A session on referencing & plagiarism presented to the Logistics Management 214 students at Stellenbosch University

1. Referencing & Plagiarism
PeplerHead
FacultyLibrarian:EconomicandManagementSciences
peplerh@sun.ac.za

2. In this session we’ll be looking at
Referencing - distinguishing between sources
Plagiarism
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The General Elements
Authors. Year. Title.
Source Title/details. Link/doi

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Distinguishing between sources
Book Journal Article
Report

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Book
A published work on a specific topic,
usually contains chapters. Can be
hardcopy or electronic. Written by a
specific person (author), or under an
editor. It will have:
• Publisher
• Place of publication
• Year
• ISBN

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Book - Example
Hugos, M. 2018. Essentials of supply
chain management. 4th edition.
Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons.
Authors. Year. Title. Source
Title/details. Link/doi

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Book Chapter
Be careful of chapter in books that you
find electronically
Reflexivity and Development Economics
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230250598_
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Academic Journal
A periodical or serial publication in
which information on a specific topic
is published in article format. It can
be electronic or hard copy. It will
have:
• Title
• Publisher
• Year
• Volume number
• Issue number
• ISSN

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Journal - Example
Search the African Finance Journal

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Academic Article
Topic specific information within an
academic discipline, published in a
Journal. It can be electronic or hard
copy. It will have:
• Source Title References
• Article title
• Abstract
• Year
• Volume number
• Issue number
• Page number

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Article - Example
Cashel-Cordo, P. & Craig, S.G. 1990. The public
sector impact of international resource
transfers. Journal of Development Economics
[Electronic], 32(1): 17-42. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-3878(90)90050-L
Authors. Year. Title. Source
Title/details. Link/doi

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Report
A document that presents
information in an organized format
for a specific audience and purpose,
reporting something that has been
observed, done or investigated. Can
be annual or once off. It will have
• Report title
• Author
• Corporate body/Company
• Year

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Report - Example
World Health Organization. 2018. World health
statistics 2018: monitoring health for the SDGs,
sustainable development goals. World Health
Organization. Available:
https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/272596
Authors. Year. Title. Source
Title/details. Link/doi

14. Referencing - Help
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15. Referencing - Help
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16. Referencing - Help
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17. Research help
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18. Exercise 1
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Find the documents in the worksheet,
determine what type of document it is,
and provide the reference.

19. Exercise 1
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Report:
Pricewaterhouse Cooper. 2018. Strengthening
Africa’s gateway to trade [Online]. Available:
https://www.pwc.co.za/en/assets/pdf/strength
ening-africas-gateways-to-trade.pdf [2022,
February 23].

20. Exercise 1
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Book:
Havenga, J. & Hobbs, I. 2004. A practical
guide to strategy: making strategic thinking,
development and implementation accessible.
Stellenbosch: Sun Press.

21. Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the theft and use of the ideas, material and
other intellectual property of others that are passed off as
one’s own
This can take multiple forms
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OBVIOUS FORMS:
Buying / borrowing a paper and
copying it
Hiring somebody to write for you
Cutting and pasting text
Direct translations
Citing sources you didn’t use
LESS OBVIOUS FORMS:
Not giving proper credit
Not referencing images, etc.
Improper paraphrasing
Failing to give a proper reference
Not acknowledging outsourcing (eg.
Data)

22. Plagiarism - Examples
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In 2016, Melania
Trump used
parts of a 2008
speech by
Michelle Obama
at her
Republican
National
Convention
speech

23. Plagiarism - Examples
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JK Rowling has also been
accused of stealing
plotlines from various
stories to write Harry
Potter

24. Spot the plagiarism
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Is this plagiarism?
Timmer asserts that the fundamental role of prices in
a market economy is to serve as signals for
allocating both consumption and investment
resources (Timmer, 2002: 1507). This is important,
because of the…

25. Spot the plagiarism
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Is this plagiarism?
Timmer asserts that the fundamental role of prices
in a market economy is to serve as signals for
allocating both consumption and investment
resources (Timmer, 2002: 1507). This is important,
because of the…
Different font, so copied and pasted
No quotation marks
Reference in wrong place

26. Spot the plagiarism
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Is this plagiarism?
Dorward comments that even the impoverished are not likely
to gain much directly as self-employed producers of trade
agricultural assets, with restricted access to land and capital
and relatively low farm earnings (2004: 4).
Even here the poor are unlikely to gain much directly as self-
employed producers of tradable agricultural commodities,
with limited access to land and capital and relatively low on-
farm incomes – original text

27. Spot the plagiarism
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Is this plagiarism?
Dorward comments that even the impoverished are not likely
to gain much directly as self-employed producers of trade
agricultural assets, with restricted access to land and capital
and relatively low farm earnings (2004: 4).
Even here the poor are unlikely to gain much directly as self-
employed producers of tradable agricultural commodities,
with limited access to land and capital and relatively low on-
farm incomes – original text

28. Spot the plagiarism
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Is this plagiarism?
“In his 1991 review, Sherman Robinson highlights the
theoretical tension between the neoclassical paradigm and
AGE models with financial behaviour” (Hertel, 2002: 1376).

29. Referencing
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Know the Referencing Style that you are using
Make sure what you are referencing, different material types
are displayed differently in the bibliography
Makes sure that your in-text citations match your bibliography
Most important, be CONSISTENT

30. Thank you
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Email: peplerh@sun.ac.za