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PH450 Prof. Marchese: Citing Sources

What is plagiarism?

According to the CUNY Academic Integrity Policy, plagiarism is the act of presenting another person’s ideas, research or writing as your own. Examples of plagiarism include:

  • Copying another person’s actual words or images without the use of quotation marks and footnotes attributing the words to their source.
  • Presenting another person’s ideas or theories in your own words without acknowledging the source.
  • Failing to acknowledge collaborators on homework and laboratory assignments.
  • Internet plagiarism, including submitting downloaded term papers or parts of term papers, paraphrasing or copying information from the internet without citing the source, or “cutting & pasting” from various sources without proper attribution.

Source: https://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices/legal-affairs/policies-procedures/academic-integrity-policy/

How to cite in APA 7th

Last name, First initial. (Date of Publication). Title of article. Title of Journal,

     Vol(Issue), pp. DOI

(Example)

Guo, B., Ma, Z., & Shi, Y. (2019). Properties of conductive polymer hydrogels and their

     application in sensors. Journal of Polymer Science Part B, Polymer Physics, 57, 1606-1621.

     https://doi-org.qbcc.ezproxy.cuny.edu/10.1002/polb.24899

An author at a government agency 

Last name, First initial. (Date). Title. Government Agency. URL.

(Example) 

Merzdorf, M. (2020). Climate change could trigger more landslides in high mountain

     Asia. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/

     goddard/2020/climate-change-could-trigger-more-landslides-in-high-mountain-asia