Reference Management Software and Plagiarism Prevention by V. Sriram in Workshop on Research Methodology, Sree Neelakanta Govt. Sanskrit College, Pattambi. India. 2nd February 2019.

1. Reference Management Software
and
Plagiarism Prevention
V. Sriram
Chief LibrarianChief Librarian
Centre for Development Studies
Thiruvananthapuram, India
E-mail: vsrirams@gmail.com
Workshop on Research Methods
Sree Neelakanta Govt. Sanskrit College, Pattambi. India.
2nd February 2019.

2. Contents
 Reference Management Software
 Plagiarism
 Plagiarism detecting / checking software

3. Avenues of Publication
 Journal article
 Article in a collection
 Contribution to
newspapers
Commentaries
 Book
 Book editorial
 Book section / chapter
 Book review
 WP / OP / Notes Commentaries
 Internal or external report
 Dissertation / Thesis
 WP / OP / Notes
 Popular publications
 Blogs / Wikis

4. Managing Literature and References
Systematic gathering of sources:
 Using proper tools to gather literature – Google
Scholar, Journal Databases, …
 Creating bibliographic records, summary, notes,
comments, and making it error free
 Organizing by topic, subject, research area…
 Linking the soft copy full text for easy retrieval
 Assigning a unique primary-key for print items.

5. Reference management software
Need:
 Enhance the presentation
 Good practice to give due credit
 Avoid plagiarism
Benefits:
 search easily for a particular reference to which
you need to refer back
 print or save lists of references
 insert citations into your document and
automatically produce a bibliography in whatever
style you require

6. Zotero
 Free – Open Source
 Platform independent
 Works Offline and Online
 Over 9333 referencing styles
www.zotero.org
 Over 9333 referencing styles
 Data Sharing
 26 fields
 34 Types of Sources
 Linking full text / pdf
 Integration with MS-Office / Open Office

7. Zotero - Installation

8. Zotero - Installation

10. Open Zotero
 Zotero Desktop Icon
 Works Offline and Online

11. Collecting References

12. Collecting References

13. Adding items

14. Organizing items

15. Drag & Drop Items

16. Items metadata

17. Notes

18. Notes

19. Tags

20. Tags

21. Attachments

22. Searching Items

23. Zotero – Word Add - in

24. Insert Citation

25. Insert Bibliography

26. Create Zotero Account

27. Zotero Login

28. Synchronize

29. Settings

30. Backup

31. Conclusion
 Organizes your research materials
 Long term storage
 Reduces data entry and formatting
 Helps to develop your research Helps to develop your research

32. Plagiarism
 Copying large portions from other publications
 Missing out punctuation in a citation
 Submitting a publication that you didn't write
 Copying words or ideas from someone else's work,
without giving credit
Giving incorrect information about the source of a Giving incorrect information about the source of a
quotation
 Copying sentence structure but changing words
around, without giving credit
 Copying from your own work
Source: http://www.scanmyessay.com/plagiarism/what-is-plagiarism.php

33. Plagiarism Check
 Turnitin – http://turnitin.com/
 Urkund - http://www.urkund.com/
 Viper - http://scanmyessay.com/

34. Turnitin

35. Urkund

36. UGC Academic Integrity Act 2018
Clause 7. Similarity checks for exclusion
from Plagiarism
 The similarity checks for plagiarism shall
exclude the following:
i. All quoted work reproduced with all i. All quoted work reproduced with all
necessary permission and/or attribution.
 ii. All references, bibliography, table of
content, preface and acknowledgements.
 iii. All generic terms, laws, standard symbols
and standards equations.

37. UGC Academic Integrity Act 2018
Clause 7. Similarity checks for exclusion
from Plagiarism
Note
The research shall be based on original ideas, which
shall include abstract, summary, hypothesis,shall include abstract, summary, hypothesis,
observations, results, conclusions and
recommendations only and shall not have any
similarities.
It shall exclude a common knowledge or coincidental
terms, up to fourteen (14) consecutive words.

38. Visibility
 Research Gate http://www.researchgate.net/
 Website / Blog - Wordpress, Blogger
 Multimedia Storage – You Tube
 Presentations, Notes – Slide Share
Social networking – Facebook, Twitter, Social networking – Facebook, Twitter,
LinkedIn, …
 Kerala Scholars
http://messenger.keralascholars.org/

39. Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!
V. Sriram
Email: vsrirams@gmail.com