Every scholarly discipline has a preferred format or style of referencing their publications. The style used in the School of Hospitality and Tourism is the Harvard style, also known as the "author-date" style.
The Harvard system is made up of 3 components:
A citation should be used within the text of your work if you:
Details provided are brief and include the author's surname, the year of publication, and the page number.
e.g. According to Reilly (2006, p. 66) theories are tested by sample statistics.
There are a number of details that can be included in a reference depending on the type of source (i.e. a book, journal, conference paper, etc). As many of the following items as possible should be included:
Reilly, J. (2006) Using Statistics. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.
Randler, C. (2010) 'The early bird really does get the worm' , Harvard Business Review, 88 (7/8), pp. 30-31.
Ireland. Expert Group on Future Skills Needs (2009) Future Skills Requirements of the Food and Beverage Sector. Dublin: Forfas.
Guy, P. D. (2009) As Mirrors are lonely: a lacanian reading of three Irish novelists. Unpublished PhD thesis. Tallaght Institute of Technology.
Electronic sources can include web pages, online journals, cd-roms, email etc. It can be quite difficult to reference these sources as the details provided can vary dramatically but as many of the following as possible should be included:
MABS (2010) A Guide to Managing your Money and Dealing with Debt. Available at http://www.mabs.ie/publications/leaflets/managing_money.pdf (Accessed: 07 October 2010)
Myers, M.P., Yang, J. & Stampe, P. (1999) 'Visualization and functional analysis of a maxi-K channel (mSlo) fused to green fluorescent protein (GFP)', EJB: Electronic Journal of Biotechnology, vol. 2, no. 3, [Online]. Available at: http://www.ejb.org/content/vol2/issue3/full/3/index.html (Accessed 21 May 2002).
For more information, try this TU Dublin Harvard Quick Guide: https://www.dit.ie/media/library/documents/aungierstreet/Harvard%20Quick%20Guide%20(1).pdf
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Plagiarism means using work done by other people, and trying to pass it off as your own work instead of attributing it to its real author.
Examples :
It is legitimate to use other people's work as long as you clearly state it is their work.
This is done by citing the author in the body of the text and including the article/book details in your bibliography, and by placing the author's words between " " quotation marks.
TU Dublin uses a plagiarism checker called SafeAssign. This is able to pick out and flag up pieces of text which are likely to come from other pieces of work. Students may use SafeAssign to check their own work before submitting it for assessment. A draft piece of coursework will not be "done" for plagiarism, but a final submitted piece of coursework can be.
Being caught plagiarising can have serious consequences.
The General Assessment Regulations outlines what procedures may be invoked in such cases:
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