Library workshop

Question 1

What is plagiarism?

Answer 1

The presentation of another thoughts, words or images and diagrams as though they were your own

Question 2

What is a citation?

Answer 2

Acknowledges use or reference to a source and is found in-text. Citation will take reader to reference list

Question 3

What is a reference?

Answer 3

A reference list will have full biographic details of all the sources cited such as title, author and publishing date

Question 4

Whats the difference between a reference list and a bibliography?

Answer 4

Reference list: only contains information on sources cited in the work above
A bibliography will contain works consulted but not actually cited

Question 5

How do you write a reference?

Answer 5

Vancouver referencing:
Book: Author/ editor, title (italics), series title and number, edition, place of publication, publisher, year of publication

Online article: Author, title of article, title of journal (italics), year of publication, volume number, issue number, page numbers of article, available rom: URL (include [date of access])

Question 6

How would you find out the full title of a journal if you only have an abbreviation?

Answer 6

Go to PubMed and chose ‘NLM catalogue’ from drop down option by search box