CELCIS Style Guide

How to Write Well and Avoid Plagiarism

• How WMU defines plagiarism and its consequences 2m20s
• Why care about plagiarism? Who is harmed when we plagiarize?  3m02s
• Graduate Students and Source Text Use  6m04s
• Why Do Students Copy Sources?  2m24s 
• What Counts as Plagiarism?   How much do you need to change before it is not plagiarism? 3m46s
• Non-native English Speakers and Unique Issues with Source Text Use 2m30s
• Patchwriting Watch how one scholarly article is copied in other scholarly articles over several years. 2m27s 
• Writing Well (and Avoiding Plagiarism)  10m22s
• When Is It OK to Copy? Yes! There are times when it is OK to copy short passages in academic writing.  0m51s

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Format

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume number(issue number), pages. https://doi.org/xx.xxx/yyyy

Example

Gottvall, M., Brunell, C., Eldebo, A., Metso, F. J., Jirwe, M., & Carlsson, T. (2023). Post‐migration psychosocial experiences and challenges amongst LGBTQ+ forced migrants: A meta‐synthesis of qualitative reports. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 79(1), 358–371. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.15480

Notes

• Author's names are ordered: Last, First Initial
• Only include the year for the date
• The title of the article is in sentence case: Only the first letter and any proper nouns are capitalized
• The journal title is italicized and in Title Case
• The volume number is also italicized
• The issue number is in (parentheses)
• The DOI can be formatted as a link (https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.15480) or as a number (DOI: 10.1111/jan.15480). If there is no DOI, use a permalink from the Library Search item record or the database you found it in.
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