The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association provides detailed guidelines for using APA style.
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For lists of changes found in the 7th edition of the APA manual, visit https://apastyle.apa.org/products
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Cites & Sources is a guide to essay writing, formatting, and documenting references using APA style.
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Interactive generative artificial intelligence software, more commonly known as AI and chatbots, include natural language processing (NLP), large language models and its newer version large multimodal model (LLMs), ChatGPT (chat generative pretrained transformer), Siri, Cortana, Google Assistant, Alexa, and many other forms. Your instructor(s) may not deem any of these platforms legitimate. Be cautious if you use it and always cite its use in your references. AI has been known to "hallucinate" answers with gibberish, bias, disinformation, wrong answers, and guess at what it thinks the user wants to hear.
AI generated text cannot be relocated the way that books (ISBN) and articles (DOI) can so consider including a copy of ChatGPT text as an appendix.
ChatGPT is a "large language model"; ChatGPT-4 is a "large multimodal model". Either of these wordings must be used as part of the reference in square brackets. In-text and reference examples:
"quoted text" (OpenAI, 2023)
OpenAI. (2023). ChatGPT (Mar 23 version) {Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com
Source: Seneca College
Academic Integrity Policy at Cambrian College, 2022
Plagiarism:
- The use of material produced by another person without acknowledging that source.
- Plagiarism is distinct from co-operation and collaboration.
- Cambrian College Faculty may expect students to work together on assignments and present the results, either collectively or individually.
Examples of plagiarism include:
- Presenting, in whole or part, material created by someone else, or presenting the ideas, language, or other intellectual property of someone else as your own work without acknowledgement of the source of the material.
- Incorporating direct quotations or large sections of paraphrased material in an assignment without appropriate acknowledgement of the source(s).
- Utilizing paraphrasing remix software of any kind (e.g., Spinbot) rather than paraphrasing according to accepted writing and research practices is considered plagiarism.
- Receiving any assistance from a third party (e.g., proofreader, editor, etc.) that compromises the authenticity of a piece of work. Proofreaders/editors may help with typographical, spelling, punctuation, grammatical, syntactical, and formatting errors, etc.; however, students using a third party to rewrite or add to existing content, to alter arguments or logic, to add or alter references, and/or to check facts, data, calculations, equations, etc. will be considered to have committed Academic Dishonesty.
Cambrian College, 2022
The body of your paper may be complete, but your work is not finished until you properly acknowledge the source of your ideas and inspirations. You are required both to cite your references with the body of your work and to include, as an appendix, a complete list or bibliography of all the materials you have quoted, paraphrased and/or used as source material.
If you choose (intentionally or unintentionally) to deceive your readers by taking responsibility for words or ideas which are not your own, you may be charged with plagiarism.
Moodle has an Academic Integrity Module
Honesty. Trust. Fairness, Respect. Responsibility, Courage.
- What is academic integrity and why is it important
- What academic dishonesty feels like.
- Cambrian College's Academic Integrity Policy
- How to uphold academic integrity and your promise.
If a student completes all the units, a certificate will be provided with your name and a unique code as verification. Your instructor can open a Dropbox in their course Moodle for students to submit these certificates.
Citation & Research Hub
In this hub you will find tips on effective search and critical evaluation techniques, as well as information specific to citing and academic integrity.
- How to research ... finding a topic, searching and evaluating.
- How to Cite
- Academic Integrity ... your responsibilities as a scholar
- Health Sciences Research ... finding and using evidence-based health science information
Plagiarism is the act of presenting the words, ideas, or images of another as your own; it denies authors or creators of content the credit they are due. Whether deliberate or unintentional, plagiarism violates ethical standards in scholarship
Word plagiarism occurs when you use another author’s exact words or phrases without quotation marks.
Idea plagiarism occurs when you present an idea from another source without citing the author and year.
American Psychological Association. (2023). Style grammar and guidelines. https://apastyle.apa.org/
