)
    5. Activity 7
13. Managing your referencing: EndNote
14. Summary

Referencing and avoiding plagiarism

At the end of this guide you will have learnt about:

• What plagiarism is and why it is an important issue in further and higher education.
  
• What it is to reference and why it is important to reference the different sources you use in your work.
  
• What types of information you need to include when compiling references for your assignments. Please note that the formatting of your references will vary when you use different referencing styles.
  
• How to create references, or end-text citations, for different sources such as books and journal articles. The examples used in this guide follow the Northumbria adaptation of the Harvard referencing style (as in the book Cite them right).
  

Last updated November 2012