Ethical Guidelines For Researchers

• Research aims should contribute to the good of society
• Research participants must voluntarily consent to research participation
• Researchers should avoid, prevent or minimize harm to others in the widest sense
• The physical, mental and social well-being of the participant should be promoted
• Everyone involved in a project should be treated fairly
• Informed consent should be taken from participants before study
• Researchers should take precautions to protect confidentiality of participants and data
• Researcher should declare any conflicts of interest
• Researcher should properly cite the ideas and work of others

Avoid:

• Fabrication: Making up research data
• Falsification: Manipulation of existing research data
• Plagiarism: Act of passing of somebody else’s ideas, thoughts, pictures, theories, words, or stories as your own

​Citation

Citing is imperative for anything that is not your own, original thought and for facts that are not common knowledge.
Why to Cite?

• Protects intellectual property rights
• Ensures the accuracy of scientific and scholarly knowledge
• Enables others to follow the progression of knowledge over time on specific topic
• Provides support to the idea and evidence for content
• For prevention of plagiarism, which is a serious crime

Citation Style
Citation content can vary depending on the type of source and may include: Book: author(s), book title, publisher, date of publication, and page number(s) if appropriate. Journal: author(s), article title, journal title, date of publication, and page number(s).

Citation Style	Link
APA (American Psychological Association)	​https://apastyle.apa.org/index?_ga=1.57487082.178039789.1457950149
MLA (Modern Language Association)	​https://www.mla.org/MLA-Style
Chicago (University of Chicago Press)	https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

Reference Management Software (Citation Tool)

Reference Management Software	Link	Description
Zotero	​https://www.zotero.org/	Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organizes, cite, and share your research sources. Zotero collects all your research in a single, searchable interface. You can add PDFs, images, audio and video files, snapshots of web pages, and really anything else. Zotero automatically indexes the full-text content of your library, enabling you to find exactly what you’re looking for with just a few keystrokes
​Mendeley	https://www.mendeley.com/?interaction_required=true	Mendeley is a free reference manager, academic social network, web program for managing and sharing research papers, discovering research data and collaborating online. One can generate citations and bibliography in the style of their choice. Also one can search and sort the references, documents and notes in one place.

Copyright And Plagiarism

According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, to "plagiarize" means:

• to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own
• to use (another's production) without crediting the source
• to commit literary theft
• to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source

​Plagiarism Checking tools

Plagiarism Tool	Link	Payment Mode
​Viper ​	https://www.scanmyessay.com/viper-background.php	Free
​Antiplagiarism.net	https://antiplagiarism.net/download/	​Free
Ouriginal (Urkund)	​https://www.ouriginal.com/	​Paid
​Turnitin	https://www.turnitin.com/	Paid
EasyBib-Plagiarism checker	​https://rb.gy/qf1boh	​Free