Resource Centre: Referencing - Making a bibliography

Of course it does!

All of these are considered plagiarism:

• turning in someone else's work as your own
• copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
• failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
• giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
• changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
• copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not

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• It DOES NOT protect ideas, information, styles or techniques.
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This is an online plagiarism-checker. When you submit work it is scanned by the program which identifies plagiarism or possible plagiarism. It identifies the various types of plagiarisms through different colours.

Definitions:

Referencing - the process of giving credit to the original owner(s) of the intellectual property you use in your work.

Citation - each individual item that you include in your Bibliography

Bibliography - an alphabetical list of citations.

As you use an information source, record all the necessary information to create a citation. You can either use referencing software or record the information manually. It is important to be accurate to save time verifying your sources later.

• Author(s) / editor(s).
• Title.
• Place of publication.
• Publisher.
• Date of publication.
• Website - Title of the page
• Website - Title of the website
• Web address (URL) and Date Accessed.

PRINT RESOURCES

Surname, First initial. (Year published). Title of book. Place of publication: Publisher

Example:

Karkanis, C. (2018). Life in a Roman villa. South Melbourne: Penguin.

Surname, First initial. and Surname, First Initial. (Year published). Title of book. Place of publication: Publisher

Example:

Crowley, C. and Howell, S. (2022). Take Three Girls. Melbourne: Sterling Teen.

Title. (Year published). Place of publication: Publisher.

Example:

Life in a Roman Villa. (2018). South Melbourne: Penguin.

Surname, First initial. ed. Title. Place of publication: Publisher.

Surname, First initial. (Year published). Title of article. Name of Journal/Newspaper, Volume(Number), pp.

Example:

Marris, E. (2007). Australia Warms to Climate Change. Nature Reports Climate Change, 4(11), pp.90-90.

ONLINE RESOURCES

Title of website. (Year published). Title of webpage. [online] Available at: URL [accessed date].

Example:

Naa.gov.au. (2020). Australia’s prime ministers | naa.gov.au. [online] Available at: https://www.naa.gov.au/explore-collection/australias-prime-ministers [accessed 24 Jul. 2024].

Surname, Initial. (Year published). Title of webpage [online] Available at: URL [accessed date].

Example:

NASA. (2000). Latest NASA News Releases. [online] Available at: https://www.nasa.gov/news/ [accessed 24 Jul. 2024].

Surname, Initial. (Year published). Title of article. Name of newspaper/magazine. [online]. Date published Day /Month. Available at: URL [Accessed date].

Example:

Taylor, M. (2024). Taxing big fossil fuel firms ‘could raise $900bn in climate finance by 2030. The Guardian. [online]. 28 Apr. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/29/taxing-big-fossil-fuel-firms-raise-billions-climate-finance [accessed 29 Apr. 2024].

Source. (Year published). Title of program. [online] Available at: URL [Accessed date].

Example:

www.youtube.com. (n.d.). How to cite and reference an online video. [online] Available at: https://youtu.be/KyHwX_zjCt4 [Accessed 5 Dec. 2023].