Referencing and PlagiarismExtended Project

Why use referencing in your project?

It is important that you show the reader where you have used someone else’s ideas or words. 

When you reference correctly you are demonstrating that you have read widely on a topic.

Why use referencing in your project?

You are also supporting your hypothesis with comments from expert authors. This lends credibility to your own work.

By correctly referencing you allow the marker or reader to follow-up your references and to check the validity of your arguments for themselves. 

For books, record:

The author’s or editor’s name (or names)The year the book was publishedThe title of the bookIf it is an edition other than the firstThe city the book was published inThe name of the publisherThe page number of the work you want to

quote

For journal articles record:

The author’s name or namesThe year in which the journal was publishedThe title of the articleThe title of the journal The page number/s of the article in the

journalAs much other information as you can find

about the journal, for example the volume and issue numbers

For electronic resources record:

The date you accessed the sourceThe electronic address or emailThe type of electronic resource (email,

discussion forum, WWW page, etc)

Summarising an author’s workPhillips (1999) suggests that generational

change is inevitable and continuous.

Davis (2005) believes that the decline of the Roman empire was inevitable by 416AD.

Referencing QuotesWhen organising our time, Adair (1988: 51)

states that ‘the centrepiece will tend to be goals and objectives’.

ORWhen organising our time ‘the centrepiece

will tend to be goals and objectives’ (Adair, 1988: 51).

FootnotesThese can be used to either reference

academic work or to explain a concept.They can either be collated at the bottom of

each page or on a reference list at the end of your project.

ExampleIt has long been argued that pork and leek

sausages are better than pork and apple.1 However, Neville has recently produced conclusive evidence to the contrary.2

1 John Butcher, The Perfect Sausage: From Pigsty to Plate (Cumberland: Pork Press, 1990), pp. 78-90.

2 Harry Neville, Breakfast Bangers (London: Brown, 2005), pp. 56-98.

PlagiarismFailure to properly reference using the

Harvard system may make the reader think that you are cheating by claiming someone else’s work as your own.

Please remember that plagiarism is not just when you directly copy words from another student’s or expert’s work.  Plagiarism also occurs when you re-word someone else’s ideas in your own work and you do not give credit to the original source. 

Consequences

If you are suspected of plagiarism you may find that your assignment receives a grade of zero.

If you were at university and were caught your position could at the institution could be reviewed!

If in doubt reference it!

Content for this presentation was taken from:1 The University of Exeterhttp://

education.exeter.ac.uk/dll/studyskills/harvard_referencing.htm

2 The University of Bristolhttp://

www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/referencing/referencing%20skills/page_07.htm

3 Wikipediahttp://

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Civil_War