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This page provides information on writing in an ethical manner. 

The American Psychological Association (APA, 2020), notes, to avoid plagiarism, be sure to provide credit to a source using the author-date citation system, whenever you:

• directly quote a source
• state the ideas of a source in your own words i.e. paraphrase
• reprint or adapt a table or figure, including those freely available on the internet or licensed in Create Commons
• refer to data or data sets
• reprint a long-text passage or commercially copyrighted test item (p. 255).

Providing proper citations involves two parts: an in-text citation, and a complete reference list entry.  "Each work cited in the text must [emphasis added] appear in the reference list, and each work in the reference list must [emphasis added] be cited in the text" (p. 257).

It is unethical to:

• Fabricate citations and/or reference entries

• Hire someone else to write a paper (contract cheating) (p. 256).

American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000

For more information on plagiarism, please see the American Psychological Associations Avoiding Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism document.  https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/avoiding-plagiarism.pdf

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