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

Electronic journals and Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)

Sometimes when accessing journal articles you may notice that they have been allocated a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). This DOI is a unique reference number and is a permanent way of keeping track of items on the web. It remains the same even if the publishers change the name of the journal or amends its website.

If your journal article has a DOI then the reference would include the DOI reference instead of the the URL of the provider. Here is an example of an eJournal article reference, with a Digial Object Identifier (DOI), in the Harvard style:

If you wish to find and access the above mentioned article, using its DOI, you should be aware that when entering the URL into your web browser you should start with http://www.dx.doi.iorg/ followed by the DOI number as follows: http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.chb.2011.08.016