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

eBooks: Finding the URL

In the next activity (number 4) we will look at the reference for the eBook Effective study skills: unlock your potential which is available from the University Library in both print and electronic formats.

This is a partial screen image of the dawsonera record. As part of an eBook reference you need to include the URL where you accessed the book but in this example what is the URL for Dawsonera?

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Images 'reproduced with permission'
Price, G. and Maier, P. Effective study skills: unlock your potential. Harlow: Pearson Longman 2007

There are a number of ways you can find out the web address (URL) for your eBook. This information may be displayed in the address bar at the top of the webpage or you may need to look for it somewhere else.

If you right click anywhere on the eBook website that you are viewing and select Properties you can find the URL. It may resemble the one shown in this example:

You should use the homepage URL of the book collection or publisher rather than the longer web address. In this example the homepage URL is http://www.dawsonera.com/.

Don't forget, if you are not sure you can ask a member of staff.