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This libraryguide has been made by the Copyright Information Point to create an overview of information concerning Multimedia & Copyright.

Citing & Plagiarism

What's Plagiarism?

Plagiarism is the act of using someone else's words, sentences, or ideas and passing them off as your own without giving proper credit to the original source.

You might be plagiarizing if you:

  • Submit someone else's work as your own.
  • Buy a paper from a website or other source.
  • Copy sentences, phrases, paragraphs, or even ideas from someone else's work, published or unpublished, without giving the original author credit.
  • Copy any type of multimedia (graphics, audio, video, Internet streams), computer programs, music compositions, graphs, or charts from someone else's work without giving the original creator credit.
  • Cut and paste together phrases, ideas, and sentences from a variety of sources to write an essay.
  • Build on someone else's idea or phrase to write your paper without giving the original author credit.
  • Submit your own paper in more than one course without permission of the teachers.

ConSKEuences

Plagiarism is a serious academic offense. Breda University of Applied Sciences regards plagiarism as academic dishonesty. ConSKEuences of plagiarism include failing an assignment, receiving a lower course grade, and even failing a course. Sanctions for plagiarism differ by faculty.

What isn't plagiarism ?

Common knowledge does not need to be cited. (Citing means giving basic information about the original source you used so that someone else could track it down.) Common knowledge includes facts that are known by a lot of people and can be found in many sources. For example, you do not need to cite the following:

  • In 1865, following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson was elected as the 17th President of the United States.
  • William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and he died in 1616.
  • A genome is all the DNA in an organism, including its genes.

Avoiding Plagiarism:

  • Get to know your citation style guide.
  • Quote and cite phrases, sentences, and paragraphs taken directly from the original source.
  • Quote and cite statistics, charts, graphs, and drawings taken directly from the original source.
  • When you paraphrase or summarize, give credit to the original author.

And when in doubt, give a citation

Quoting: what is it?

Quoting means using someone else's exact words. Paraphrasing is putting someone else's words or ideas into your own words. Some of the most common mistakes made when writing a research paper are paraphrasing incorrectly and failing to give the original author credit. Even if you are using your own words, the ideas are still taken from someone else and must be cited.


Paraphrasing: what is it?

Paraphrasing is not simply rearranging or rewording an original passage.

Correct paraphrasing consists of:

  • Reading the original passage.
  • Understanding what the original author is saying.
  • Synthesizing (putting together) the information .
  • Expressing your understanding of these ideas in your own words.

Citing your Sources

Understanding how to credit your sources using short in-text citations (or footnotes) can help you avoid plagiarism.

Example:

  • Commercial use of the Web is now obvious and pervasive [Ebersole, 2005]

The longer citation in your “References” or “Works Cited” list (at the end of your paper) includes, at least, the author, title, and source information.

Example:

  • Ebersole, S. (2005). On their own: students'academic use of the commercialized web. Library Trends, 53, 530-538


The next two paragraphs will help you with reading the parts of a citation and translating the parts into APA citation style format.

Citing books
Here is the publication information for a book found in the Netherlands Central Catalogue (NCC):

  • Clayton, Lawrence A. A history of modern Latin America / Lawrence A. Clayton, Michael Conniff. Fort Worth, TX : Harcourt Brace College Humanities, c1999

APA-Format - as it would look in your “References” list:

  • Clayton, L.A., & Conniff, M. (1999). A history of modern Latin America. FortWorth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Humanities.

 

Citing journal articles
Here is the publication information for a journal article retrieved online from the National Online Contents on 17 July, 2006:

  • Green tea: prevention and treatment of cancer by nutraceuticals. By: Béliveau, Richard; Gingras, Denis. Lancet, 9/18/2004, Vol. 364 Issue 9439, p1021-1022, 2p. 

APA Format - as it would look in your "References" list:

  • Béliveau, R., & Gingras, D. (2004). Green tea: Prevention and treatment of cancer by nutraceuticals. Lancet, 364, 1021-1022. Retrieved Monday, July 17, 2006, from Online Contents database.

Note: for online articles you have to give information not just about the original journal where the article was published, but also what online database you got it from and when.

 

 

 

Different disciplines use different citation styles. Here are the 2 most commonly used styles:

APA: American Psychological Association

Frequently used in the sciences and social sciences. Consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.

APA Manual in English  (Book can be borrowed via BUas Library)
APA Manual in Dutch (Online publication)

Harvard: Harvard Style

This style is widely used in Economics. There are several variants. The guidelines for the Harvard Style have been published by several institutions such as the British Standards Institutions, the Australian Government Publishing Service (AGPS), and the University of Chicago Press. However, an official style guide does not exist.

Harvard (English)

(Source: Anglia Ruskin University)

 

At Breda University of Applied Sciences EndNote (reference management software) is used to manage all the publications you have used, for more information check the tab on Endnote on this page.

At Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUAS) EndNote (reference management software) is used to manage all the publications you have used, for more information check the tab on Endnote on this page.

The library has a licence for EndNote software for all its employees and students. EndNote is a powerful bibliographic software tool which helps you build, maintain and use a personal database with bibliographic data. You can simply add and manage data of important publications. The integration of EndNote with Word enables you to enter literature references and lists in your text while writing. There are more than 500 layout options to choose from. References can be added and removed afterwards without any problem. The layout can also be changed easily afterwards.

With EndNote you can: 

  • Enter literature references into a personal database or import references from search systems such as Science Direct, Hospitality and Tourism Index (Direct) and the Library catalogue and PiCarta (via filters, at BUAS they are installed – at home you have to do it yourself). An alternative means of importing references is mentioned at the second point
  • Via the EndNote interface you can search in systems that have Z39.50 access (via connection files). In this case, references can be imported into EndNote directly (an alternative to the first point)
  • Edit and search references
  • Enter references in your own texts from EndNote, in bibliographic styles such as Vancouver, Chicago, MLA, APA etc. (via styles)
  • Use templates in Word to format manuscripts according to publication styles of for instance APA, Chicago or individual journals
  • Include links to PDF files in your references
  • Store images in an EndNote library and enter these into manuscripts
  • Compile bibliographies on particular topics or themes, for instance, with category headings between each section of your bibliography

Fore more information please check the the Library webpage on Endnote.

Or check the library guide on referencing.