Agriculture Librarian
Avoiding Plagiarism
"What is Plagiarism?
Nearly everyone understands that copying passages verbatim from another writer's work and representing them as one's own work constitute plagiarism. Yet plagiarism involves much more. At LSU plagiarism is defined to include any use of another's work and submitting that work as one's own. This means not only copying passages of writing or direct quotations but also paraphrasing or using structure or ideas without citation. Learning how to paraphrase and when and how to cite is an essential step in maintaining academic integrity." From LSU Student Advocacy & Accountability
Here are some links to help you avoid plagiarism when working on your papers.
- American Medical Association Quick GuideQuick style guide for the American Medical Association. This is based on the rules from the 11th edition. This handout is created by the Pharmacy liaison librarian Amy Chatfield at the University of Southern California.
- AMA Style (11th ed): Citing Your Sources 11th edition (2020) AMA styleThis research guide was created by Amy Chatfield at the University of Southern California.
In the AMA citation style, journal titles are required to be abbreviated. It can be confusing determining the title of a journal from a citation AND how to properly cite the journal's abbreviated title. However, the National Library of Medicine has created a nifty database to help you with this.
- Medical Journal Title AbbreviationsEnter the journal name, MEDLINE abbreviation, a word from the title, or ISSN. This database uses the "standard abbreviation", as defined by ISSN and used also by BIOSIS and CASSI. The whole List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus (Pubmed) also available, in PDF format.
- Journal Abbreviation Resources on the WebUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign created this wonderful guide to help students find journal abbreviations on the web.
