Research Guides: ENST233 Introduction to Environmental Health: Citations

Citation and Avoiding Plagiarism

Plagiarism, along with all other forms of academic dishonesty, is a serious issue at the University of Maryland.

Plagiarism refers to any of the following activities:

Copying word for word, and neglecting to both enclose the words in quotation marks and to cite the source.
Summarizing or paraphrasing someone else's words or ideas and failing to cite the source.
Reproducing the organization or structure of another person's work and failing to cite it.
Any other act in which someone presents someone else's intellectual material as their own, whether it involves graphics, code, data, charts, etc.

Watch this Interactive Plagiarism Tutorial that steps you through practical examples of how to avoid plagiarism.

Read this online guide: Avoiding Plagiarism, Self-plagiarism, and Other Questionable Writing Practices: A Guide to Ethical Writing, developed by the Office of Research Integrity, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

Check your own writing and detect possible plagiarism with free tools listed on the Uprinting.com website. Get started with Grammica's free plagiarism checker.

OWL APA Guide
Quick, easy, and painless guide covering all the important aspects of APA style
APA Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition
APA's official manual. Not as easy to use as OWL, but does provide more detail for the trickier citations

APA Style Simplified by Barney Beins; Barney C. Beins; Bernard C. Beins
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781118289099
Publication Date: 2012-03-22
This is a compact but comprehensive guide to writing clearly and effectively in APA style. Demonstrates how to write objective scientific research papers using interesting prose Incorporates guidelines from the 6th edition of the APA publication manual Explores how to develop ideas, connect them to what others have written, and express them clearly Discusses the differences between written, oral, and poster presentations and offers instructions for applying APA style to each