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Academic Integrity

Integrity

One of values upheld at Guildford Grammar School is that of integrity: adhering to moral and ethical principles even when others are not looking. This value relates directly to your research and referencing practices. You must acknowledge all sources of information that you use by providing references, so that your source can be located. Representing the ideas of others are your own is called plagiarism and is unacceptable at Guildford Grammar School as per the school's Assessment Policy. The school currently uses the APA 7th edition referencing style.

 

Students undertaking research are expected to list all sources of information that they incorporate in their work by including:

  • An in-text reference/citation to indicate where an idea or direct quotation has been taken from. An ‘in-text’ reference, which includes the author, date and sometimes page/paragraph number, is placed in the sentence or below a quotation inside curved brackets.

  • A references list; an alphabetical listing of all sources that have been in-text referenced in the body of your work.

Academic Integrity

General Rules

APA BASICS

APA Style uses in-text citations, not footnotes or endnotes, to direct the reader to a source in the reference list. The only use for footnotes in APA Style is to provide additional content that supplements the text. Endnotes are never used in APA.

APA Style requires reference lists not bibliographies. This means that all of the resources in the reference list have been cited in-text. (A bibliography is a list of all resources that have been cited as well as all resources that may have been consulted but not cited.)

 

ACHIEVEMENT LEVEL

In order to be awarded a top level in the relevant criterion, students must demonstrate the following:

  • The reference list should be placed at the end of the assignment on a new numbered page

  • Label the references list ‘References’, centred in plain text

  • Sources should be varied and appear reliable (ie. primary sources, professional authors, news or feature articles, recent – depending on context, etc.)

  • Sources should be titled using sentence case (only the first word, the word after a colon, and proper nouns are capitalised)

  • Sources should be double spaced

  • The reference list should have a 0.5cm hanging indent

  • Sources are arranged in pure alphabetical order in the reference list:

    • Alphabetise letter by letter

    • Ignore spaces, capitalisation, hyphens, apostrophes, periods, and accent marks

    • When alphabetising titles or group names as authors, go by the first significant word (disregard a, an, the, etc.)

    • Use words to express any number that begins a title (ie. 1914: The great war would appear under ‘N’ for nineteen)

Example of References list

References

 

A&E Television Networks. (2012). The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 

http://www.history.com/topics/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki

 

The atomic bomb and the end of World War II. (2007).

http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/index.htm

 

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (2008). 

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/mpmenu.asp

 

1945: US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima. (2008). 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/6/newsid_3602000/3602189.stm

 

Wainstock, D. D. (2011). The decision to drop the atomic bomb. Enigma Books.