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Community & Health Sciences: Research Resource Guide

Referencing & Plagiarism

Learning outcomes

By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

  • understand plagiarism and how to avoid it;
  • understand the difference between citations and references;
  • use the APA 7th edition style manual to construct accurate citations and references. 

 

NB: Before you move onto the NEXT LESSON, please click on the NEXT TAB (Plagiarism) as part of the learning for this lesson.   

Plagiarism is taking and using another person’s ideas, or way of expressing them, and passing them off as your own by failing to give appropriate acknowledgement. This includes material sourced from the internet, staff, other students, and published and unpublished works.

Plagiarism includes:

  • paraphrasing and presenting another person’s work or ideas without a reference
  • copying work either in whole or in part
  • presenting designs, codes or images as your own original work when they are not
  • using exactly the same phrases, passages or structure without reference to the author or source
  • reproducing lecture notes without proper acknowledgement.

It is in your best interest to watch the following short video tutorial (2m:21s) to get a good grasp on the term "plagiarism", as well as the strategies you can use to avoid plagiarising others' work.

Published by: GCFLearnFree.org (open-source tutorials)

Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)

NB: Before you move onto the NEXT LESSON, please click on the NEXT TAB (Citations & References) as part of the learning for this lesson.  

All the academic papers require referencing or citing of information sources used.

The improper citation/reference or no citation/reference will lead to plagiarism. Therefore, it is important to provide the source information in the form of citation and reference.

The citation appears in the body of the paper whereas reference appears at the end.

For more citation/reference help visit: https://apastyle.apa.org/

Please watch the following short video tutorial (3m:01s) that introduces the purpose and basic conventions of citing sources in-text and in a reference list using the American Psychological Association (APA) Style, 7th edition, 2019.

Published by CSUDH Library

Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)

NB: Before you move onto the NEXT LESSON, please click on the NEXT TAB (APA Referencing Style) as part of the learning for this lesson.  

Use this reference manual to guide you when citing and formatting reference entries in accordance with
principles established by the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition
(2020). 

For more information about APA style, visit: https://apastyle.apa.org/ or https://apastyle.apa.org/blog

 

NB: You have completed the last lesson. Please review any of the previous lesson materials if you did not gain a good understanding thereof.  

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