Academic Honesty
Quote Your Source
You must acknowledge all sources of information that you use. Pretending that the ideas of others are your own is called plagiarism. The purpose of your reference is to acknowledge the source of information and to enable that source to be found again.
Students undertaking research are expected to list all sources of information in the following ways using APA 6th edition:
- A reference/citation refers to a resource from which an idea or direct quotation has been taken. An ‘in-text’ reference, citing the author and date, is placed in the sentence or below a quotation inside curved brackets.
- A references list is an alphabetical listing of all resources that have been referenced in the text of the report, essay or assignment.
- A bibliography is an alphabetical listing of all resources that have been used, including all those referenced in the text of the work. It is placed at the end of the report, essay or assignment.
Plagarism
Constant Vigilance
APA Referencing Style
UWA: APA Citation Style: Contains examples of a wide variety of referenced resources
Social Media Citation Guide
Citemaker - Online Referencing Tool
Citemaker is an online referencing tool which will help you create correctly formatted references for your assignments. It offers help with print and online resources as well as many others. If you sign up for an account, you can save lists of references. Otherwise just use it as and when you need it and copy and paste the references you make. jAPA is a slightly less complicated version of the Citemaker to help younger students.
What do you need to cite?
Citing Building Tools
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Free automatic bibliography generator that supports ALP, MLA, Chicago, and Turabian formatting
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Assists students and professional researchers to properly credit the information they use.
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Guidelines, structures and examples for citing common sources in APA, MLA and Chicago Notes styles.
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Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.
In Microsoft Office Word, you can automatically generate a bibliography based on the source information that you provide for the document.