General Guidelines for Citation

General Guidelines for Citation

1. Appropriate Level of Citation

   • Paraphrase
     • Directly quoting the words of others
       • Refers to data or data sets
         • Reprinting or adapting a table or figure, including images from the Internet that are free or licensed under a Creative Commons license
           • Reprinting a long text passage or a commercially copyrighted test item

2. Plagiarism

   • What's it?
     • Take ideas or conclusions that are not your own
       • Writers attempting to publish plagiarized work face:
         • Publication rejection
         • Censure in their place of employment.
         • Suspend assignment or course
         • Being expelled from your institution
   • How to avoid it?
     • For it
       • The source must be properly credited
         • As long as do the following
   • The following are not considered plagiarism
     • If the error is minor and is attributed to editorial oversight Of writing

3. Self-Plagiarism

   • What's it?
     • The author is considered to be stealing from himself when he reuses the material he has published.
       • All of the author's quoted words should be placed in
         • A single paragraph or in a few paragraphs
           • with a quote at the end of each
           • Open these paragraphs with similar sentences
             • "as I have previously discussed"

4. Correspondence Between Reference List and Text

   • APA Style uses
     • the author-date citation system
       • The date element of a reference list entry may include
         • the month
         • season
         • day