Providing attributions

Creators have 'moral rights' under the Copyright Act. This includes the right to be correctly attributed as the creator of their work.

When you refer to or use someone else's publication or data in your research or teaching you must always attribute the creator and source. This is also a part of the Academic Integrity obligations you must adhere to at UniSQ.

There are several benefits to providing attributions in your work, including:

identifying and providing credit to the creator
tracking of the impact of research
assist others to find the publication or data
allows for verification of data and research findings
and gives integrity to yourself as a professional and maintains the reputation UniSQ.

Information to include when providing attributions to literary and audio visual works:

Author/creator
Title (if any) of the particular part or piece used
Title of the source work (whatever that work may be: book, film, website, etc.)
Date
Publication/production and or copyright holder details as are evident with the work

Formatting citations for literary and audio visual works:

You can use the referencing style used in your discipline or field of research. The Library’s referencing website provides guidelines on referencing styles.

Information to include when providing attribution to images:

creator
title of the image(s)
source
date
licence details

Formatting citations for images:

The citation format will vary depending on the source of the image. For more information please refer to our Working with Images Guide.

Information to include when providing attributions to data sources:

creator(s) of the dataset
year of publication
title
version (if there is more than one version)
publisher (the organisation or repository hosting the data)
resource type (such as a database, dataset, computational model)
unique identifier for the dataset where available (such as a doi)

Citations must appear in a readable font and must appear on or near the reproduced work. This includes in the credits of your document, presentation or film. It is not enough to only include them in your personal notes.

If the work you want to use is licensed as Creative Commons, you need to attribute the creator of the work and include a link to the licence.

The recommended approach to attributing a Creative Commons work is:

Author, title of work, URL to work, used under Creative Commons Attribution [list licence number], URL to the Creative Commons Licence.

You can also utilise the Creative Commons Attribution Builder if you require assistance.

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