Management bitesize fyp part 3 nov 2016
- 1. Referencing and Citation in your Final Year Project Catie Tuttle Subject Librarian (Business Undergraduates) Catie.Tuttle.1@city.ac.uk
- 2. What I’m going to cover 1. Guidelines for avoiding plagiarism and what it is 2. Where to find out how to reference what you’ve found 3. Cite Them Right Online – and other tools for constructing references.
- 3. Plagiarism: what is it? University Definition: ■ “Plagiarism is passing off the ideas or words of someone else as though they were your own. It applies equally to the work of other students as to published sources.” ■ “Submitting, as one's own, an assignment that another person has completed. ■ Downloading information, text, artwork, graphics or other material from the internet and presenting it as one's own without acknowledgment. ■ Quoting or paraphrasing material from a source without acknowledgment.” ■ Using other people’s ideas without acknowledgement. City University London (2012) ‘City University Assessment and Feedback Policy’ Available at: http://www.city.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/68921/assessment_and_feedback_policy.pdf (Accessed 22 September 2016).
- 4. What will you need to reference? ■ Journal articles ■ Books and book chapters ■ News articles ■ Market research ■ Company reports ■ Financial data … and anything else that you and your supervisor/tutors identify: government documents, corporate websites, conference proceedings, lecture slides, etc.
- 5. Why put citations and references into your work? ■ We cite all ideas, quotes, data, opinions, etc. that are not our own by telling the reader where it came from. ■ Careful referencing protects you from accidental plagiarism ■ Reference as you go along in your notes and your work so you can always trace ideas back ■ Good referencing makes your work more scholarly: ■ Shows your wide range of reading & sources ■ Shows good awareness of academic norms & standards ■ Helps back up your arguments with work of other scholars ■ Can show how hard you worked!
- 6. Guidance on Referencing ■ Cass uses Harvard Style References ■ Use Cite Them Right Online to set out your references. It covers a huge number of source types. ■ Library Shorts Film: Basics of Referencing ■ Bibliographic Management Software ■ RefWorks – university’s subscription ■ Mendeley, Zotero – free online ■ You can also check with your supervisor or ask any librarian if you’re unsure
- 7. For example… Journal articles You can see good referencing habits whenever you look at a journal article. Example of a Harvard Style reference: In-text citation: Some have argued that certain qualities can be identified early in the recruitment process (Ready, 2010). Reference list: Ready, D. et al (2010) ‘The anatomy of a high potential’, Business Strategy Review, 21(3), pp. 52-55.
- 8. For example… Book chapters In-text citation: According to Thiel and Masters, ‘as globalisation advances, people perceive the world as one homogenous, highly competitive marketplace: the world is “flat”’ (2014, p. 98). Reference list: Thiel, P. and Masters, B. (2014) ‘Secrets’ in Zero to one: notes on startups, or how to build the future. London: Virgin Books, pp. 93-106.
- 9. For example… webpage with an organisation as author In text: (EasyJet plc, 2015) Reference list: EasyJet plc (2016) Operational Efficiency. Available at: http://corporate.easyjet.com/corporate-responsibility/our-people/operational- efficiency.aspx?sc_lang=en (Accessed: 26 October 2016).
- 10. Top tips ■ Cass uses the Harvard Style ■ This means use the author-date format for citations (Tuttle, 2016, p. 5). ■ Three Vital Things to Remember: 1. Be Clear: your aim is to help your reader find the same thing you read. 2. Be Consistent: pick one style and use it all the way through your project – Cite Them Right Online will help you with this. 3. Credit all the ideas you’ve used in your work, not just direct quotes: demonstrates the hard work you’ve done and protects you from accidental plagiarism.
- 11. Referencing and Citation Help ■ Cite Them Right Online Brilliant guide to Harvard Referencing, best place to find layouts, help, advice. ■ Books in the library: • Neville, C. (2010) Complete Guide to Referencing and Avoiding Plagiarism, 2nd ed. Maidenhead: Open University Press. • Pear, R., Shields, G. (2016) Cite Them Right: the Essential Referencing Guide, 10th ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ■ Subject Guide Citing and Referencing Tab: • http://libguides.city.ac.uk/business/referencing ■ Tools to help: • Citation software: RefWorks, Mendeley. More complex but helpful for storing/reusing references. Contact the library for the RefWorks code. Mendeley is free. • Word has built-in functions as well.
- 12. Any Questions? Please come and ask! Help In Person: Library desks on the 2nd and 5th Floor, and at Cass Contact Catie: catie.tuttle.1@city.ac.uk or 020 7040 4151 General enquiries email for Cass: CassLibrary@city.ac.uk Enquiries phone number: +44 (0) 207 040 8191 Help Online: Library Website: www.city.ac.uk/library Subject Guides: http://libguides.city.ac.uk/management
- 13. City, University of London Northampton Square London EC1V 0HB United Kingdom T: +44 (0)20 7040 4151 E: catie.tuttle.1@city.ac.uk http://www.city.ac.uk/library
Editor's Notes
- #4: Even if you don’t mean to plagiarise, you can still be accused of it.
- #7: Unsure about referencing? Visit the Level 5 helpdesk and any librarians at this desk can help.
- #8: Briefly, more next week.
- #9: Briefly, more next week.
- #11: Insert the in text citation at the end of the sentence in which you quote, paraphrase or summarise idea, not at the end of the paragraph where you discuss it. If there is a page number on the PDF you’re reading, then you should specify the page number in your citation. If you want to cite a work referred to in a text you’re reading, this is called ‘secondary referencing’, and there are instructions on Cite Them Right for how to cite it.