Research Guides: Family & Consumer Sciences: Research Issues

Why Cite or Reference?

To avoid plagiarism
To acknowledge debts to other writers
To verify quotations
To enable all those who read your work to locate your sources easily
To enable readers to follow-up and read more fully the cited author’s arguments
To demonstrate the body of knowledge upon which your research is based

It is Plagiarism if you.....

Copy sentences from a web page, a blog, a book, or an article and insert them into your paper without citing them.
Copy large chunks of text from one or more original sources and insert it into work.
Use an image or video from any source and do not cite it properly.
Quote or paraphrase from another paper without crediting the original author.
Cite data without crediting the original source.
Propose another author’s idea as if it were your own.
Fabricating references or using incorrect references.
Submitting someone else’s presentation, program, spreadsheet, or other file with only minor alterations.

Test your knowledge: take Indaiana University's plagiarism quiz

Mendeley

A free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. Download it at http://www.mendeley.com/.

Mendeley allows you to...

Automatically generate bibliographies
Collaborate easily with other researchers online
Easily import papers from other research software
Find relevant papers based on what you’re reading
Access your papers from anywhere online
Read papers on the go, with our new iPhone app

Basic information needed for citing

Book Journal Article

Author(s) Author(s)
Title Article Title
Year of Publication Article Page Numbers
Publisher Journal Title
Place of Publication Journal Volume Number
Edition (if not the first) Journal Issue Number
Year of Publication

Some useful links

Plagiarism

Plagiarism-Don't do it

Referencing

Research and Documentation Online

Literature Review

How to write a literature review Burmingham City University's Centre for academic success study guide
University of Leicester: Planning and conducting a dissertation research project - Provides guidance on the whole process, from begining to end. Includes choosing a topic, writing a proposal, time planning, literature review, collecting data and writing up.
Literature review online tutorial (RMIT, Aus). A set of short videos showing you how to think, plan, structure and write the introduction, body and conclusion of a literature review. An essential starting point for postgraduates.
What makes a good literature search?
The Review of Literature for Research

Using EndNote Web

Endnote Web is an online bibliographic/reference management tool available to you free through any of the Research4life databases: HINARI, AGORA, OARE . You must log in to get the full benefit of this tool.

Go through the powerpoint presentation and the exercises to become familiar with this resource.

Presentations and Exercises

EndNote Web Presentation
This presentation will guide you into using EndNote Web in the University of Ghana
EndNote Web Presentation
EndNote Web Exercise
Provides hands on after going through the presentation.
EndNote Web Exercise

Subject Guide

Theodosia Adanu

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