PLAGIARISM,

REFERENCING AND
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PLAGIARISM
WHAT IS PLAGIARISM?
Plagiarism is the use and presentation of
somebody elses work as though it were
your own.
Plagiarism also occurs when you re-word
someone elses ideas in your own work and
you do not give credit to the original source.
Let the reader you are using the words or ideas of
another author.

REFERENCING
WHY YOU SHOULD USE A
REFERENCING SYSTEM.
You are cheating by claiming someone elses
work as your own.
You are demonstrating that you have read
widely on a topic.
You are also supporting your hypothesis with
comments from expert authors.
This lends credibility to your own work.
 WHEN TO USE REFERENCE
You need to reference other
peoples work:
If you quote another author
word for word
If you are using someones ideas,
theories or models using your
words rather than their words.
If you refer to a specific fact or
piece of information.
If you use someones ideas that
are described in another book
Example
David McConnell suggests that
students in cooperative
environments perform at a higher
level than those working in
competitive or individualistic
environments. (2002,19).
David McConnell (2002) provides an
overview of collaborative and
cooperative learning and he
identifies the following benefits:
Between 1979 and 1999, the
number of women in employment
has risen by 6% (DfEE 2000).
McConnell (2002) describes the
work of Johnson and Johnson
(1999) who....
 REFERENCING FOR BOOKS
The name of the author: Cottrell, Stella.
The year of publication: (2003)
The title of the text: Skills for success: the
personal development planning handbook,
The edition (unless it is the first edition)
Publishers details (name and place):Basingstoke,
Palgrave Macmillan.

Cottrell, Stella. (2003) Skills for success: the

personal development planning
handbook, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
 REFERENCING FOR JOURNALS
The name of the author: Orshansky, M.
The year of publication: (1965)
The title of the paper: Counting the poor: another
look at the poverty profile,
The title of the journal and volume, issue and
spread of pages over which the article is found:
Social Security Bulletin, 28 (January), pp.3-29.

Orshansky, M. (1965) Counting the poor:

another look at the poverty profile, Social
Security Bulletin, 28 (January), pp.3-29.
 REFERENCING FOR ELECTRONIC
JOURNALS
The name of the author: Harnack, A and
Kleppinger, E.
The year of publication: (1997)
The title of the paper: Creating models for
electronic citations,
The title of the journal and volume, issue and
spread of pages over which the article is found:
Ariadne [online], 7.
The web address plus date accessed: Available:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue7/kairas/
[Accessed 15 August 2008]
Harnack, A and Kleppinger, E. (1997)
Creating models for electronic
citations, Ariadne [online], 7.
Available:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue7/kai
ras/ [Accessed 15 August 2008]
 REFERENCING FOR WEBSITES
The name of the author or organisation: Shields, G
and Walton, G.
The year of publication: (2001),
The title of the page or paper: Cite them right
How to organise bibliographical references
[online], Newcastle, University of Newcastle,
web address plus date accessed: Available:
http://www.unn.ac.uk/central/isd/cite/
[Accessed 25 February 2005]
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