One of the most important phases, and sometimes neglected, when making an academic work is referencing documentation on which is based. Correctly indicating who and where the ideas, data or images that we use come from is not only the most ethical, and not only offers confidence and credibility, but also helps the development of science as it opens the way for others by facilitating primary sources to the readers so that they can verify the data themselves, refute them, ratify them or use them for their own investigations.

Bibliographic reference managers are very useful tools that will help you to manage references and do them correctly in the format you need.

How to do an academic work

Before starting your academic work, in addition to following the instructions of the faculty members, review the guides that we provide to know how to plan, know where to look for information and how to organize it before preparing the writing and presentation of the results and conclusions.

• How to do an academic o research work

How to cite

The last phase of your work is preparing citations and references, but you will have to collect them and plan from the first moment. If you do it carefully from the beginning (for that the reference managers are perfect) then you can prepare them almost automatically. Avoid headaches and consult the guides that we have collect on how to cite, the citation style, and the reference manager user guides that you choose to use.

• Preparing and interpretation of cites and bibliographical references

Scientific Ethics & Plagiarism

In the same way that new technologies facilitate copy & paste, we also have in hands very agile and effective technologies that make it very so easy to know if a job is a plagiarism or not and to what degree. These tools are useful for students as well as for teachers and researchers. Perhaps the most important lesson that a university student have to learn at university is the importance of acting ethically, correctly elaborating their own ideas and giving credit to those of others.

Some of the most frequent fraudulent practices that should be avoided are the following: