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APA and Avoiding

PlagiarismDepartment of Social Work

UMD

Fall 2009Compiled by Anne Tellett

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Example C(40 or more words in quote):

Rhodes (1963) discusses another approach to

glazing:

An englobe, or a slip, is layer of colored clayapplied to the surface of a piece of pottery tochange its color or to add some decorativeaccent. There are many ways of developing,

coloring, aging, and applying englobes.(p. 160)

but be sure to double space the quotation!

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Format for Citing Multiple Authors

2 authors cite both names (every time)separated by &.

Example: (Day & Bye, 2000).

3-5 authors cite all authors 1st time (Falk,Raschick & Campbell, 2004); after that use et al.

Example: (Falk et al., 2000).

6 or more authorscite first authors name anduse et al.

Example: (Shepard et al., 2004).

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General APA Rules

What youre undoubtedly already doing

Using 1 margins on all sides

Indenting each paragraph 1/2 (57 spaces)

Double spacing the text

Numbering each page

Using 12-point font

Using a serif type face similar to Times

New Roman or Courier

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References Format

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Books

General format

Smith, E. B. (2004). Title of work: Often a

subtitle goes here. Location: Publisher.

Book edition other than the first edition

Smith, E. B., & Jones, C. D. (2005). Title ofbook(5th ed.). Location: Publisher.

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Note re: capitalization (anditalics*)

Book titles and journal article titles have thefollowing format:

Here is my title: A guidebook. or

Everything you wanted to know about APA: But wouldntask.

(Note it is not capitalized throughout, unless you have a proper name or its thefirst word after a : or -)

Journal titles are capitalized:Journal of Strange Sightings and Bad Jokes.

* Also note which are or are not italicized

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Internet sources

Let your reader know where to find thematerial you are citing and provide anaccurate address

For full details go to the OWL at PurdueWriting Lab Materials @

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/

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Citing Internet material

Some of the different types of onlinesources to be aware of:

-Articles from an Online journal

-Newspaper Articles

-Electronic Books

-Nonperiodical web document, web pageor report

-Government Report

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For additional information on reference listsand in text citation

http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c09_o.html

http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c09_o.htmlhttp://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c09_o.htmlhttp://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c09_o.htmlhttp://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c09_o.html

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General overview: Plagiarism

The following resource from UC Davis (2006) gives cleardescriptions of plagiarism, why you should care and how you canavoid it, as well as examples of how to paraphrase correctly. Whilethe document is from another institution the definitions of andconsequences for plagiarism are in line with UMDs own polices. It

should be noted that their advise when in doubt, cite ( UnderGuidelines for avoiding plagiarism, 6)is very sound. It is unlikelythat you will receive much in terms of point reductions foroverciting, while not citing can result in serious consequences,which could include failing the assignment or failing the course

(see UMDs Student code of conduct).

http://sja.ucdavis.edu/files/plagiarism.pdf

http://sja.ucdavis.edu/files/plagiarism.pdfhttp://sja.ucdavis.edu/files/plagiarism.pdfhttp://sja.ucdavis.edu/files/plagiarism.pdf

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Three broad acts consideredplagiarism

-failing to cite

-failing to quote

-failing to paraphrase correctly(Hacker, 1998 as quoted in Duckart, 2007, 2)

See the following link for Diana Hackers additionalexplanations on this:

http://www.humboldt.edu/~tdd2/Plagiarism.htm

http://www.humboldt.edu/~tdd2/Plagiarism.htmhttp://www.humboldt.edu/~tdd2/Plagiarism.htm

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Avoiding Plagiarism

Common Errors Missing attribution ( author )

Missing Quotation Marks

Inadequate Citation Paraphrase relies too heavily on source

Distortion of meaning

Missing Works Cited (References) entry Inadequate citation of images

(Faigley, 2006,p. 231)

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Additional resources

Is it plagiarism yet?http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/02/

Safe practices to avoid plagiarism

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/04/

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/02/http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/04/http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/04/http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/04/http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/04/http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/02/

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References

American Psychological Association (2001). Publication Manual of theAmerican Psychological Association ( 5th Ed.). Washington, D.C.:APA.

Duckart, T. (2007).Avoiding Plagiarism. Retrieved October 19, 2009,from http://www.humboldt.edu/~tdd2/Plagiarism.htm

Faigley, L. ( 2006). The brief Penguin handbook (2nd Ed.). New York:Pearson Education Inc.

UC Davis (2006).Avoiding plagiarism: Mastering the art of scholarship.Retrieved October 19, 2009 from

http://sja.ucdavis.edu/files/plagiarism.pdf

( dont forget to double space!)

http://www.humboldt.edu/~tdd2/Plagiarism.htmhttp://sja.ucdavis.edu/files/plagiarism.pdfhttp://sja.ucdavis.edu/files/plagiarism.pdfhttp://www.humboldt.edu/~tdd2/Plagiarism.htm