When creating academic and research content, the need to demonstrate current, authoritative and extensive research practices is critical. Equally as critical is the need for correct attribution (citing and referencing) practices to respectfully acknowledge sources of information used to create your own work,
To support academic integrity practices, the Melbourne Polytechnic Library provides the following best-practice guides to ensure compliance to these academic research principles:
Research fundamentals
Referencing fundamentals
Referencing: self-paced instruction
Citing and referencing video
The literature review
Turnitin and academic integrity
Copyright
Melbourne Polytechnic's citing and referencing tool ERNI is also available from the Library's website. ERNI provides examples of citing and referencing for both Harvard and APA7 styles.
