Referencing a Scientific Paper. Why do we reference papers?

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Referencing a Scientific Paper

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Referencing a Scientific Paper

Why do we reference papers?

Why do we reference papers?

Provides foundation for reported work

Why do we reference papers?

Provides foundation for reported work

Gives credit where due

Why do we reference papers?

Provides foundation for reported work

Gives credit where due

Allows the reader to get additional information

Why do we reference papers?

Provides foundation for reported work

Gives credit where due

Allows the reader to get additional information

Saves space

Why do we reference papers?

Why do we reference papers?

Ethical Guidelines to Publication of Chemical Research

ACS Publications

http://pubs.acs.org/ethics/ethics.pdf

What should be referenced?

What should be referenced?

Ideas that are not your own but are not “general” knowledge

What should be referenced?

Ideas that are not your own but are not “general” knowledge

Techniques that were developed by or have been reviewed by others

What should be referenced?

Ideas that are not your own but are not “general” knowledge

Techniques that were developed by or have been reviewed by others

Key results that you use, whether yours or someone else’s

What should be referenced?

Ideas that are not your own but are not “general” knowledge

Techniques that were developed by or have been reviewed by others

Key results that you use, whether yours or someone else’s

Databases or other key resources that you use

What should be referenced?

Ideas that are not your own but are not “general” knowledge

Techniques that were developed by or have been reviewed by others

Key results that you use, whether yours or someone else’s

Databases or other key resources that you use

Any direct quotes or reproduced figures

What should not be referenced?

What should not be referenced?

Ideas or concepts that are so basic as to be “general” knowledge in the field

What should not be referenced?

Ideas or concepts that are so basic as to be “general” knowledge in the field

Ideas or concepts that are not actually used in the paper

What should not be referenced?

Ideas or concepts that are so basic as to be “general” knowledge in the field

Ideas or concepts that are not actually used in the paper

Work of your own that is not relevant to the research reported

What should not be referenced?

Ideas or concepts that are so basic as to be “general” knowledge in the field

Ideas or concepts that are not actually used in the paper

Work of your own that is not relevant to the research reported

Large numbers of redundant sources

Proper Referencing?

16-Fold Degeneracy of Peptide Plane Orientations from Residual Dipolar Couplings: Analytical Treatment and Implications for Protein Structure DeterminationJean-Christophe Hus, Loic Salmon, Guillaume Bouvignies, Johannes Lotze, Martin Blackledge, and Rafael BruschweilerJACS ASAP (Article) DOI: 10.1021/ja804274s

Proper Referencing?

How and Where

How and Where

If the reference is to the entire subject of the sentence, the citation can go at the end

How and Where

If the reference is to the entire subject of the sentence, the citation can go at the end

If the reference is to a subset of the contents of a sentence, the citation should go at the end of the relevant sentence fragment

How and Where

If the reference is to the entire subject of the sentence, the citation can go at the end

If the reference is to a subset of the contents of a sentence, the citation should go at the end of the relevant sentence fragment

Any direct quote, from someone else’s work or your own, must go in quotes and be referenced

An example

What is plagiarism?

What is plagiarism?

To steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, http://www.merriam-webster.com

What is plagiarism?

To steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own

To use (another's production) without crediting the source

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, http://www.merriam-webster.com

What is plagiarism?

To steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own

To use (another's production) without crediting the source

To commit literary theft

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, http://www.merriam-webster.com

What is plagiarism?

To steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own

To use (another's production) without crediting the source

To commit literary theft

To present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, http://www.merriam-webster.com

Plagiarism includes:

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Plagiarism includes:

Copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit

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Plagiarism includes:

Copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit

Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks

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Plagiarism includes:

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

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Plagiarism includes:

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

http://www.plagiarism.org

Plagiarism includes:

Copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not

http://www.plagiarism.org

Plagiarism includes:

Copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not

Copying your own words, ideas or figures from a source that owns copyright to them

http://www.plagiarism.org

Paraphrasing

Paraphrasing

Paraphrasing

What if?

What if?

Reference 2 is the paper that originally had this sentence?

What if?

Reference 2 is the paper that originally had this sentence?

Reference 2 is to several papers, only one of which had this sentence?

Direct copying

Direct copying

What if?

What if?

The copied sentence is in the thesis of someone who was not an author of the paper with the original sentence?

What if?

The copied sentence is in the thesis of someone who was not an author of the paper with the original sentence?

The copied sentence is in the thesis of someone who was an author of the paper with the original sentence?

Direct copying

What if?

What if?

The same person authored both papers?

What if?

The same person authored both papers?

The same person authored both papers and they were in the same journal?

Direct copying

What if?

What if?

The same person authored both papers?

What if?

The same person authored both papers?

The same person authored both papers and they were in the same journal?

What if?

The same person authored both papers?

The same person authored both papers and they were in the same journal?

The citation in this sentence is to the original sentence?