Plagiarism and Referencing

General issues

• Newspapers example
• A new American president has been elected (Star 22 February 2001, p.12)…. However in the Sun Review (23 February 2001, p.23)
• Anonymous work
• In case where the author’s name is not available, use sponsoring organisation. If both not available then use ‘Anon’

General issues

• Publication date not available
• Then use ‘no date’
• It seems that technology has encouraged people to … (Mores, no date)

General issues

• Citation for sources other than the original
• In general, students must make an attempt to locate the original source of a quotation. However, there may be instance where the original source is inaccessible for some reasons, then the indirect quote is permissible.
• Stallings and Stevensons, 1987 (in Chappal 2000, p. 23) defined a digital signal as “……………”

General issues

• Tables and figures either extracted or taken whole
• Be preceded by Source:
• Be enclosed in parentheses
• (Source: Edwards et al. 2000, p.67)

Animal	Population (1990)	Population (2000)
Zebra	300,000	250,000
Lion	60,000	68,000