If you are writing an academic or research work (Bachelor's Degree Final Project, master's thesis, dissertation...), you should know how to cite and how to create your bibliography or reference lisBt.
· All information that is not your own (text, photos, maps, charts, tables, datasets, etc.) · Any specific information that is not common knowledge · Any sentence written by another author · Any idea of another person
There are many different citation styles: we will choose one citation style or another depending on our area of study and the target of our work. For example, if the work is to be published in a particular scientific journal we must cite according to their guidelines, if it is for a class work you have to ask the teacher. The following table describes the most used citation styles in the different areas of knowledge according to EndNote (we have added some area):
There are several tools to manage the bibliography automatically. You can consult a comparative chart with the characteristics of the main bibliographic management software available to you: Mendeley, Zotero and EndNote Web
In the UAB, as well as in the rest of the Catalan public universities, we support Mendeley Institucional and Zotero.
Plagiarism is the concealment of the sources used and pass through ours, ideas or fragments of text copied from other works. A violation of intellectual property is incurred. You will find more information in:
Tutorials and pages from other universities: