As a part of an academic community, it is important that you show the reader where you have used someone else’s ideas or words. Failure to properly reference using the Harvard system may make the reader think that you are cheating by claiming someone else’s work as your own.
In the academic environment, we call this plagiarism and it is seen as a very serious offence. Please remember that plagiarism is not just when you directly copy words from another student’s or expert’s work. Plagiarism also occurs when you re-word someone else’s ideas in your own work, paraphrase, and you do not give credit to the original source.
When working on an assignment it is always a good idea to make a note of anything you’ve used to help you as you go along, this will make the referencing and bibliography at the end much easier!
You need to reference in two places:
* In-text which is known as a citation and only
includes authors last name, year of publication and
page number if relevant.
* At the end of your work, with the full details for
the source in a reference list or bibliography.