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TEP Guide: Referencing

This guide contains links to resources, services and information specific to students undertaking TEP studies.

Why should you reference?

Referencing is a way of acknowledging the resources you have accessed and used to write your assignments. If you don't reference the resources used, you plagiarize.

Plagiarism is using the ideas or words of another writer as if they were your own, without any form of acknowledgement. This is more than just another form of cheating. It is literary theft. It is stealing someone else's work.

As a student, part of your university education involves learning how to evaluate information thoughtfully in order to use it to create your own original work.

When you use information from articles, books and electronic sources for essays and reports you are expected to acknowledge where your ideas came from. This means more than just documenting the relevant sources. It means acknowledging.

  • Key ideas
  • Direct quotations
  • Paraphrased material (putting it in your own words)
  • Any information you did not think of yourself

This is where using an appropriate referencing style comes in. As a TEP student you will need to use American Psychological Association (APA). You can find more information on Referencing and the APA Style Guide in CDU Library Referencing LibGuide.

Referencing where you got your ideas is vital for showing academic integrity which is a central part of studying at university. Check out the video below to learn more about academic integrity!

What does APA referencing look like?

This sample essay shows how citations appear in an essay and what a reference list looks like.

Mini Videos

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APA Referencing Tool

Sample PowerPoint with APA7 Referencing

Charles Darwin University acknowledges the traditional custodians across the lands on which we live and work, and we pay our respects to Elders both past and present.
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