Pacific Studies: Writing & Citing

Plagiarism

Academic Integrity and Plagiarism 

• Academic integrity and academic misconduct

Academic integrity means being honest in your studies and assessments. Academic integrity is informed by the values of honesty, trust, responsibility, fairness, respect, and courage.

• Plagiarism at Otago 

In New Zealand, high value is placed on full acknowledgement and referencing of the words and ideas of others. If you want to use information that you find elsewhere you must acknowledge where it came from.

• How to avoid plagiarism (Massey University) 

This interactive online tutorial will help you learn what plagiarism is, why and how students get in trouble for it and how to use ideas or quotes from your research effectively.

How to Manage Your References

Managing Your References - Introduction (Citation Library) 

• References -  Introduction 

Know which reference manager you are looking for?  Use the following links to quickly navigate to their tabs in this guide:

• Endnote 
• Endnote videos 

EndNote is software used to manage bibliographic citations. It can be used to organise references, cite them in papers, and automatically generate bibliographies - in the citation style of your choice. 

• Zotero

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself.

• Mendeley

Mendeley is a free reference manager that can help you store, organize, note, share and cite references and research data.

Using AI 

• Generative AI

This LibGuide has some important considerations that you should keep in mind before using Gen-AI in your studies. Cite Write!

• University of Otago AI Policy

  To outline the University’s approach to the use of generative artificial intelligence and autonomous content generation in learning and teaching.