Citing & Plagiarism

Why Cite?

To provide evidence for your arguments and adds credibility to your work. It shows that you have sought out and considered a variety of viewpoints on a given topic.
To help readers find your sources. It allows them to go through some of the steps you took to reach your conclusions.
To show your supervisor(s) the work that you have done.
To avoid plagiarism.

What kind of sources should you cite?

Direct quotations from a book, article, film, letter, email, lecture, etc.
Ideas you draw from a source but present entirely in your own words.
Paraphrases and summaries of books, journal articles, pamphlets.
Single words, short phrases, sentences and longer passages quoted from books or articles used.
Statistics.

Research/Thesis Writing

Printed Book | 2006

Available at UTP IRC - Open Collection - Level 1M (LB2369 .R958 2006) plus 1 more see all

Printed Book | 2012

Available at UTP IRC - Open Collection - Level 2M (T 11 .L37 2012) see all

EndNote is a bibliographic management software that:

Mendeley is a bibliographic management software that:

Collects and organizes citations found from many sources
Inserts these citations into documents & format bibliographies
Lets you drag & drop PDFs into your library & extracts the metadata to create a library
Allows you to highlight and annotate your PDFs and share with others

Your personal research assistant!

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

Benefit of Using Bibliographic Management Tools